The Scattered Stethoscope

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  1. 14h ago ·  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.

    17 min

  2. 1d ago ·  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.

    17 min

  3. 2d ago ·  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.

    24 min

  4. 2d ago ·  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.

    27 min

  5. 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.

    23 min

  6. May 24 ·  Video

    Types of Dementia

    Seven dementias, seven discriminators. The fast one with myoclonus. The triad where gait comes first. The stepwise decline with infarcts on imaging. The cluster of hallucinations and parkinsonism within a year. The timing rule that separates the two Lewy body diseases. The reversible one. And the default everyone else gets compared to. Plus the antipsychotic warning every clinician needs to know cold.

    26 min

  7. May 22 ·  Video

    Glycogen Storage Diseases

    Five enzymes. Five completely different bedside pictures. From a floppy baby with a massive heart, to a kid headed for cirrhosis, to a young adult crashing every workout with cola-colored urine. This episode walks through the five glycogen storage diseases and gives you a five-question decision tree that sorts any one of them at the bedside.

    18 min

  8. May 21 ·  Video

    Empathy

    The cardiologist walked into my hospital room and asked if I was ready to go home before saying hello. What happened next, and what it taught me about how doctors talk to patients, and how patients can talk back.

    40 min
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