People of Pathology Podcast

Episode 118: Dr Ralph Hruban - A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine

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Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ralph Hruban

What we discuss with Dr Ralph Hruban :

  • The original idea for his new book, A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine,  and why he chose to write it at this time
  • How the book grew from his Hopkins at Home lecture series
  • Why he chose to include those with a connection to Johns Hopkins
  • The writing process, and some new things he learned while researching the book
  • Why it was important to show how some of the people in the book faced racism and sexism
  • Why it was important to highlight not only accomplishments, but flaws as well
  • How the stories of the fight against Yellow Fever and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic have parallels to the fight against COVID-19
  • How his perspective of history changed as a result of writing this book
  • His thoughts on what may be his next project

    • Links for this episode:

    Health Podcast Network

     LabVine Learning

    Doctors on Social Media

    The ConfLab from LabVine

    Dress A Med scrubs

     

    A Scientific Revolution on Amazon

    The Great Influenza on Amazon

    Peabody Library

    Lessons For Today From Nine Greats Lecture Series

     

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