Medicine and the Machine

• Dr. Glaucomflecken on Why We Can All Use a Laugh Right Now   Two 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.
  Medscape, January 13, 2022
• 2021 in Review   Eric 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.
  Medscape, December 22, 2021
• Former White House COVID Advisor: We Can All Safely Experience Joy This Holiday Season   Andy Slavitt believes we've made real progress, despite overselling vaccines and the public's dismay with rapidly changing science.
  Medscape, December 14, 2021
• Dr Kimberly Manning on Twitter Teaching, Vaccine Deliberation, and Her Own 'Secret Sauce’   Her message to academia: If you really want diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine, put your money where your mouth is.
  Medscape, November 09, 2021
• How Pediatrician Rachel Pearson Brings Along Vaccine-Hesitant Parents   Talking about how being vaccinated will let school-aged kids get back to normal life is paramount.
  Medscape, November 01, 2021
• Dr Ebony Hilton Wants to Talk Herself Out of a Job   If you want her to stop talking about racial and gender disparities in healthcare, fix the system.
  Medscape, October 20, 2021
• How Machines Bring Humanity Back to Medicine   Dr Eric Topol explores the next 20 years of progress in artificial intelligence with expert Kai-Fu Lee.
  Medscape, October 04, 2021
• Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature'   Jeremy Farrar explains why we must expect new variants, and why he’d like to give away his booster shot.
  Medscape, September 22, 2021
• A Leading Virologist Reveals His Two 'Nightmare' Viruses   Virologist Florian Krammer talks about how much we should worry about the Delta virus and the truth about antibody tests.
  Medscape, September 14, 2021
• 'Coma' Author Robin Cook on Medical Thrillers and Healthcare   With his latest book, 'Viral,' Robin Cook says he's trying to entertain people and get them to think about the parts of healthcare that aren't working.
  Medscape, August 30, 2021
• Google's Head of AI Talks About the Future of the EHR   Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google, talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about using technology to improve people's lives. And, he says, a lot of this started with cat videos.
  Medscape, August 20, 2021
• Simplifying COVID Immunology, One Metaphor at a Time   With tales of Post-it Notes and fire trucks, Shane Crotty explains COVID immunology and vaccine responses for scientists and nonscientists alike.
  Medscape, August 03, 2021
• To End Burnout, Doctors Must Change the Culture of Medicine   The culture of medicine is an invisible force with the strength of gravity that keeps the profession stuck, Robert Pearl says. To move forward, physicians have to own their role and drive change.
  Medscape, July 09, 2021
• The Medical Students Who Shunned Fear and Dove Into COVID Care   In her new book 'Life on the Line,' Emma Goldberg shines a spotlight on 'the absolutely invaluable work of healthcare providers' during the COVID crisis in New York.
  Medscape, June 25, 2021
• Walter Isaacson on CRISPR and the People Behind the Revolution   Talking with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese, Walter Isaacson describes the stories behind his latest book, 'The Codebreaker,' including how he contrived a Zoom meeting between key players who'd drifted apart.
  Medscape, June 18, 2021
• Imagine the Worst, or We're at Our Own Peril: Osterholm   At home with politicians and news anchors, CIDRAP's Michael Osterholm shares three rules of science and the media, and explains why policy and science belong together like chocolate and peanut butter.
  Medscape, May 14, 2021
• After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID   Our problem with vaccines is that we talk about people instead of talking with people and listening to their perspectives.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021
• Peter Hotez Talks Russia, Lady Gaga, and the Antiscience Movement   Peter Hotez regularly counters antiscience rhetoric. He tells Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the movement cost lives in COVID-19, and that as clinicians, speaking up for science is ‘our lane.’
  Medscape, April 21, 2021
• Frieden on CDC Fumbles, Blood Clots, and Fixing Our COVID Approach   In a conversation with Eric Topol, former CDC director Tom Frieden discusses the agency's response to COVID-19, how the world got lucky in some ways, and his effort to improve global health.
  Medscape, April 15, 2021
• Roberto Burioni on Conquering COVID and Charming the Skeptics   Virologist-author Roberto Burioni talks about the relevance of variants, why vaccines are our ticket out of this nightmare, and how best to deal with science and vaccine skeptics.
  Medscape, April 02, 2021