Vistopia
Cover of A Course on Illness for Everyone
A Course on Illness for Everyone
Medical knowledge, thinking, and decisions
Completed · 63 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Bo Shining: Medicine Exists to Help Us Live More Healthily Pineapple: A Better Doctor–Patient Relationship Takes Effort from Both Sides Wang Fang: Illness Is What the Body Says to Us Wang Xing: Medical Thinking Is the Shortest Distance between You and a Doctor Bonus | How Should We Seek Medical Care during a Pandemic? Bonus | Medical Basics Q&A 1. Understanding Illness: Can Anyone Go a Lifetime without Getting Sick? 2. Geographic Stereotypes: How Closely Are Disease and Environment Related? 3. Body Alarms: Do Serious Diseases Really Give No Warning? Live Preview | Wang Xing: A Shanghai Doctor's Pandemic Life and Advice 4. Health Checkups: Pointless or Excellent Value? 5. Timing Care: How Do I Know When to See a Doctor? Bonus | Pang Ying × Zhan Qingyun × Wang Xing: Should Terminal Patients Be Told the Truth? 6. Modern Medicine: Treating Disease or Treating People? Bonus | Vistopia Radio Replay: A Guide to Staying Calm at the Hospital 7. Choosing a Hospital: Top-Tier, General, Specialist, Private, or Community? 8. The Department Maze: I Truly Don't Know Which Clinic to Choose 9. Choosing a Doctor: Friends' Advice, Patient Reviews, or a Specialist Appointment? Bonus | How Doctors “Level Up” 10. Doctor–Patient Relations: With a Common Enemy, Why Is Infighting So Easy? 11. Consultation: Doctors Use a Template to Ask about Your Illness 12. Communication: How Can You Talk to a Doctor Most Efficiently? 13. Physical Examination: Is the Doctor Just Trying to Hurt You? 14. Ultrasound, CT, Blood Tests: Can Doctors Diagnose without Tests? 15. Diagnosis: Why Do Doctors Misdiagnose? 16. Medical Records: Does It Matter If You Cannot Read Them? 17. Treatment: What Makes a Treatment Plan Reasonable? 18. Medication: Beyond Never Mixing Cephalosporins and Alcohol, What Should You Avoid? Bonus | Father's Day: Supplements, Chinese Medicine, Checkups, and Family Health Consensus 19. Fluids: What Is Actually in an IV Drip? 20. Surgery: If the Doctor Recommends It, Is the Illness Very Serious? Live Replay | Duan Zhiqiang × Wang Xing: An Eight-Year Medical Degree Did Not Drive Me Mad Bonus | What Kind of People Are Surgeons? 21. What Is Overtreatment, and How Much Harm Can It Cause? Bonus | How Serious Is a Rib Fracture, and How Does It Heal? 22. Serious-Disease Risk: How Likely Is an Ordinary Person to Become Gravely Ill? 23. Mindset: When Someone Receives a Grave Diagnosis, Should They Be Told? 24. The Choice Dilemma: Why Are Medical Decisions So Hard, Yet Left to Patients? 25. Economics: Is Cost-Effectiveness Relevant When Life Is at Stake? 26. Health Insurance: Do You Understand Your Coverage When You Seek Care? 27. Preparing: What Specific Causes Do Terminal Patients Die From? 28. A Difficult Choice: When Is It Time to Let Go? 29. Caregivers: You Must Be the Sun to Illuminate the Moon 30. Wellness Scams: Your Painstaking Regimen May Be Harming You 31. Future Medicine: Will Machines Make Better Doctors Than Humans? 32. The Overlooked Roles between Doctor and Patient 33. Invisible Doctors: Unseen Does Not Mean Absent 34. Thoracic Surgery I | Are Lung Cancer and Nodules Really Increasing? 35. Thoracic Surgery II | Cancer Treatment: Operate or Not? 36. Orthopedics | Sun Haolin × Wang Xing: Can Modern Neck and Back Pain Be Cured? 37. Neurology | Mei Shanshan × Wang Xing: What Help Does Our Brain Need for Insomnia and Headaches? 38. Cardiology I | Zhao Ying × Wang Xing: How Close Are Sudden Death and Arrhythmia? 39. Cardiology II | Zhao Ying × Wang Xing: How Do 300 Million People Live with Hypertension? 40. General Surgery | Long Jiang × Wang Xing: Is Acute-Abdomen Care Really Overtreatment? 41. Psychiatry I | Jin Jin × Wang Xing: If Society Is “Sick,” Why Must I Take Medicine? 42. Psychiatry II | Jin Jin × Wang Xing: Protecting Mental Health in Exceptional Times 43. Ophthalmology | Wang Huaizhou × Wang Xing: Eyes Are Windows Not Only to the Soul, but to Disease Year-End Review | Do What You Most Want and Endure the Days When Hope Is Invisible Bonus | COVID Medication and Recovery: What Should We Do? 44. Obstetrics and Gynecology I | Zhan Ruixi × Wang Xing: Common Gynecological Conditions 45. Obstetrics and Gynecology II | Zhan Ruixi × Wang Xing: Heartbreak and New Life Both Happen Here 46. Palliative Care | Ning Xiaohong × Wang Xing: Can We Have the “Best Farewell” in China? Unfinished Words: We Doctors Never Say “Goodbye” (Finale)