Looking for a new podcast? Recommendations for you

Looking for a new podcast? Check out some favorties from WHSLA members. 

Business Wars: listen to the Coke vs. Pepsi season for a look at the origins of "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" and the "Pepsi Generation". The backstory isn't as wholesome as you might think.  

American History Tellers: topics ranging from the Civil War and Gold Rush to the Space Race and the Boston Molasses explosion. The current season is a 6-part series on Reconstruction.

NPR's Book of the Day: no mystery here, just a new book showcased every day

MedEd Thread (Cleveland Clinic)'s "Exploring ChatGPT: Navigating its Implications for an Academic Medical Center (Part 1)" with Michelle Kraft: a 38-minute listen from leading thinkers at Cleveland Clinic. Part 2 comes out July 5. 

Ten Percent Happier: stories to give you a lift. 

 

NPR's Short Wave podcast: Will artificial intelligence help — or hurt — medicine?

 "A doctor's job is to help patients. With that help, often comes lots and lots of paperwork. That's where some startups are betting artificial intelligence may come in. The hope is that chatbots could generate data like treatment plans that would let doctors spend less time on paperwork and more time with their patients. But some academics warn biases and errors could hurt patients."

Introducing New NEJM Group Podcast: NEJM AI Grand Rounds

NEJM AI Grand Rounds, a new monthly podcast hosted by Arjun (Raj) Manrai, Ph.D., and Andrew Beam, Ph.D., features informal, expert conversations that explore deep issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine.

In the first episode, Stanford University professor and cardiologist Dr. Euan Ashley shares how his team is using artificial intelligence to prevent, predict, and beat disease.

Follow NEJM AI Grand Rounds on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Sign up for the companion newsletter, NEJM AI.

Killer podcast recommendations

Thanks to WHSLA members Jennifer Deal and Dora Davis for sending me two podcast recommendations with similar enough names for a catchy blog post title!

First, Jennifer recommends If Books Could Kill, a new podcast about "the airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds."

Next, Dora recommends This Podcast Will Kill You, an established podcast about "epidemics and weird medical mysteries."  Dora says the season 5 episode on sepsis was particularly good.  Bonus, they have a bunch of fun cocktail recipes (and their non-alcoholic counterparts) on their website.

Librarian podcast

 The Librarian Linkover

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-librarian-linkover-lorene-kennard-oL6vYRM2WCe/

Podcast series run by Lorene Kennard

“Guests on The Librarian Linkover highlight the array of skills that librarians use in leadership roles in libraries, as well as how they use their library degrees to work in other industries. This podcast will change how people view librarians...”

There have been 50+ interviews so far.

Why Some Of Us Enjoy The Pain Of Spicy Foods (Short Wave podcast from NPR)

Short Wave, a daily science podcast from NPR, is one of my new favorite things to listen to. 

Check out this recent episode on why some people love spicy foods...even when they cause pain! 

Good Things Come In Trees (NPR Podcast)

Last year, a tree next to my house had to be taken down. It was becoming root bound and limbs were becoming brittle, not to mention a large crack that made its way from the ground to the main branches. I was sad to see it go. It's absence reminded me of how much trees contribute to their environment, not the least of which is the sense of peace you get in a tree-filled area. 

Learn more from this recent NPR podcast: Good Things Come in Trees. 

70-Over-70 Podcast

I found a new-to-me podcast called 70-Over-70. 

From their website: "70 Over 70: a show about how we make the most of the time we have left. Max Linsky talks to 70 remarkable people, all over the age of 70, not just about their past but their lives right now. These are conversations about the big questions we all ask ourselves, no matter how old we are. What does it mean to live well? What are we still searching for? And how do we learn to let go?"

I have not been able to do any oral history interviews with the Sisters who founded my hospital in the past 2 years, and I realized how much I missed that project, talking with older and wiser people about what's important in life, and the lessons they've learned.  This podcast fills that empty space for me.  I hope you enjoy it too.

What are you listening to?

Podcast recommendation: Maintenance Phase

 Looking for a podcast that's smart, funny, and well-researched?  Check out Maintenance Phase.  Hosts Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes debunk the junk science behind health and wellness fads.  WHSLA member Jennifer Deal recommended this episode about failures in science publishing as being of particular interest for us nerdy medical library types.  Be forewarned that swear words abound.

Is your life (and brain) too noisy?

From the Hidden Brain podcast, May 17, 2021:

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman says there are invisible factors that distort our judgment. He calls these factors “noise.” The consequences can be found in everything from marriage proposals to medical diagnoses and prison sentences. This week on Hidden Brain, we consider how to identify noise in the world, and in our own lives.

Merck Manuals Medical Myths Podcast: Setting the Record Straight on Medical Misinformation

Setting the record straight on medical misinformation

• All eight episodes of season two of the Merck Manuals Medical Myths Podcast are now available! 
• Started in 2019, these podcasts were created to help dispel common medical myths and misconceptions. 
• The Merck Manuals Medical Myths Podcast features nationally recognized physicians setting the record straight on a wide variety of topics, from what's really happening when you crack your knuckles to whether or not a stick of gum really stays in your body for seven years.

This season's topics and physicians include:

1. Rheumatology Myths featuring Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of Academic Medicine, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University

2. Vertigo Myths featuring David M. Kaylie, MS, MD, Duke University Medical Center

3. Hypertension Myths featuring George L. Bakris, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine

4. Gastrointestinal Myths featuring Jonathan I. Gotfried, MD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

5. Vision Myths featuring Sunir J. Garg, MD, Retina Physician and Surgeon, Wills Eye Hospital

6. COVID-19 and its Effects on Kids featuring Catherine Soprano, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Attending Physician, Diagnostic Referral Division, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

7. Dental Myths featuring David F. Murchison, DDS, Texas A&M College of Dentistry

8. Hangovers Myths featuring Rika O’Malley, MD, Albert Einstein Medical Center

Visit www.merckmanuals.com/professional/resourcespages/podcasts to download the Merck Manuals Medical Myths Podcast from your favorite platform.

    

This Week in Virology Podcast

This Week in Virology is a weekly podcast about viruses--the kind that make you sick.

Every week, they pick up a new topic in the field.  Lately, it's been Corona--of course.

This week's episode is: TWiV 598: Who was that masked man? Coronavirus update with Daniel Griffin in which "Daniel Griffin MD returns to TWiV from a hospital parking lot to provide updates on COVID-19 diagnostics, clinical picture, and therapeutics, followed by our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2."

They do offer a subset under Virology 101, if you need to start with the basics.  
Here's what they say about the 101 series: 

• "Now and then we produce a TWiV that is focused on explaining basic aspects of virology. We call this series ‘Virology 101’. All the posts in this series are listed on this page with links back to the original post. If you start from the top, soon you will have a good basic understanding of virology. Repeated listening often fosters better comprehension.
• For those who prefer reading, there is Virology 101 and Influenza 101 at virology blog.
• Topics include virus structure, classification, entry into cells, making viral RNA, making viral DNA, transcription, reverse transcription, etc.

It's written by scientists, so it's well-researched with additional links to scientific papers.

TWiV: This Week in Virology

A podcast about viruses – the kind that make you sick.

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