Disease Death and Doctors

By The Honorable Doctor John and The less Honorable Doctor Guy

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Episodes: 30

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This is a storytelling podcast that discusses the NON-chronological history of medicine (Because going in order sucks). A discussion of diseases, discoveries, and the doctors that left their mark (and sometimes scar) on the field of medicine. Things are going to get weird. Episodes released twice monthly for your auditory consumption. Music: The Road (Punk Rock Opera). Tom Podell (digital alteration of Wellcome Library historical watercolor CC by 4.0)

Episode Date
Ambroise Pare. Barber. Surgeon.
Apr 11, 2022
Chagas Disease. It's worse than cooties.
Mar 07, 2022
Doctor Daniel Hale Williams. Fixing Broken Hearts since 1893
Feb 21, 2022
Marco. Polio.
Jan 24, 2022
Doctoring on the Oregon Trail. You have dysentery. Again.
Jan 10, 2022
William "The King of Surgery" Halsted. Toot. Toot.
Dec 27, 2021
Would anyone like a DEET and Tonic with their Malaria?
Dec 10, 2021
That's Mass Hysterical. Not all uteri who wander are lost.
Nov 26, 2021
Wait... Anthrax isn't just the name of a heavy metal band!?
Nov 12, 2021
Scurvy. RRRRRR. The harrowing tale of limes and seamen (Or... seamen and limes)
Oct 29, 2021
Season 2 Teaser: We're Back.....
Sep 29, 2021
Yellow Fever and Napoleon's Epic Fail
Jan 01, 2021
The Greatest Plague of Marseille. ever.
Dec 18, 2020
Rabies. Because nothing is more terrifying than water.
Dec 04, 2020
Beast Milk and other Medical Contributions of Roman Antiquity
Nov 20, 2020
Greek Medicine of Antiquing. We mean Antiquity. (...A skosh better than the middle ages)
Nov 06, 2020
The origin of ole' Johnny Hopkins
Oct 23, 2020
Bar keep, some Syphilis please. I like mine Painless. And Raised.
Oct 09, 2020
You Got Worms! A Deep fried southern tale about nature's most badass parasite
Sep 25, 2020
The other John Snow and Love in the Time of Cholera
Sep 11, 2020
Tuberculosis: TB or not TB. That is the question.
Aug 28, 2020
Smallpox: The opposite of Large Pox
Aug 14, 2020
The Red Market: "Tell him I'm very grateful. But make sure I get his good kidney"
Jul 31, 2020
That Sh!t is Cray Cray: The Insane history of the treatment of Mental Illness
Jul 17, 2020
There's Something About... "Typhoid Mary"
Jul 03, 2020
Ebola: Keeping Hazmat suits fly since 1976
Jun 18, 2020
Kuru: "Like Thanksgiving dinner, but with more protein"
Jun 05, 2020
History of the Medical Cadaver: "Hey that looks like my mum!"
May 20, 2020
The Black Death (PART 2): Why the Middles Ages wish they had a mulligan (and PPE)
May 08, 2020
The Black Death (PART 1): How Mankind's Tender date with disease led to marriage
May 08, 2020