Category: Podcast
Listen to podcasts exploring medicine, culture, and humanity through conversations with experts, artists, and storytellers.
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Inside The Pitt: Medicine Meets Drama
A deep-dive podcast exploring The Pitt, a gripping medical drama, its realism, emotional impact, and lessons for medicine and humanity.
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a Podcast
A special podcast episode blending sports and medicine, exploring The Tennis Partner and the complexities of friendship, addiction, and healing.
How Real is the Pitt?
Dr. Stuart Harman joins Apollo On Call to explore The PITT—a gripping medical drama through the lens of medical humanities.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
A poignant documentary exploring how a young man with muscular dystrophy found profound connection and purpose in virtual worlds.
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Two book lovers dive into The Emperor of All Maladies, exploring its impact on medicine and storytelling.
Painting an Ideal: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor with Hannah Darvin
Luke Fildes’ 1891 painting The Doctor evolved from a criticized debut into an enduring, multifaceted symbol of the compassionate physician ideal.
Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
The Who’s Tommy is used to explore psychiatric trauma, with its iconic songs helping teach mental health concepts to students and professionals.
“No Escape from Reality:” Thomas Kuhn and the Reliability of Medical Knowledge
Medical knowledge isn't static; paradigm shifts can upend what we know, leaving patients and professionals navigating sudden, unpredictable changes.
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
Leland plunges into the country of the blind, which for him is a “teeming variety of their stories of struggle, adaptation, and adventure.
“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris
Eros fuels desires in illness, offering healing through art, literature, and companionship—David B. Morris reveals its transformative power for patients seeking meaning.
What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid
Four years post-pandemic, we must reflect not only on technocratic solutions but on deeper desires, using poetry to express collective and personal experiences.
AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
Exploring the HIV/AIDS crisis through graphic memoir, we discover how the comic medium uniquely conveys emotional, medical, and human aspects that traditional texts often miss.
Life Imitates Art: Covid-19 Edition
Human reactions to pandemics, from literature spanning centuries, uncannily mirror those seen during COVID-19, suggesting repeating patterns of behavior, though views on our future remain divided.
Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt
Edvard Munch’s emotional portrayal of illness and suffering offers profound insights for health professionals and their education.
He Wants to Itch at It: A Novel, Play, and Movie Imagining Dementia
Through arts, dementia is imagined: a novel, a play, and film explore disorientation, denial, and emotional wilderness."
When Neurons Get Tied Up in Knots: Human Fallibility and Folly in Asylum Psychiatry
Exploring mental illness through art and history: films, books, and blogs on lobotomies, psychiatry, and the search for cures.