Introducing Patient Zero
Patient Zero
NHPR
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to start with some personal questions. How many door handles have you touched today? |
| 0:09.0 | How many times did you touch your face? |
| 0:12.0 | Did you use your face? |
| 0:13.0 | Did you use the subway? |
| 0:15.0 | Board a plane. |
| 0:17.0 | Did you kiss your partner? |
| 0:18.0 | Take a swim. |
| 0:19.0 | Have sex? |
| 0:20.0 | Share a glass. Pet a dog. |
| 0:21.0 | Use the computer. When you're solving a medical mystery, it can be hard to know where to start. |
| 0:28.2 | Doctors and their white coats give off an aura of certainty and authority, but the truth is, they sometimes know less |
| 0:33.9 | about what's going on inside your body than they let on. |
| 0:37.1 | And when you're confronting something totally new, |
| 0:39.6 | there is a lot of room for guesswork. |
| 0:42.4 | Coming this summer from NHPR, Patient Zero, |
| 0:45.0 | a podcast investigating the spaces where people and pathogens collide. |
| 0:50.0 | People talk all the time, and say, |
| 0:51.0 | oh, someday we're going to run out of antibiotics. |
| 0:53.8 | Someday, someday is here. |
| 0:56.0 | Anything that's too good to be true in medicine is too good to be true. |
| 0:59.4 | Don't trust any new treatment that doesn't have a credible placebo comparator. |
| 1:04.4 | This therapy cost $800,000. |
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