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Bedside Rounds

A tiny podcast about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. 

 

May 4, 2018

The physical exam has become a ritual of the modern doctor’s appointment, with pokes, prods, and strange tools. How did this become a normal thing to do? In this episode, I’ll discuss how the physical exam went from the medieval examination of a flask of urine to basically what we have today in just a few decades in...