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This is Lindsay Smith-Roggers.

Today, the hidden truth in science fiction.

Dr. Jack Iwashnia is a Bloomberg distinguished

professor at Johns Hopkins and an intensive care physician. His son, Sage Iwashnia, is a pastry

chef in the Baltimore area. They like to talk about what iconic sci-fi movies get wrong about

health care. And today, they speak with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about some

classic scenes and how these errors actually reflect problems in the present day. Let's listen.

Sage and Jack, it is my pleasure to welcome you both to public health on call. We're headed into

the world of science fiction and what that world can reveal about ours.

You guys have been watching movies together for a while. Sage?

Yeah, uh, you sense, probably my birth would be my guess.

Um, you know, that's, it's always been a thing that our family has bonded over is sci-fi and just generally media.

And so, Jack, when did medical questions start creeping up in the family discussion of movies?

That's not a typical experience.

So I suspect, Josh, that it's been all along.

We did Science Olympiad relatively early as a family,

and I, like, taught disease detectives. And so, you know, we had some sort of family jokes,

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