Infectious disease word association, surviving sepsis, cranberry juice for UTIs, syphilis on the rise, and when back pain isn't just back pain.

Recall Bias

Episode 012 — Sepsis and cranberry juice

Can a person have two functioning hearts in their chest? Can running a marathon look like a heart attack? Why is virtually everyone admitted to the hospital now via the emergency department? Join us as we ponder these questions and more in our third cardiology episode!

Episode 021 — Bayes and BNP

How, exactly, do you say 'Torsades de Pointes' and why should you treat it empirically? Can you detect a-fib with just a wristwatch and your finger? What is the origin story of Alex's egg-related superhero powers? Join us for episode 20 as we tackle all these questions and more!

Episode 020 – Ribbons and rhythms

Can a climbing harness lead to a systolic blood pressure of 500+? What does nitroglycerine actually do? Does the FDA approve medicines for use in patients of a certain race? Join us this week to answer these questions and more, in the first episode of Season 2 and the first episode of our cardiology series!

Episode 019 — Shapeshifters and suspension

What happens when you get splashed in the eyes with a veterinary tranquilizer intended for African elephants? This week on Recall Bias we're talking about opioids: nomenclature, potency, mechanisms, rare but high yield adverse effects, as well as reversal agents. We also explore the world's most common toxin-related seafood poisoning and the "Lake Wobegon effect" for EBM.

Episode 018 — Veterinary tranquilizers and sea voyages

Cocaine and wide complex tachycardia, CPR on television, which medications end up in breast milk, and practical tips for using ketamine in procedural sedation.

Episode 017 — Special K and action potentials

A deep dive into CT scanning, overdiagnosis, 'allow natural death' instead of do not resuscitate, and some messages from the illustrious law firm of Reed & Sternberg.

Episode 016 — CT scans and owl eyes

A brief history of HIV, AIDS-defining illnesses, fungal infections, disseminated tuberculosis, PrEP, writing your name on test tubes, and Alex tells us about contracting giardia and whether he recommends the experience (spoiler: he doesn't).

Episode 015 — HIV and millet seeds

Fevers over 107 degrees, covert duplication of clinical trial data, norovirus as the perfect human pathogen, smallpox, fulminant liver disease, and more.

Episode 014 — Fever over 107F

Exploding dental fillings, zoonoses, skin infections, antibiotic sledgehammers, forgotten encephalitis, treating syphilis with malaria, multi-drug resistant gonorrhea, and questioning the evidence for parachutes.

Episode 013 — Gonorrhea and parachutes

Felonious fingers, defensible disclosures, mendacious medications, diseases of dentists, alcohol aromatherapy, and pay-for-play at the CDC

Episode 011 — Influenza and isopropyl

Drilling bone, three sheets to the wind, the deadliest neurotoxins known, and the best antipsychotic drug you'll never get to use.

Episode 010 — Tetanus and snakes

Danish ditzels, cognitive effects of radiation, benevolent drug companies, and clinical trials dirtiness that'd make a vaskebjørn need to wash its hands.

Episode 009 — Heme Onc + DOACs

Hypersensitivity reactions, electric scooters, EpiPen wounds, transgenic rabbit milk, and trying to build a more ethical RCT.

Episode 008 — Hypersensitivity

New anti-clotting drugs, HIT, angioedema, overdiagnosis, surrogate markers of surrogate markers, and hedgehogs (or sea urchins?) in your bloodstream.

Episode 007 — Coagulation

Three medical students take you on a retrospective and subjective review of high-yield concepts in medicine.