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History of Nurse Practitioners

EMS: History, Myth and Media - September 04, 2023 01:00 - 15 minutes
Second part concerning Advanced Practice Providers

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History of Physician Assistants

EMS: History, Myth and Media - September 03, 2023 18:00 - 14 minutes
First of two episodes concerning Advanced Practice Providers

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Lights and Siren

EMS: History, Myth and Media - August 28, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes
All ambulances should run with lights flashing and siren blaring, right? Maybe not. 

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Burnout

EMS: History, Myth and Media - July 16, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes
COVID has had an enormous effect on EMS and Emergency Medicine. I discuss burnout of health care workers.

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EMS - Myths 2

EMS: History, Myth and Media - May 20, 2022 16:00 - 14 minutes
The second episode covering some common misconceptions about EMS and Emergency Medicine.

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EMS - Myths 1

EMS: History, Myth and Media - May 13, 2022 18:00 - 17 minutes
Some common misconceptions persist about EMS and Emergency Departments. This first in the series discusses some of those myths.

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The Alphabet Courses

EMS: History, Myth and Media - March 18, 2022 19:00 - 14 minutes
History of various short courses in emergency care, CPR, ACLS, ATLS and others.

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Is the Scene Safe?

EMS: History, Myth and Media - February 11, 2021 19:00 - 10 minutes
Emergency workers rush into dangerous situations. This episode addresses the response to the question “Is the Scene Safe?” Tactical EMS and response to contagious patients is discussed.

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Minijawn Seven

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - January 29, 2021 06:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
A quick check-in this week, with some feedback on our SUDS episode courtesy of our favorite local medical examiner, and where we are (figuratively but also literally) with our newest museum exhibition, Unseen. Also, we're hiring a digital content intern! Come play with us... Our newest exhibit,...

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Episode 7: Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome & Arsenic Wallpaper

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - January 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this exciting episode, Nancy and Mike talk night hags, why monsters are sexist, babies that don't love hookah, Nancy's sister (a different one this time) and how she treats her gentleman callers, rebuilding your deck, dancing yourself to death, and Ireland, for some reason.

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Minijawn Five

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - January 08, 2021 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
WE ATEN'T DEAD and if you got that reference, congrats, you are also a giant nerd. We check in very quickly to let you know where we've been, and when the museum is reopening! Plus, a brief discussion of the Philadelphia accent, men yelling at or at least near Nancy, and our friends over at the ...

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Episode 6: Tuberculosis and Beauty & The Lazarevich Diaphanoscope

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - November 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this fortnight's exciting episode we talk about how having a terminal lung disease makes you sexy, and also a very early, really extremely uncomfortable imaging technology, with special guest Hannah Polasky, MSc of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Also, we talk about salad tongs for babie...

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Minijawn Four

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - November 20, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
Another mini episode with corrections, updates, and events. We talk about our impending COVID-related shutdown, an upcoming event where Nancy gets electrocuted, our friend Jill Knapp's amazing rendition of that song that's stuck in my head forever now, and a few other things.

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Episode 5: Chimney Sweep's Scrotum & Donating Your Body to (Goth) Science

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - November 13, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this fortnight's exciting episode, we talk chimney sweep's scrotum (and a bonus malady, mule spinner's scrotum!), and how you can donate your body to us or other cool places after you die. This week we welcome special guest Rhiannon Watson, forensic toxicologist, formerly of the body farm at ...

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Minijawn Three

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - November 06, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this week's minijawn we have corrections and clarifications Also we discuss the three genders: smoking, flaming or glowing poop.  As well, we go over why the bodies in Poltergeist (and many other movies) were actually real human skeletons, and not replica props as most would think, buying Bon...

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Episode 4: Phossy Jaw & Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - October 30, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this fortnight's exciting episode we talk about:  Necrosis of the jaw due to phosphorous poisoning, and a controversial 20th century psychiatrist. Also, playing with matches, heavy metal, glow-in-the-dark poop, not the guitarist from Queen, why Nancy used to smell like egg farts, labor rights...

