Factors Underlying Mental Disorders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Using Pink Floyd's The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis
In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the rhetoric in our culture suggests.
How The Doctor Rose From Grave Robber To Great Man
Arrowsmith (1925) marks a dramatic shift in the American imagination from viewing scientific doctors as monsters to viewing them as heroes.
Isles-Second Fragment
A watchful partner, a curse, a part of everything all at once, in sickness and in health.
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.
Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek
Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.
Disability as a Plot Device in Tuner
How Tuner transforms disability into a cinematic superpower
We Year: A Love Letter to the Crip Community
An interview with film director Sop about art and chronic illness
Consumptive Heroines: Opera and TB with Drs Linda and Michael Hutcheon
This podcast explores tuberculosis’ impact on opera, focusing on La Traviata and La Bohème, examining medical and cultural influences.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
A neurosurgeon reflects on triumphs, failures, mortality, and compassion through decades of brain surgery.