Best R2d2 Podcasts (2024)

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You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone 27:49

3M ago27:49

27:49

This week, Suzi recovers from day surgery and illness, and muses about beauty and style as we get older. "Youth is wasted on the young" is so true!By Suzi Clements

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I Scare Myself Looking in the Mirror 30:06

3M ago30:06

30:06

In this episode, Suzi talks about getting into a middle-age skincare routine and explains how she relied on technology but got burnt at the petrol station (not literally!).By Suzi Clements

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It's the R2D2 of Coffee Cups 28:07

5M ago28:07

28:07

This week, Suzi remembers TV from the past, bemoans the price of coffee and admits she has no motivation for exercise when it's raining (or, actually, ever)! Follow on Instagram @middleagedmadness.podcast and join the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/middleagedmadnessBy Suzi Clements

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My Christmas Was Shit, How Was Yours? 17:37

5M ago17:37

17:37

In this episode, Suzi says welcome back to the podcast! She talks about the ups and downs of having a Reception child and explains exactly why her Christmas was shit.By Suzi Clements

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74 - R2D2 33:22

11M ago33:22

33:22

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we’ve been discussing this for over 50 years. In this episode, Dr. Shani Herzig and I are going all the way back to the early …

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73 - Seadragon 27:57

1y ago27:57

27:57

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to build the first truly effective clinical decision support system – and to grapple with what it means when a comput…

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Not Sure He'd Want a Big Orangutan Staring at Him 22:35

1y ago22:35

22:35

This week, Suzi gushes about her recent theatre visit and how middle age delightfully means one late night puts you out the next day. And then muses on the important midlife topic of redecorating.By Suzi Clements

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Who Doesn't Love a Good Ol' Moan? I've Found an App! 26:14

1y ago26:14

26:14

This week, Suzi wonders if having a moan is mainly a middle- and old-age thing. And enjoys people being moany on a social media app!By Suzi Clements

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I Don't Go Looking For Incidents and Accidents, I Just Want Excitement! 20:18

1y ago20:18

20:18

In this episode, Suzi extols the virtues of open water swimming (briefly) and then waxes lyrical about her new dashcam. If only she had something to show for it!By Suzi Clements

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I'm not Nosy, I'm Just... Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours 21:30

1y ago21:30

21:30

This week, Suzi reveals her nosy tendencies and ponders exactly what ketones are.By Suzi Clements

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Holidays Are When I'm Living My Best Life 21:22

1+ y ago21:22

21:22

This episode, Suzi celebrates her holidays time and longs for the day she can survive on less than 9 hours sleep!By Suzi Clements

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I Found Myself! (In the Wardrobe Behind the Platform Trainers) 17:56

1+ y ago17:56

17:56

In this episode, Suzi gets excited about cold water and waxes lyrical about a new skirt that turned out to be a bit of a turning point.By Suzi Clements

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72 - Problems 52:03

1+ y ago52:03

52:03

American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about their patients; only a small fraction is spent with the human beings in their care. Technology itself – especially the electronic medical record – has often been blamed for this. But in this episode – a recorded grand rounds that …

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71 - A Doctor's Work, part 2 37:47

1+ y ago37:47

37:47

In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss discussed the history of the actual work of the doctor – Holmesian detective, data entry clerk, or something else altogether. In this episode, we conclude our discussion by talking about what type of metaphors are best suited for clinical work. Plus a brand new #Ad…

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New Year, New Start (But I'd Rather be on the Sofa!) 17:25

1+ y ago17:25

17:25

This episode is all about new ventures for the new year! Suzi talks about lifelong learning and her new hula hoop obsession.By Suzi Clements

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70 - A Doctor's Work 49:14

1+ y ago49:14

49:14

What do doctors actually do? Are they Sherlockian detectives, hunting down obscure clues to solve intractable cases? Are they virtuosic experts, training for half a lifetime to bring the latest science to bear to cure disease? Or are they clerks, whose main job is to collect and enter data into the electronic health record? In this episode, Adam is…

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Invisibility is a Superpower 20:30

1+ y ago20:30

20:30

This week, Suzi considers the idea of being invisible and wishes she could survive on less sleep!By Suzi Clements

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It's not "Clutter", it's "Joy"! 22:53

1+ y ago22:53

22:53

This week, Suzi tells herself it's fine to have a loft full of memories because they bring her joy! She also brings up her thalassophobia.By Suzi Clements

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Don't Mention the Midlife C-word 16:20

1+ y ago16:20

16:20

This week, Suzi shares her salon-inspired musings about her pared-back midlife crisis, as well as a recent uplifting cemetery visit.By Suzi Clements

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69 - The Database 48:45

1+ y ago48:45

48:45

How do doctors actually think? And if we can answer that, can we train a computer to do a better job? In the post-WW2 period, a group of iconoclastic physicians set about to redefine the nature and structure of clinical reasoning and tried to build a diagnostic machine. Though they would ultimately fail, their failure set the stage for the birth of…

