Medscape Podcasts

Bob Wachter’s Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Bob Wachter’s Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine

The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list. Listen to the podcast via…

Eric TopolJuly 25, 2023

AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It’s Serious Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It’s Serious

Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or Medscape.

Eric TopolJune 27, 2023

Tragedy and Hope Wrapped in a Medical Mystery: Abraham Verghese and ‘The Covenant of Water’ Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Tragedy and Hope Wrapped in a Medical Mystery: Abraham Verghese and ‘The Covenant of Water’

Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel. Listen to…

Eric TopolJune 7, 2023

There’s No Place Like Home for Hospital Care Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

There’s No Place Like Home for Hospital Care

Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another. Listen to the podcast via…

Eric TopolMay 1, 2023

Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation

Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods? Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or…

Eric TopolMarch 15, 2023

How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again

ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain…

Eric TopolFebruary 21, 2023

White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused Medscape Podcasts

White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused

Giving Paxlovid to an older adult with COVID is a clinical no-brainer. So why is there so much Paxlovid prescribing phobia? Eric Topol interviews Ashish…

Eric TopolJanuary 31, 2023

The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty is Unavoidable Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty is Unavoidable

Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions. Listen to the podcast via…

Eric TopolJanuary 18, 2023

To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by…

Eric TopolDecember 22, 2022

How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence. Listen to the podcast via…

Eric TopolNovember 23, 2022

How We Create–Then Blame–A Viral Underclass Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

How We Create–Then Blame–A Viral Underclass

Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or…

Eric TopolOctober 13, 2022

The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert’s Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19 Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert’s Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19

Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or Medscape.

Eric TopolSeptember 21, 2022

We Are Failing to Use What We’ve Learned About COVID Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

We Are Failing to Use What We’ve Learned About COVID

Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel. Listen to the podcast via Apple…

Eric TopolSeptember 9, 2022

Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias? Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?

An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions…

Eric TopolJuly 27, 2022

Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella

Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID. Listen to the…

Eric TopolJune 23, 2022

How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine’s Secrets Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine’s Secrets

Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts…

Eric TopolJune 15, 2022

How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain

Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of…

Eric TopolMay 20, 2022

Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead

Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise. Listen to the podcast via Apple…

Eric TopolApril 21, 2022

Eric Topol: ‘I Still Have My Guard Up’  Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

Eric Topol: ‘I Still Have My Guard Up’ 

Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or…

Eric TopolApril 8, 2022

The Medical Model Doesn’t Work for Mental Health Medicine & The MachineMedscape Podcasts

The Medical Model Doesn’t Work for Mental Health

Former NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcast or Medscape.

Eric TopolMarch 25, 2022