Apollo On Call Podcast by medhum.org

Episodes 7

Avg. Duration 52m

Activity Highly Active

Since Feb 2025

Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule

Quarterly

Format

Episodic

Hosting

anchor.fm

Contact & Outreach

Sign up to view contact info

About This Podcast

A medical humanities podcast. As the podcast of medhum.org, our mission is to explore the human condition as expressed through medicine, literature, and the arts.

Explore Statistics

English Podcasts Report Health & Fitness Report Medicine Report English Health & Fitness Report

Recent Episodes

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Mar 10, 2026 1h

In this episode of Apollo on Call, Dave is joined by Luki Danukarjanto to discuss Atul Gawande’s book on end-of-life care, as well as relate it to their aging parents and their own experience getting…

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick

Jan 06, 2026 37m

In this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. The focus is on the children that were trafficked from China to the United States as a result…

S1E5 The PITT Season One Spoiled!

Sep 02, 2025 52m

Having finished watching season one of The PITT, Dr. Hsu and Dr. Stuart Harman reconvene to review the season, this time with spoilers on! Theme music: Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt, performed by Dr.…

The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese

Jun 02, 2025 55m

This month, on a special Medhum X Sports Literati collaboration, Dave is joined by his sports book reading buddy David Bryant to discuss one of the seminal medical humanities books which also happens…

S1E3 How real is The PITT?

Apr 28, 2025 51m

Apollo On Call reconvenes to discuss The PITT, the medical drama that everyone is talking about. Dr. Hsu welcomes his pop culture expert co-host Dr. Stuart Harman to dissect what might be the most…

S1E2 The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Apr 16, 2025 48m

This month, we look at The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, the award winning documentary about a Norwegian man named Mats Steen who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy but lived a full life in the…

S1E1 The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Feb 18, 2025 48m

In the premiere episode of Apollo On Call, our hosts David Hsu and Luki Danukarjanto meet to discuss Siddhartha Mukherjee's award winning 2010 biography of cancer.