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Bedside Rounds

A tiny podcast about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. 

 

Oct 4, 2021

During World War II, the US Army launched a seemingly routine experiment to find the ideal way to screen soldiers for tuberculosis. Jacob Yerushalmy, the statistician in charge of this project, would succeed at this task -- and end up fundamentally changing our conception of medical diagnosis in the process. This...