Episodes
Here is our library of show notes for all episodes of the This Medical Life podcast. You can also find This Medical Life episodes directly in your favourite podcast app on your smartphone, or in audio streaming services like Spotify.

Episode Fourteen | EBV The Perfect Parasite
In 1958, via the world’s first epidemiological study, Dr Denis Burkitt mapped the incidence of large jaw tumours in young African Children and theorised that

Episode Thirteen | Chromosomal abnormalities | Survivable triplicates
Chromosomal abnormalities are often incompatible with life. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule and history has shown us that certain paired chromosomes

Episode Twelve | The Great Macedonian Mystery
The life of Alexander the Great is a landmark moment in history. The son of King Philip II, one of history’s greatest military conquerors, and
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Episode Eleven | Episode 11.9 [][] 9.11 edosipE
On the 11th of September, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked 4 planes and crashed 2 of them into the Twin Towers of the in New York.

Episode Ten | Pathologists | Origin Stories
Everyone has a story… Pathology is Medicine. The day-to-day challenges and opportunities in pathology are mixed and varied. Often, very much like the journey of Pathologists

Episode Nine | Transitional Crossroads
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their sex assigned at birth. Until recently, these people have too often fallen

Episode Eight | Mesothelioma An undisolvable problem
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral composed of silk-like soft flexible fibres that are resistant to fire, heat, electricity, and chemical damage. Known from antiquity

Episode Seven | Prostrate | A Seminal Problem
In 1920-1930’s, Dr Charles Huggins had an unusual problem: prostatic cancer cells appeared in his metabolic experiments that he was conducting on the Prostate of

Episode Six | Inherited bleeding disorders | Blue Bleeding
Inherited bleeding disorders before the modern era were a death sentence. Haemophilia, also known as the Royal Disease (specifically Haemophilia B), is an X-linked coagulation

Episode Five | A Pathological Addiction to Catering
The Story of Typhoid Mary An outbreak of Typhoid occurred 1906 in a wealthy family in Oyster Bay, New York. Typically, a disease of ‘deprived’ people,