The PalCast: Podcast from the White Coat Underground
The PalCast from the White Coat Underground is a free-standing discussion about the medical, scientific, and cultural issues. The author is a physician and blogger. His primary blog is http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground. This podcast will not give individual medical advice, and all personal medical questions whould be directed to your doctor.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2009
PalCast 14--Health care reform and helping the hapless
Medicine, service, and health care reform
00:21:05 |
Sat 01 Aug 2009
PalCast 13--Medicine, Communication, Quackery, and Death
Scattered thoughts on clarity and obfuscation in medical communication
00:19:18 |
Sun 19 Jul 2009
PalCast 12--Three Deaths
Three deaths in the news, and some news from the medical blogosphere
00:19:33 |
Sat 27 Jun 2009
PalCast 11--The kitchen edition
Explaining how medicine dehumanizes while simultaneously doing housework
00:21:05 |
Mon 25 May 2009
PalCast 10--The backyard edition
Why do people seek out alternative medicine? Should they?
00:21:30 |
Sat 25 Apr 2009
PalCast 9--Work and Family, and something more
Why it's important to talk about work and family, and who can be a primary care doctor
00:17:42 |
Tue 21 Apr 2009
PalCast 8--Coffee and the immorality of alternative medicine
How understanding coffee helps us understand alternative medicine
00:18:02 |
Sun 15 Mar 2009
PalCast 7--Harkin, medical religiosity, and the Depression
Lots of medical news this week, and the depression is the theme of the winter.
00:18:46 |
Sun 08 Mar 2009
PalCast 6---Chaotic musings on irrationality
My return to the PalCast is a bit chaotic but touches on some important topics in medicine, addiction, vaccination, and irrational thinking.
00:22:31 |
Sat 28 Feb 2009
PalCast 5---Musings on the inanity of American health care
Does the American health care system seem a little broken? It's broken in some ways you haven't thought of.
00:19:12 |
Sat 17 Jan 2009
PalCast 4---Reality: still the best policy
Do you think alternative medicine has found something new? Are you sure?
00:18:14 |
Sun 04 Jan 2009
PalCast 3---Death: A few pointers
How a doctor deals with a death in the family
00:17:11 |
Sun 28 Dec 2008
PalCast 2---Impotence, Omnipotence, and a Doctor Behaving Badly
Doctors sometimes act like gods, and this can be both a good thing and a bad thing. What happens when a doctor loses their omnipotence?
00:23:42 |
Sun 21 Dec 2008
PalCast 1---Arrogance in medicine
Doctors are often accused of arrogance. What does this mean? Is it true? If so, what are the consequences?
00:22:20 |
Sat 13 Dec 2008
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