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A medical humanities podcast. As the podcast of medhum.org, our mission is to explore the human condition as expressed through medicine, literature, and the arts.
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For this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, Dave and Luki read Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler. The book focuses on the quirks and challenges in the education system the author witnessed as a visiting professor in China. At the end, Dave and Luki reflect on an entire year of reading books about China, and how they feel at the end of this journey. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/
In this episode, Luki Danukarjanto takes a sympathetic approach to the idea that attitude can be a decisive factor in a patient’s recovery, and even survivability, from a disease. The clinician in Dave prevents him from taking the same route, offering a much more skeptical view. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/
In this episode of Apollo on Call, Dave is joined by Luki Danukarjanto to discuss Atul Gawande’s book on end-of-life care, as well as relate it to their aging parents and their own experience getting older. They also examine the medical perspective to the situation — is well-being or survival the goal of end-of-life care? Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/
In this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. The focus is on the children that were trafficked from China to the United States as a result of the CCP’s one-child policy and women's rights in China. Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/
Having finished watching season one of The PITT, Dr. Hsu and Dr. Stuart Harman reconvene to review the season, this time with spoilers on! Theme music: Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt, performed by Dr. Justina Sam
This month, on a special Medhum X Sports Literati collaboration, Dave is joined by his sports book reading buddy David Bryant to discuss one of the seminal medical humanities books which also happens to be a sports book: The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese. For more sports book discussions involving the two Daves, please check out The Sports Literati podcast !
Apollo On Call reconvenes to discuss The PITT, the medical drama that everyone is talking about. Dr. Hsu welcomes his pop culture expert co-host Dr. Stuart Harman to dissect what might be the most realistic medical drama ever. Theme music: Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt, performed by Dr. Justina Sam
This month, we look at The Remarkable Life of Ibelin , the award winning documentary about a Norwegian man named Mats Steen who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy but lived a full life in the virtual video game universe of World of Warcraft. Intro and outro music is Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt, performed by Dr. Justina Sam
In the premiere episode of Apollo On Call , our hosts David Hsu and Luki Danukarjanto meet to discuss Siddhartha Mukherjee's award winning 2010 biography of cancer.
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