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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 Gre

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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.
Unknown Host hosts History Taking, a history show with 12 episodes published.

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 Gre

By February 1855, four out of every ten soldiers admitted to Scutari Hospital died there — and the wounds weren't the problem. The building was. Cholera, dysentery, and typhus tore through wards built atop a dammed sewer

In 1929, a twenty-five-year-old German intern named Werner Forssmann numbed his own arm, slid a urinary catheter into a vein at his elbow, and walked sixty centimeters of tubing into his own beating heart — then strolled

On the morning of March 3rd, 1876, Mrs. Allen Crouch was making soap in her Kentucky yard when chunks of flesh — some as big as her hand — began falling from a cloudless sky. Her grandson thought it was snow. The shower

In 1995, a NICU nurse in Massachusetts broke hospital policy to save a dying newborn. Brielle Jackson, born at 27 weeks alongside her identical twin Kyrie, was crashing — oxygen dropping, heart rate plummeting, nothing w

A doctor cultures a batch of bacteria and drinks it — not on a dare, but because no ethics committee or journal would let him prove his theory any other way. In the early 1980s, Australian physician Barry Marshall was co

A 12-year-old girl took extra strength Tylenol for a cold and was dead before she reached the hospital. Within hours, six more people across Chicago collapsed the same way — all after swallowing capsules from different s

The US government had two problems: Americans were getting sicker, and there was too much cheese. By the late 2000s, federal dairy subsidies had left the country sitting on hundreds of millions of pounds of surplus chees

In 1747, the cure for scurvy was sitting in a barrel of lemons — and almost nobody believed it. On the HMS Salisbury, sailors were bleeding from the gums, old wounds were reopening, and men were too weak to stand. Naval

What happens when a government turns a vaccination campaign into a spy operation? During the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the CIA launched a real hepatitis B campaign in Abbottabad, Pakistan — not just to immunize children,

In 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea walked into the streets of Strasbourg and started dancing — no music, no reason. She didn't stop for days. Her neighbors laughed, then worried, then joined in. By August, as many as 40

History Taking is a podcast about stories that have shaped modern medicine from the outbreaks, missteps, breakthroughs, and ideas that have quietly changed how we understand illness and care.
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