Podcast: The stories of how modern medicine came to be
From the wonderfully weird and morbid to the historical figures who paved the way.
Tag: Medical History
AusDoc’s top stories of 2021: Ivermectin controversy and GP’s $1m defamation battle
We look back at another turbulent year for health care.
100 years of insulin therapy: The medical revolution sold for just a dollar
AusDoc marks 100 years since the discovery of a therapy that has saved the lives of millions.
Think COVID-19 quacks are bad? Here’s what they did for the Spanish flu
We’re researching COVID-19 in a fast-paced world with new data becoming available all the time. We track which interventions work well and which ones don’t.…
Why (male) surgeons refused to call themselves Dr
The story involves a schism with GPs more than 150 years ago in London.
Endless itching: Anzacs treated lice with their own brand of medicine
We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak…
‘If you do no harm you do nothing’: The story of a medical revolution
An excerpt from a new book tells the tale of Nobel laureate Dr Don Thomas.
COVID-19 vaccines: Why Elvis impersonators can change suspicious minds
When Elvis Presley rolled up his sleeve in October 1956 and was photographed receiving the new polio vaccine hours before his appearance on The Ed Sullivan…
Summer long reads: 6 of our best in-depth stories from 2020
What Aussie GPs actually did to patients back in 1875, the ethics of using a Nazi medical textbook and COVID-19's mad scientists
Why ridding medicine of its ‘white dude’ legacy is a bad idea
A few weeks ago, a rigorous debate erupted on social media about the alleged need to remove the names of ‘dead white dudes’ from anatomy…
