22 - The Assassination

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we've been discussing this for over 50 years. In this ep ...  Show more

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to build the first truly effective clinical dec ...  Show more

Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been shot today, would he have lived? A what-if story about homicides and medical care and the moral consequences of a world where trauma surgeons have gotten really, really good at wha ...  Show more

James Garfield gets shot, and some doctors stick their nasty fingies in the wound. Yum! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

On this episode, we cover the assassination of John F. Kennedy from beginning to end, including all of the strange things that had to happen for the president to wind up dead that day along with more than a few busted myths. 

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📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we’ll take a closer look at one of the most shocking and tragic moments in modern American history: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This event not only shook the United States but also left the entire world in mourning and myst ...  Show more