641 - What Can We Learn About Medicine from What Iconic Sci-Fi Movies Get Wrong?
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English - July 26, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid covid19 education globalhealth medicine coronavirus health novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
There’s a paradox in sci-fi movies: Even in the most futuristic, technologically advanced societies depicted in film, main characters often die because of a lack of basic medical care. Two movie fans, Johns Hopkins ICU physician Dr. Jack Iwashyna and his son, Sage, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about some scenes in the Star Wars and Aliens franchises and how they can be used to appreciate the gaps that remain in health care today.