Travel Medicine Podcast

In this episode, Dr's J and Santhosh geek out once again to bring you an episode about comic book medicine while Dr J is at San Diego ComicCon. Along the way, they discuss PokemonGo, Game of Thrones (spoiler free!), Greyscale and its real world equivalents, Ichthyoses, fantasy realm public health policy, myositis ossificans and Doomsday, The Superman Pain Scale, Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, Why H...

In This Second Finale of our branching storyline foray into radio drama, events in the habitat and Mission Control come to a head! Where is Bill? How is Helmut? Will the crew be stranded on Mars? If you are just joining the party, we recommend you start from episode 1. For an alternative perspective, check out episode 4a, and dont forget to leave us ratings and reviews wherever you obtain the show...

In This first finale of our branching storyline foray into radio drama, events on the rovers take an unexpected twist when Bill escapes! What's wrong with Pat? How is Helmut? Will Tom make it in Time? If you are just joining the party, we recommend you start from episode 1. For an alternative perspective, check out episode 4b, and dont forget to leave us ratings and reviews wherever you obtain the...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward once again perform their bimonthly roundup of medical news. Along the way they discuss muppet misnomy, Chinese head transplants, Americas next top doctor, stomach taps and mad max, gunshot syringe treatment, blind emojis, chafing sticks for travel, and just the tip visit an underwater hotel in Miami. So Sit back and prepare to learn about the latest in m...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward tackle the tough topic of mental health with not one, but two fantastic guests! Along the way, they discuss the difference between psychology and psychiatry, the secret history of cereal, common mental health disorders, psych in film and tv, coping strategies abroad, mental health stigma, historical psychiatric treatments, medical harry potter spells, de...

In this Layover, Dr's J and Santhosh round up medical news from around the world and break it down for you. Along the way, they discuss fingerprinting babies, toddler terrorism, godfather baby, crying it out, baby extinguishers, studying baby sleep habits, child sleep recommendations, dr old man, PREP vaginal rings, and the return of Just the Tip with a trip to Brazil and zika proofing the olympic...

In This Episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward share travel tips and stories in a break from the medicine. Along the way, they discuss choosing your travel group, traveling solo or with people, Japan's Naked Man Festival, The cost of sumo wedgies, smuggling shingi, fishing on the zambezi, useful skillsets for traveling, flying an f16, accountabillabuddies, haggling as a team sport, kelly clarkson, tr...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward return from the holiday weekend refreshed and ready to talk about sleep medicine! Along the way they discuss sleep deprivation, creepy scientists, rich chocolaty Ovaltine, sleeppunks, REM and stages of sleep, the best nap length, sleep diaries, actigraphy and fitbits, sleep efficiency, sleep testing, jet lag, insomnia, narcolepsy, deuce bigelow, sleeping...

In this episode, Dr's J and Santhosh once again do their bimonthly roundup of medical news and research. Along the way they discuss the sexiness of physicians versus doctors, getting high on immodium, and the dangers of anti-diarrhea meds, heroin sommelier, venn diagrams, fighting sepsis with chemo, transcranial magnetic stimulation and autism, problems with mitochondrial dna in three parent babie...

Hello Travelers! This week, your captains have decided to give you some bonus behind the scenes content while they continue to work on the new episodes you know and love. In this episode, we provide the full unedited interview with Dr Kevin McNamee that inspired our series on Traditional Chinese Medicine. It contains clips that couldn't make it into the regular show due to time constraints and lea...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward continue their discussion of traditional chinese medicine, with help from special guest Dr Kevin McNamee. Along the way, they discuss dog Tindr, tongue diagnosis, eye shen, Chinese attitudes toward TCM, insult therapy, acpuncture techniques, needle phobias, danger points, meridians, tui na, moxibustion, cupping herbal medicine and more! So Sit back and p...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh and Ward continue their joint project with the Space Medicine Associates and the Canadian Space Society to present a multi part choose your own adventure style radio drama. Based on information from Season 1's space medicine episodes, and modeled on training simulations used by NASA, part 3 follows the developing crisis as our interplanetary explorers are confront...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh and Ward continue their joint project with the Space Medicine Associates and the Canadian Space Society to present a multi part choose your own adventure style radio drama. Based on information from Season 1's space medicine episodes, and modeled on training simulations used by NASA, part 3 follows the developing crisis as our interplanetary explorers are confront...

In this multi-part episode, Dr's J and Santhosh, with special guest Dr Kevin McNamee cover Traditional Chinese Medicine. In Part 1, they discuss the history, philosophy and training of eastern medicine. Along the way they discuss Dr J's command of mandarin chinese, Chinese medical legends and saints, ancient wikipedia, sovereign bodies, zang-fu organs, the five elements and medicine, captain plane...

In this layover, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward once again do their bimonthly round up of all the latest in medical news. Along the way they discuss ratatouille, tuberculosis detecting rats, WASPs and wasps, bomb sniffing insects, HIV organ transplants, african health texts, aol instant messenger, nazi sexbots, pain control alternatives, unintended chicken risks and more! So Sit back and learn what's...

(Editors Note: Hey Travelers, Dr J is a little behind in editing this week, so in response to your feedback, we are re-releasing episode 2, minus the music track that made it difficult to hear the dialogue. We will return next week with brand new episodes, so sit back and enjoy this acoustic version) In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh and Ward once again team up with the Space Medicine Associates a...

In this episode Dr's J, Santhosh, and ER Josh cover Leishmaniasis. Along the way they discuss an Israeli camping trip gone wrong, jewish mothers and social media, white leprosy, British colonialism, kala-azar and Jericho buttons, cute disease names, Dum Dum fever, medical etymology, sandflies, disease transmission and locations, diagnosis, Aladdin parodies, vampire slayers, cutaneous and viseral l...

In this layovers, Dr's J and Santhosh do their bimonthly roundup of the latest in medical news. Along the way, they discuss boaty mcboatface, odd mountain dew flavors, a brief history of diabetes, wearable glucose sensors, internet names, phone research apps and mole selfies, the abc's of dermatology, Colombian breast cancer detecting brassieres, sexual red light/green light, an update on the radi...

In This Episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward discuss Leprosy. Along the way they cover a visit to a leper colony, ballpoint pens, the best medicine, the old testament, moral afflictions, Hawaiian folklore, transmission, armadillo danger, booger boards, body part loss and camp songs, flavors of leprosy, random beer injuries, the chaulmoogra tree, the miracle of Carville, leprosy treatment and cost,...

In This layover, Dr's J, Santhosh, and Ward cover all the latest medical news in our bimonthly journal club. Along the way, the discuss Terminators and milk, HIV and PrEP drug resistance, inoculation size, new staff members, trojan horse chemo, the difficulties of origami, post antibiotic era treatments, quantum dots, electrocuting bacteria, doctor recommended tanning, color treating infection, au...

In this episode, Dr's J, Santhosh and Ward once again team up with the Space Medicine Associates and the Canadian Space Society to present a multi part choose your own adventure style radio drama. Based on information from Season 1's space medicine episodes, and modeled on training simulations used by NASA, part 2 follows the developing crisis as our interplanetary explorers are confronted with mu...

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Happy Valentines Day Travelers! In This episode, Dr's J, Santhosh, Ward, and returning guest Disaster Coordinator Ernesto do a roundup of love themed medical news for the holiday. Along the way, they discuss oven booze, spermbots and derpy sperm, Kartageners syndrome, RC cars, the sperm switch, a series of tubes, semi automatic testicles, the bionic penis, sexbots, test tubes in utero, gut ferment...