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The Curious Clinicians is a medical podcast that asks "why?". Why do diseases present in certain ways? What are the mechanisms of treatments we use? Why does the human body function as it does? Join us to explore these questions and many more.

The Curious Clinicians The Curious Clinicians

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The Curious Clinicians is a medical podcast that asks "why?". Why do diseases present in certain ways? What are the mechanisms of treatments we use? Why does the human body function as it does? Join us to explore these questions and many more.

    [Archive] UMAMI

    [Archive] UMAMI

    In this episode from our archives, originally posted on September 16, 2020, The Curious Clinicians examined why the savory flavor umami is SO DELICIOUS. Dig in!
    Show notes: https://curiousclinicians.com/2020/09/16/episode-9-why-is-umami-so-delicious/
    CME: https://vcu.cloud-cme.com/course/search?p=4000&curriculum=Curious%20Clinicians
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly
     
     
     

    • 19 min
    86 - Enlarging Alcohol

    86 - Enlarging Alcohol

    The Curious Clinicians are on tap to ask, why does chronic alcohol use cause macrocytosis?
    Read the show notes here. 
    Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. Medical student Giancarlo Buonomo is our producer. 

    • 22 min
    85 - NephMadness 2024

    85 - NephMadness 2024

    Welcome to NephMadness 2024! In collaboration with Things We Do For No Reason (TWDFNR), we are excited to promote the start of this amazing medical education opportunity.
    Inspired by the "March Madness" college basketball tournament, NephMadness is a "a free online, CME-granting, evidenced-based, noncommercial learning initiative that leverages the tools of social media to teach about the latest and greatest breakthroughs in the field of nephrology!". Fill out your bracket today!
    Dr. Jeff Kott, NephMadness Executive Committee member, Critical Care Medicine Fellow At Stony Brook Medicine on Long Island, NY and former nephrology fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, joins Avi, Hannah, and Tony to discuss two hot button TWDFNR topics in nephrology:
    Whether we should use phosphate binders in acute kidney injury If the urine anion gap in non-gap metabolic acidosis is helpful or not Read the show notes here.
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. 

    • 28 min
    84 - History & Hemochromatosis: The Ins and Outs of Iron

    84 - History & Hemochromatosis: The Ins and Outs of Iron

    The Curious Clinicians examine why the genetic mutations leading to hereditary hemochromatosis might have offered an evolutionarily advantage to our Neolithic ancestors. The answer relates to an old breakfast stalwart- cereal and milk!
    Read the show notes here.
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. 
    This episode is sponsored by Audible! New members can try Audible free for 30 days using our own Curious Clinicians podcast code - visit Audible.com/TCCPOD or text TCCPOD to 500-500. 

    • 32 min
    [Archive] - (Trans)locating the Bacteria

    [Archive] - (Trans)locating the Bacteria

    On this episode from our archive, originally posted on March 15, 2022, The Curious Clinicians examine why cirrhosis predisposes to SBP, and why bacterial translocation across the bowel wall into ascites doesn’t actually occur!
    Read the show notes here.
    Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of nodderly.com.
    This episode is sponsored by Audible! New members can try Audible free for 30 days using our own Curious Clinicians podcast code - visit Audible.com/TCCPOD or text TCCPOD to 500-500. 

    • 21 min
    83 - Thalidomide Embryopathy

    83 - Thalidomide Embryopathy

    The Curious Clinicians investigate the history and mechanisms of how thalidomide caused embryopathy in the late 1950s and early 1960s in over 10,000 babies across the world.
    Read the show notes here. 
    Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).
    Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. Medical student Giancarlo Buonomo is our producer. 
    This episode is sponsored by Audible! New members can try Audible free for 30 days using our own Curious Clinicians podcast code - visit Audible.com/TCCPOD or text TCCPOD to 500-500. 

    • 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
335 Ratings

335 Ratings

Muttervonhenry ,

Joy in Medicine

Thank you for this amazing show. It is informative, fascinating, and the stories really help me remember the key points (Feeding a subject 125-250 tabs of sodium bicarb -ouch!) You bring back the joy in medicine!!

GillFried ,

So fun!

I am a mid-career medical executive (psychiatry background). What a fun way to explore questions I never learned in medical school, and refresh my basic internal medicine knowledge at the same time. A course always feels like a “chore” — but this podcast is fresh and fun.

Mrsboze ,

Love this podcast

Love the podcast music- it makes me smile and want to dance and be jolly 😊.. but I also love how you guys present information. I love that you admit you don’t know everything… and you all seem to have a great chemistry and are funny which makes learning that much more fun.
Every time I listen I always think.. I need to let them know how much I enjoy their show and to please never change that intro music- it’s the best!!

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