Latest Machinelearnings Podcast Episodes
Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Medicine and the Machine - November 28, 2023 21:07 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: ...
His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf
Medicine and the Machine - October 31, 2023 14:26 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsHe's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/feat...
Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will
Medicine and the Machine - October 02, 2023 14:09 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsDr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine...
Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine
Medicine and the Machine - September 07, 2023 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsA new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric J. Topol, ...
How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic
Medicine and the Machine - August 15, 2023 17:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please vis...
Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine
Medicine and the Machine - July 25, 2023 15:40 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric J. Topo...
AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious
Medicine and the Machine - June 27, 2023 16:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsInformation pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric J. Topol, MD, Direct...
Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'
Medicine and the Machine - June 07, 2023 14:18 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsDr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://w...
There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care
Medicine and the Machine - May 01, 2023 15:04 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsDr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/...
Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation
Medicine and the Machine - March 15, 2023 14:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsShould our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods? This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/f...
How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again
Medicine and the Machine - February 21, 2023 19:15 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please vis...
Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable
Medicine and the Machine - January 18, 2023 20:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/...
To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air
Medicine and the Machine - December 22, 2022 19:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsTwo-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this...
How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials
Medicine and the Machine - November 23, 2022 19:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsDr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/featur...
How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass
Medicine and the Machine - October 13, 2022 19:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsStephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/mac...
The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19
Medicine and the Machine - September 21, 2022 14:04 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsVirologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric ...
We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID
Medicine and the Machine - September 09, 2022 16:12 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAnother COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/...
Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?
Medicine and the Machine - July 27, 2022 21:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAn AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to co...
Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella
Medicine and the Machine - June 23, 2022 18:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAbraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://ww...
It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets
Medicine and the Machine - June 15, 2022 16:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/mach...
How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain
Medicine and the Machine - May 20, 2022 14:06 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsPain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please...
Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead
Medicine and the Machine - April 21, 2022 17:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsStanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/fe...
Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'
Medicine and the Machine - April 08, 2022 18:51 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWhy we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine ...
The Medical Model Doesn't Work for Mental Health
Medicine and the Machine - March 25, 2022 20:15 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsFormer NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric J. ...
Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now
Medicine and the Machine - March 09, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEpidemiologist-engineer Michael Mina thinks diagnostics belong in the hands of the people. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine Eric J. Topol, ...
'Historic Botched Job': The Narrative Mechanics of Failed COVID Communication From CDC and Elsewhere
Medicine and the Machine - February 25, 2022 19:25 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsRandy Olson on what science can learn from Hollywood about communicating with the masses. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969151 Eric J. Topol, MD, Di...
COVID Vaccines for the Under 5's: The 'Finish Line' We Need
Medicine and the Machine - February 17, 2022 19:09 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratings'Your Local Epidemiologist' Katelyn Jetelina translates the COVID science for millions. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. Eric J. Topol, MD; Abraham Verghese, MD; Katelyn K. Jetelina, PhD, MPH Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) Newsletter: https://yourlocalepidemi...
Dr. Glaucomflecken on Why We Can All Use a Laugh Right Now
Medicine and the Machine - January 13, 2022 16:11 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsTwo bouts with cancer and a cardiac arrest at age 35 haven't stopped this ophthalmologist-comedian from becoming a social media phenomenon for hilariously poking fun at medicine and himself. This podcast is intended for US health professionals only. Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Trans...
2021: Where We Succeeded, Where We Failed in Pandemic Year Two
Medicine and the Machine - December 22, 2021 20:20 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEric Topol and Abraham Verghese reflect on 2021's extraordinary podcast guests, and how we excelled in science and healthcare but were tripped up by the vagaries of human behavior. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. For more episodes of Medicine and the Machine ...
Former White House COVID Advisor: We Can All Safely Experience Joy This Holiday Season
Medicine and the Machine - December 14, 2021 19:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAndy Slavitt believes we've made real progress, despite overselling vaccines and the public's dismay with rapidly changing science. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medi...
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