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The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine.

Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major battles - Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg - that produced unprecedented numbers of casualties.

When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful–unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to kill than cure… As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape.

Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit.

„Teaching Knee Surgeons with AI“is a new podcast exploring how modern AI-powered tools are transforming the way we search for, analyze, and present scientific evidence. Across the internet, an increasing number of professional tools now allow us to research scientific literature in a more structured, transparent, and objective way. This opens up a unique opportunity: to examine complex medical and scientific questions based on openly accessible evidence, while deliberately minimizing author-driven opinions and implicit bias. In orthopedics—and in medical research in general—expert ...

""With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation—a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the unsettling ethical issues that haunt this miraculous lifesaving treatment. Mezrich's...

Welcome to Daily Notes to Self — a gentle voice in your day, offering a minute of calm, care, and clarity. Each day brings a new affirmation for someone who needs it — students, dads, friends, moms, grandparents, or just… you. Press play when life feels heavy or rushed. These soft reminders are here to ground you, one breath at a time. 💛 Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/drananditamathur If my voice brought you a moment of calm, you can support me here.

When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents, Collins felt inadequate and unprepared.

Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like this: restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These “solutions” do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms.

A gripping expose of the murky underbelly of the Indian healthcare system 95 per cent of healthcare facilities have less than five workers 30 million people are pushed into poverty by healthcare costs 9 lakh C-sections are preventable 7.04 lakh children under the age of five die of pneumonia and...

A National Bestseller An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their...

The Reveal Room is a fresh, honest look inside the world of plastic surgery and aesthetics. Each episode features conversations with the providers of Plastic Surgeons of Lexington, diving into all things aesthetics - procedures, non-surgical treatments, recovery, expectations, trends and more! Each episode pulls back the curtain on topics patients are curious about but don't always know how to ask. We want you to feel confident about your aesthetic decisions. After all, our goal is for all patients to Emerge Confident. You'll hear directly from board-certified plastic surgeons and trusted ...

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery...

""I read this book... it worked. My autoimmune disease is gone and I'm 37 pounds lighter in my pleather."" —Kelly Clarkson Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free diets in an...

Dr Alex Alexander has delivered over 5000 babies during his career, helped thousands of people overcome infertility through IVF and gynaecological surgery, and has lectured the next generation of doctors in clinical practice at the University of Queensland. In this podcast, Dr Alex Alexander will use expertise in his three fields — fertility, gynaecology and obstetrics —to give some clarity and hope to people facing infertility, as well as share his experience with managing high-risk pregnancies and complex gynaecological concerns.

Revolutionary Surgeons offers an integrated picture of surgeons as political and military leaders of the American Revolution.

This is the place where healthcare workers come to be seen and heard. We discuss all the things that healthcare workers experience and the struggles that many healthcare workers deal with. This is where we get to be human beings and not human machines.

A raw, reality-style podcast following Dr. Frances Mei Hardin’s final months as a surgeon and her bold leap into the unknown. Through solo episodes and unfiltered guest convos, it captures the chaos, clarity, and courage of walking away from a “dream career” to choose something better. For high-achievers, burnt-out professionals, and anyone ready to rewrite the rules - this isn’t just a show. It’s a permission slip. Find more info about Surgeon, Interrupted and other shows on the Hippocratic Collective at hippocratic-collective.com

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Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital. Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in...

Dr. Ivan Brodsky is not your average doctor; he transcends traditional medicine by addressing the deep-seated spiritual ailments that plague the human soul. With a profound understanding of the supernatural, mastery of hypnosis, and an array of scientific tools that connect the realms of the living and the dead, we follow Brodsky through the eyes of his assistant as he liberates trapped spirits from anger and fear, battles a menacing poltergeist, resurrects an ancient Egyptian mummy, halts a murder plotted by a wax figure of Admiral Nelson, and so much more! (Summary by Ben Tucker)