Proto Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Podcast: Diagnosing the Long Dead Jul 08, 2021

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New data may solve two of the most famous “cold cases” in medical history—the deaths of Ernest Shackleton and Edgar Allen Poe.

Podcast: Do Better by Disabled Patients Apr 08, 2021

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People who live with a disability are no stranger to overcoming obstacles. But the bias of a clinician shouldn’t be one of them.

Podcast: The Research Year That Was Feb 12, 2021

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Medical research labs have faced a difficult stretch of closed buildings and competing priorities. Yet they have also produced milestone discoveries—and not only on COVID-19.

Podcast: Telemedicine’s Moment Nov 25, 2020

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The ascendance of virtual and distanced care has taken place with extraordinary speed. Lee Schwamm discusses which innovations are likely to stick and some bumps in the road ahead.

Podcast: A Tale of Two Pandemics Jun 16, 2020

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The crises of racism and COVID-19 overlap and reinforce one another. What steps can medicine take to make the pandemic response more just?

Podcast: The Good Life Under Lockdown? Apr 23, 2020

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Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger’s TED talk about what makes a good life has been viewed more than 32 million times. Can those rules be applied to quarantining as well?

Podcast: The Examination of a Poem Mar 06, 2020

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How can literature serve medicine? An interview with the first “writer-in-residence” at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Podcast: Medicine on the Mountain Jan 09, 2020

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The body can behave strangely at high altitudes. What can that teach researchers about life at sea level?

Podcast: The Important, Impossible Role of the Chinese Graduate Researcher Sep 19, 2019

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Scientific collaborations with China are the latest front in the trade war. Foreign students are torn between two nations—and wrestling with a mental health crisis.

Podcast: A Battle Plan for Sepsis Jul 18, 2019

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Hospitals get a step closer to conquering a deadly disease that most people have never heard of.