In this episode Dr. Quinn Dufurrena, internal medicine resident at Stony Brook University Hospital discusses the enigmatic condition known as “Seal Finger” and how to treat it.  

For more information read the modern article available here;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21119845

or this 1952 description here;

http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic5-4-235.pdf

Chris Martinez was the lead physician at Mcmurdo General Hospital, the primary medical facility for the United States Antarctic Program during the 2017 season.

Megan and Mike Dore help staff Mcmurdo General Hospital, the primary medical facility for the United States Antarctic Program. This interview was conducted in 2017.

Welcome back to the exploration medicine podcast, we’ve got a lot of new content coming your way, from field notes on actual expeditions to cutting edge researchers, to interviews with people in the field, and, of course our listener quick review mini-sodes. Join us on our journey to the most extreme places humans can go…

In the early 1900s two intrepid explorers with very different leadership styles, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, competed to be the first to reach the South Pole. It is an epic tale of exploration and their different approaches gives us a natural experiment to observe how well each style works in the field.

In the early 1900s two intrepid explorers with very different leadership styles, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, competed to be the first to reach the South Pole. It is an epic tale of exploration and their different approaches gives us a natural experiment to observe how well each style works in the field.

While he’s never met Santa Clause Dr. Chris Davis’s work as the former director of Polar Medicine at the University of Colorado has brought him pretty close. Dana talks current arctic medical operations with Dr. Davis and helps us get a sense of where we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past and what operations look like now.