With the number of podcasts on the rise, and the time to listen to them all likely on the decline, Sladen Library has created a list of recommended medical podcasts that can keep you entertained and informed while you commute, multitask, or maybe take a break for once.
Many medical journals offer a podcast version as a way to keep up with the research in their publications. The New England Journal of Medicine hosts two regular podcasts, NEJM This Week and NEJM Interviews. NEJM This Week features a physician discussing the latest in medical research and ideas. The typically 30-minute episodes usually drop mid-week, offering a chance to catch up on healthcare news while you’re still in the thick of it. In NEJM Interviews, host and NEJM managing editor, Stephen Morrissey, talks with experts and fellow NEJM editors on the topic of the day in smaller bite-size episodes. Lately, that’s meant a lot of discussion of Covid-19, with occasional looks into the economics and public policies that affect healthcare delivery.
Like NEJM, the JAMA Network provides a variety of podcasts from JAMA editors and leading experts on timely topics in medicine. Since we last wrote about the Journal of the American Medical Association’s host of shows, the number of podcasts has grown to two dozen, with a podcast for each specialty and several more on specific topics like COVID-19, professionalism in healthcare, and a guide to statistics and methods. Check out the entire JAMA Network here.
Hosts Aubrey Gordon (Your Fat Friend) and Michael Hobbes (You’re Wrong About) debunk the junk science behind weight loss fads by digging deep into the evidence on obesity and its actual relationship to health. A social epidemic, obesity can be tied to poor health in ways that are often tenuous or inaccurate, leading to damaging effects on mental health and misguided attempts to lose weight. Gordon and Hobbes are a fun pair—humor and snark abound—but they’re serious about getting to the truth of why people of all sizes can be healthy.
Recommended listens: “The Body Mass Index”, “Fat Camps,” and “The Sleep Loss Epidemic”
If you’ve been extra tired this week and looking for someone to blame, a recent episode of Freakonomics, MD looks into the origins of Daylight Saving Time and its impact on the health and well-being of our modern society. Provided by Freakonomics Radio Network and described as “the Freakonomics of medicine,” this podcast focuses on the intersection of economics and healthcare and all of the ways capitalism and healthcare cooperate, or don't. Hosted by Dr. Bapu Jena, who holds doctorates in both medicine and economics, Freakonomics, MD ask questions and explores connections that are both entertaining and critical to daily life.
Recommended listens: "Is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous to Your Health?", "Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?", and "Why Do So Many Donated Kidneys End Up in the Trash?"
It’s possible no one has more fun with infectious disease than the Erins of This Podcast Will Kill You. While the subject matter is a bit dire, the same-named co-hosts are quick to inject life into the conversation with humor and cocktails, helping the content go down a little more smoothly than coursework. Each episode covers a different infectious disease, and pairs nicely with a “quarantini,” a signature cocktail crafted to sidecar the episode. (Not a drinker? Have a “placeborita.”)
Created by Dr. Adam Rodman, a global health hospitalist and medical educator, Bedside Rounds features stories about interesting and sometimes strange event in medicine and medical history. Episodes have been released intermittently throughout the pandemic, but remain critical: the latest episode examines burnout among healthcare workers and the structural factors that have led to it. (Print-lovers can enjoy the work of Bedside Rounds too, as each episode is transcribed and timestamped.)
Other podcasts enjoyed by Sladen Library staff include Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast, Medicine Redefined, and Health Report. The podcasts mentioned here are available from a number of services such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher, or they can be streamed via your desktop computer. Pick your favorite service and start listening!
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