The Scattered Stethoscope

Aisha
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  1. 2d ago ·  Video

    Acute Vision Loss

    Back after a long break. I was sick, and getting better took longer than I planned. Thank you for waiting. This episode is the five causes of acute vision loss, and it starts with the one question that splits the differential in half before you look in the eye: is it painful or painless. Only one of the five hurts.

  2. Jun 5 ·  Video

    Insulted Into Health

    Is BMI real science? Do diets actually work? And why does losing weight so often feel like a fight you keep losing? This episode pulls apart the myths we've all been handed about weight, where that infamous number even came from, and why shame has never made anyone healthier. My husband sat in this time to bring his own point of view, and we go back and forth on the part that usually gets left out, that wanting to lose weight is completely fine, and it's the how that matters.

  3. Jun 3 ·  Video

    The War on Blood Sugar

    Diabetes is really just sugar ending up in the wrong places, so there isn't one drug for it. There's a drug for each place. This episode walks the whole body and picks up one tool at every stop. We start at the liver with metformin, the drug almost everyone gets first, then move to the fat and muscle with the glitazones, the pancreas with the sulfonylureas and meglitinides, the kidney with the SGLT2 inhibitors, and the gut with the alpha-glucosidase inhibitors. Then we finish with insulin itself, the one that replaces what's missing instead of nudging what's left. Every drug gets explained by the organ it works on, so the mechanisms, the side effects, and the reasons one gets chosen over another all follow from a single idea. Once you know the address, the drug explains itself.

  4. May 31 ·  Video

    The Way Grandma Drank It

    Raw milk is having a moment. The current HHS Secretary drinks it, wants more people to have access to it, and the internet is full of claims about how it's more natural and better for you. So we went and checked. This one's about what the research actually says, why we started heating milk in the first place, and what the "good old days" leave out.

  5. May 30 ·  Video

    The Incretin System

    Every blockbuster diabetes drug of the last decade hijacks the same trick: a hormone your gut releases the second food shows up, telling your pancreas to get ready. This episode is the why behind that hormone. We start with the incretin system itself, GLP-1 and GIP, then build out the two drug strategies that grew from it: the "-tide" injectables that mimic the hormone, and the "-gliptin" pills that stop your body from breaking it down. Then tirzepatide, the newer drug pulling two levers at once. By the end, the side effects, the contraindications, even who these drugs are right for, all of it stops being a list to memorize and starts making sense on its own. Mechanism first. The way it should be.

  6. May 29 ·  Video

    Thyroid Cancers

    Four cancers that all start the same way: a thyroid nodule. From there the stories split. The young woman with childhood radiation and lymph nodes in the neck. The middle-aged patient whose FNA can't make the diagnosis. The patient with diarrhea, a family history, and a tumor that secretes calcitonin. And the elderly patient with the rock-hard mass and a six-month prognosis. Season 2 premiere.

  7. May 28 ·  Video

    Generational Trauma

    Trauma doesn't just live in the person who experienced it. It changes the brain in real, measurable ways, and it echoes through families in ways we are only beginning to understand. In this episode, we get into what trauma actually does to the brain, what it can develop into over time, and the big question everybody asks but nobody answers honestly: can trauma actually pass from one generation to the next. We walk through the science, but we keep it real. The brain regions that get reshaped. The way a child's nervous system learns to read a room before they ever read a book. The cycle of harm that gets handed down by people who were hurt themselves and never knew another way to be. And the research on epigenetic inheritance, which has gotten way ahead of what the evidence actually shows. We close with something honest. The pain of loving somebody who hurt you. The grief of not having the parent you deserved. And the truth that forgiveness without changed behavior isn't really safety, no matter how much you want it to be. If you came from a home with a lot of pain in it, or you've ever sensed that something was getting passed down, this one's for you. The cycle is real. And the cycle can end with you.

  8. May 24 ·  Video

    Hyperparathyroidism

    Four diseases. Three labs. One framework. Primary is the gland gone rogue. Secondary is the gland doing its job in a CKD patient. Tertiary is secondary that went too far. And FHH is the broken calcium sensor that mimics primary but won't respond to surgery. Plus the urine calcium trick that keeps you from operating on the wrong patient. Season 1 finale.

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