1032 What the Dickens

In this episode Dr's J and Santhosh do a literary dive into the works of Charles Dickens!. Along the way they cover his medical documentation, public health works, epidemiology, contribution to the invention of pediatric hospitals, his health and death, the pickwick papers, tuberculosis, Tourette's, torticollis, stroke and aphasia, the nutritional value of gruel and more! So sit back and relax as yes you can have some more medical Dickens!

Further Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17wwln_diagnosis.t.html

https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=626114059

https://www.bmj.com/content/2/4955/1553

https://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2722.full 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704069/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1884693/pdf/bmj00105-0032.pdf

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