History Taking
History Taking is a podcast that digs into the outbreaks, missteps, breakthroughs, and quiet shifts in thinking that shaped modern medicine. Each episode uncovers a story from the past to reveal how it changed the way we understand illness and care today.
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A newborn survives open-heart surgery. The ICU is ready. But in the handover between them — a tangle of tubes, monitors, and people talking over each other — babies who had just made it through surgery were dying. At Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, surgeons filmed that transfer and found 39% of infants had errors in both equipment and information handoff at once, fresh off the bypass machine. Then two doctors watched a Formula One pit stop on TV and asked a question no one else had thoug
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