Disease Death and Doctors

By: The Honorable Doctor John and The less Honorable Doctor Guy
  • Summary

  • This is a storytelling podcast that discusses the NON-chronological history of medicine (Because going in order sucks). A discussion of diseases, discoveries, and the doctors that left their mark (and sometimes scar) on the field of medicine. Things are going to get weird. Episodes released twice monthly for your auditory consumption. Music: The Road (Punk Rock Opera). Tom Podell (digital alteration of Wellcome Library historical watercolor CC by 4.0)
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Episodes
  • Ambroise Pare. Barber. Surgeon.
    Apr 11 2022

    Doctor John and Doctor Guy chit chat about the great Ambroise Pare.  The French Barber Surgeon whose tight fades and man perms could only be out done by his battlefield surgical prowess and ingenious prosthesis designs.  This rousing episode includes lots of amputations, some essential oils, ligatures, and a guest appearance by everyone's favorite magical stone. 

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    39 mins
  • Chagas Disease. It's worse than cooties.
    Mar 7 2022

    Doctor John and Doctor Guy discuss Chagas Disease and the "Kissing Bug."  Nothing says "I love you" like a parasitic infection caused by a bug that defecates near your mouth after it kisses (bites) you.  

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    36 mins
  • Doctor Daniel Hale Williams. Fixing Broken Hearts since 1893
    Feb 21 2022

    The honorable doctor John and less honorable doctor Guy bask in the greatness of Doctor Daniel Hale Williams, the only African-American selected as a charter member to the American College of Surgeons and the man, the myth, the legend, credited with performing the first successful open heart surgery.  All he needed were his bare hands, a scalpel, and a wooden stethoscope.

    Oh... and a pair of really big beach balls.  
     

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    40 mins

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