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History of Resuscitation

EMS: History, Myth and Media - October 28, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes
Snatching someone from the jaws of death! The history of the most dramatic aspect of EMS - resuscitation.

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History of Medical Specialties

EMS: History, Myth and Media - October 26, 2020 23:00 - 16 minutes
How did we get to most doctors being specialists? How did Emergency Medicine become a specialty? This episode covers all that.

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Minijawn Two

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - October 23, 2020 05:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
Some feedback on our last episode, plus invitations to upcoming events, and also a teaser for the next full episode of My Favorite Malady! Show notes: Not a whole lot this week! Just this link to our upcoming events page: http://muttermuseum.org/events

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Episode 3: Puerperal Fever & Giant Hogweed Phototoxicity

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - October 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
In this fortnight's exciting episode, we talk with special guest Dr. Marcia D. Nichols of the University of Minnesota Rochester about food courts, handwashing, why you would dress a sexy frog in pink taffeta pants, the supernatural power of the female imagination, and why delivering babies when ...

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Minijawn One

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - October 09, 2020 03:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratings
Some corrections, clarifications, invitations to upcoming events, and also a teaser for the next full episode of My Favorite Malady! Show notes: Jawn! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn The Dark Archives! http://muttermuseum.org/events/dark-archives-book-launch-with-megan-rosenbloom/ Watch T...

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Episode 2: Trench Mouth & "Weird" Gonorrhea

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - October 02, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
On this fortnight's exciting episode: Nancy's sister catches a disease from World War 1, so we make fun of her! Also, Mike talks about getting an uncommon disease that made an ER doctor very excited. Finally, we discuss the joys of mixing caffeine and alcohol, and bone flutes. The Oxford comma w...

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Episode 1: Blackwater Fever & The No-Nose Clubs of 17th Century London

My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast - September 11, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 29 ratings
Thanks for tuning into the premiere of My Favorite Malady with Mike & Nancy, a Mütter Museum podcast! On this week's exciting episode: The mysteries of Blackwater Fever. Cocktails! Colonialism! Racism! The Vatican! Also, why there were entire clubs in 17th-century London for people with no nose...

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Medical Education History

EMS: History, Myth and Media - September 09, 2020 15:00 - 16 minutes
The training to become a doctor - from 500 BCE to today. From Hippocrates to how doctors are trained in 2020.

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ER - The TV show

EMS: History, Myth and Media - August 23, 2020 19:00 - 9 minutes
One of the most popular media depictions of Emergency Medicine, the show ER ran for 15 seasons. Although it had its flaws, it showed many of the most exciting aspects of working in an Emergency Department.

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USA History of EMTs and Paramedics

EMS: History, Myth and Media - May 24, 2020 17:00 - 10 minutes
The last 50 years or so include the entire history of the modern EMS system, including EMTs and Paramedics.

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EMERGENCY! The TV Show

EMS: History, Myth and Media - April 19, 2020 15:00 - 9 minutes
The first TV show to portray EMS and introduce the public to paramedics - EMERGENCY! ran from 1972 to 1977.

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Baron Larrey 4 - The Ambulance

EMS: History, Myth and Media - April 18, 2020 19:00 - 14 minutes
The final episode in the Larrey series. The ambulance from 1487 to the present. 

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Baron Larrey 3 - Triage

EMS: History, Myth and Media - April 13, 2020 19:00 - 11 minutes
Of the innovations Larrey brought to EMS and emergency care, triage is certainly one of the most impactful to care in both military and civilian emergency situations.

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Baron Larrey 2 - Field Hospitals

EMS: History, Myth and Media - April 07, 2020 22:00 - 16 minutes
The progressive advancement of military field hospitals and the care of military wounded from 2000 years ago through the present time. I have to cite the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History website for much of the information in this episode.