This Medical Life
Welcome to the This Medical Life podcast. Our mission is to share stories about the triumphs and tragedies of diseases and illnesses from ancient times up until what we know today. It is about those scientific and medical minds who came before us and how, every single day, we stand on the shoulders of giants. This is a podcast about the stories of medicine.
Hosted by Dr. Travis Brown and Steve Davis, our target audience is General Practitioners, medical students, and other health professionals. We hope to educate, inspire and celebrate those who choose to care for others in their profession. From experience, we know that our audience extends beyond these fields and would like to welcome anyone to listen. The stories of those who came before us are nothing short of remarkable and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Production by Tim Whiffen
Design by Tom Buzz
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 134
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 9: Hepatitis | As Easy As A, B, C, D... E...
Scattered throughout history are epidemics of catarrhal or campaign jaundice (the latter was experienced during military campaigns). The pivotal moment was during World War II where troops became sic…
Episode 8: King Henry VIII | The Exploding Coffin
King Henry VIII was both a literal and a historical giant but his reputation of brutality and malevolence has few equals. He took power at the start of the English renaissance and was responsible for…
Episode 7: Medical Education | Exponential Challenges
How we teach those who come after us is as important as the knowledge we learn for ourselves. Medicine throughout the ages has been an apprenticeship style model, but over the last few hundred years …
Episode 6: Multiple Sclerosis | Sclerose En Plaque Disseminee
At the end of the 14th century, a young woman is skating on a frozen canal and suddenly falls injuring herself. Her name is Lidwina. Over the next 30 years her body deteriorated due to a disease we k…
Episode 5: Egyptian Mummies | Mummification & The Harem Conspiracy
Ancient Egyptians hold a special place in history. Their civilization, religions, gods, conquests, traditions and rituals are some of the most well documented and fascinating. Throughout the centurie…
Episode 4: Urine | Liquid Gold
If there is one constant throughout all of medical history, it is the value of urine. Our ancient ancestors believed they predict a patient’s recovery (or not) upon examination of their urine to the …
Episode 3: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) | Alphabet Antibodies
SLE is a chronic relapsing autoimmune disease. ‘Lupus’ is latin for wolf and glimpses of it can be seen throughout history. However, it is often obscured by the complexity of the disease and the cong…
Episode 2: Syphilis | The Great Historical Defamer
The emergence of syphilis in 15th century Europe caused widespread panic and finger-pointing as to the cause and origin of this disease. Unfortunately, the treatment at the time was as dangerous as i…
Episode 1: The Discovery of Anaesthetic | Surgery Cleft in Twain
Modern day surgery is synonymous with anaesthetic. Yet, it has only been that way since the mid-1800s. Prior to this, people either resided to their fate without surgery or faced the knife with littl…
Ep 45 Drugs & Genes: Pharmacogenetics and Pathology
Aug 27, 2021 2:32 PM
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Ep 44 Will not have been meaningless | PKU & Cystic Fibrosis Pathology
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Ep 43 Engineering Einstein | Digital Pathology & Artificial intelligence
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Ep 42 The Cholesterol Conundrum | Pathology
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Ep 41 Napoleon | The Bonaparte Conspiracy & Gastric cancer pathology
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Ep 40 Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (M.E.N.) Pathology | Genetic Puzzles
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Ep 39 Coeliac disease and Pathology | De Slag om Gluten (Dutch)
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Ep 38 Leprosy and Pathology | From tzaraat to leprosy
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Ep 37 Lead Pathology | Saturn’s sweet poison
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Ep 36 HIV Pathology | Defenceless
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Ep 35 Piercing the smoke screen | Cigarettes, Smoking & Vapes
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