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Remember those Disco Balls from the 90s? 11:30

1+ y ago11:30

11:30

Suzi admits her aches and pains and shares her dance class thoughts. Being able to hold your own isn't necessarily a good thing!By Suzi Clements

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I want Pink Hair but I don't want Elastic Waistbands 12:39

1+ y ago12:39

12:39

Suzi muses on the realisation that she's middle aged. And admits comfy trousers are her thing.By Suzi Clements

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68 - The History 39:52

2y ago39:52

39:52

Internal medicine physicians like to pride ourselves on our clinical reasoning – the ability to talk to any patient, pluck out seemingly random bits of information, and make a mystery diagnosis. But how does this actually work? In this episode, called The History, I’ll be joined by Gurpreet Dhaliwal as we explore the beginnings of our understanding…

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The Facemaker with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris (#histmedconsultservice) 51:55

2y ago51:55

51:55

Modern plastic surgery was born out of the horrors of trench warfare in World War I. In this episode, Adam interviews historian Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book The Facemaker, about the life of surgeon Harold Gillies and his quest to rebuild his patients' faces.By Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, FACP

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Let The Wookiee Win – Episode 33 - The Rebootquel 1:00:21

2y ago1:00:21

1:00:21

On This Weeks Episode... Introduction/Welcome Back Lego Star Wars is everywhere! Obi Wan - Will Qui-Gonn Appear? What about Jar Jar? What’s up with the look of the Utapauan? Thoughts on Boba Fett/Hopes for Next Season of Mando? Ian’s Pitch for Season 2 of Book of Boba Fett Space Dive ChatBy Geektainment.TV

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67 - Fever on the Frontier 48:51

2+ y ago48:51

48:51

In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As fierce debates about this new disease, now called milk sickness, raged – was it from toxic swamp gasses? arsenic in the soil? infectious microorganisms? from the poor constitutions of the settlers – an irregul…

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66 - Burnout 53:59

2+ y ago53:59

53:59

Burnout seems to stalk healthcare workers; between a third and a half of doctors and nurses had symptoms of burnout BEFORE the COVID-19 pandemic. Major medical associations have recognized burnout as a serious problem and the condition is being added to ICD-11 as an “occupational phenomenon.” How did we get ourselves into this situation? How has bu…

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65 - The Last Breath 40:31

2+ y ago40:31

40:31

How can we medically tell whether or not someone is alive or dead? The answer is much more complicated than you'd think. In this episode, which is a live podcast I gave with Tony Breu at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians annual meeting on October 16, 2021, we track the evolution and controversies of the death exam, fro…

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64 - A Vicious Circle 40:25

3y ago40:25

40:25

During World War II, the US Army launched a seemingly routine experiment to find the ideal way to screen soldiers for tuberculosis. Jacob Yerushalmy, the statistician in charge of this project, would succeed at this task -- and end up fundamentally changing our conception of medical diagnosis in the process. This episode features Dr. Shani Herzig, …

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63 - Signals 40:37

3y ago40:37

40:37

What does it mean when different physicians disagree about a diagnosis? I am joined by Dr. Shani Herzig as we explore this issue in the second part of my series on the development of diagnosis. We’re going to discuss the advent of signal detection theory in the middle of the 20th century as new diagnostics such as laboratory testing and x-rays star…

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62 - The Sisters Blackwell 41:44

3y ago41:44

41:44

Elizabeth Blackwell -- the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States -- and her sister Emily Blackwell are some of the most important physicians of the 19th century, firmly establishing the role of women as physicians, starting an infirmary and hospital for poor women and children, and founding a women’s medical college that was dec…

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61 - Etymologies 39:15

3+ y ago39:15

39:15

Words matter. At its best, etymology gives us insight not only into the origins of words, but why they remain so important today, especially in medicine, where we’ve been accruing jargon for millennia. In this episode, we’re delving into four specific words -- doctor, cerebrovascular accident, rounds, and zebras. And along the way, we’re going to d…

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60 - Santa's Salmonella 38:22

3+ y ago38:22

38:22

For a special holiday treat, we’re going to explore two tales of salmonella disease detectives -- the first about Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”) and the birth of the genre; and the second about a mysterious salmonella outbreak at Massachusetts General Hospital solved with the assistance of a very jolly patient. Along the way, we’ll talk about clinica…

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59 - Cry of the Suffering Organs 43:21

3+ y ago43:21

43:21

Diagnosis is arguably the most important job of a physician. But what does it actually mean to make a diagnosis? In this episode, we’ll explore this question by tracking the development of the “classical” model of diagnosis and pathological anatomy and discussing three cases over three hundred years. Along the way, we’ll ponder the concept of the l…

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