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Medical Mysteries Across History
- Narrated by: Roy Benaroch MD
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
In medical school, every patient is a teaching case - and every patient can be your teacher. For hundreds of years, medical students around the world have learned the secrets of medicine by looking at real cases, involving real people and featuring real symptoms.
But what happens when those medical cases are a mystery? How do doctors diagnose illnesses and save lives using the best knowledge they have about health and disease? What differences (and similarities) are there between the ways doctors work today and the ways they worked thousands of years ago?
In these 10 eye-opening lectures by a practicing doctor and medical educator, you’ll walk through a series of medical mystery cases ripped from history and involving well-known historical figures whose identities are nevertheless hidden from you. Every one of these cases (featuring presidents, scientists, singers, kings, and queens) requires you to use your detective skills to identify and diagnose the mystery patient just like the doctors that attended them. In the process, you’ll learn fascinating insights into medicine: both the medicine that was practiced thousands of years ago and the medicine doctors practice today.
What are the historic and modern consequences of fever? How do doctors diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease and alcoholism? How does radiation and heavy metal poisoning affect the human body? What so-called “modern” diseases were actually documented in the ancient past? Solving these mystery cases will give you a new perspective on how the human body works - and on some world-changing figures whom you’ve never viewed from a doctor’s point of view.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-09-22
fantastic
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this. Roy Benaroch MD is fantastic at pitching what could be quite mundane into something interesting and intriguing.
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- toby moate
- 29-08-22
Fun...and informative.
However, if you are a doctor and interested in history as I am you can guess the mystery people quite quickly...and SOME of the diagnoses. Still fun to listen to.
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- su through the looking glass!
- 30-11-21
interesting but narration from Sesame Street
l enjoyed this as an interesting listen but it was a bit patronising tbh and the narration, although clear,was like a children's TV presentation.
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- Phew.
- 31-01-23
Delightful, accessible, heart warming and ...
soooooo interesting.
Fantastic way of approaching a topic. Loved this audio book. Kept me guessing and being taught. Just lovely. Recommended.
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- Leonor
- 19-08-21
Incredible insights, great value
As a medical student I believe this book helped me a lot to better understand how to gather all the clues necessary to solve a complex medical case. Great narration, amazing insights and a lot of valuable information learnt.
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- Claire Bellavia
- 04-02-23
Fascinating and gripping
Really enjoyed this series of medical mysteries and their unravelling.
Great narration too. Look forward to the next one.
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- Kindle Customer 007
- 19-01-22
Revisiting history.
Well presented investigation into historical deaths. Thought provoking examples that have current day relevance.
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- Mayokun Ajayi
- 15-10-22
Would recommend
Very insightful and informative, showcasing how medicine and history intertwine, detail goes into a good extent and key terminology is used
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- Nay W.
- 01-07-23
Awesome listen.
Great activity, trying to guess who’s life is being explained and what illness they had.
Real easy listen and kept me hooked!
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- Sigrin
- 10-10-21
That was good
Despite the American accent (I am not a fan) this was a great little book.
As it says, it presents ten case histories from famous people prior to their death over the centuries.
It engages you to look at the signs and symptoms from the time, listen to the medical history and facts surrounding their life and death and then give an up to date diagnosis with the facts that you know now rather than what they knew then.
It was an interesting reflection on the treatments used by the medical personnel with their understanding and knowledge at that time.
Very entertaining, thank you.
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