Patrick Kelly

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Well-researched video essays about the history of medicine and healthcare. ☠️NONE OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS CHANNEL SHOULD BE USED AS MEDICAL ADVICE OR OPIN...

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The First Billion Dollar Drug Wasn't What You Expect

Nobody Knows How Acetaminophen Works (Paracetamol)

From Poison to Cure The $13 Billion Medicine Revolution

This Tablet Accidentally Revolutionized Drug Design

Ozempic's Origin Story is Insane

The Birth of Biotech Recombinant DNA, Genentech, and Insulin Analogs

Why Only 3 Companies Make America's Insulin

The Origins of Insulin

The Origin of Aspirin From Willow Bark to the Pharmacy Shelf

How Pharmaceutical Patents Make Drugs Expensive

The Origin Story of the Placebo Effect

Anthrax The Ancient Killer That Helped Prove Germ Theory

Why Are There So Many Antihistamines 🤧💊

What Happened to Appendectomies

Can Phages Save Us From Superbugs

Antibiotic Resistance How Humans Ruined Miracle Drugs

The Antibiotic That Saved Millions and Built a Pharma Giant

Streptomycin The Controversy over the First Tuberculosis Antibiotic (Schatz vs Waksman)

Penicillin From Fleming to the Pharmacy

Sulfa Drugs the Rise and Fall of Sulfanilamide

What Was The First Antibiotic

The Origin of the Stethoscope

The Origin of the Rabies Vaccine

Louis Pasteur vs Robert Koch The History of Germ Theory

Miasma Theory, Explained

The Story of John Snow & the Broad Street Pump

The Four Humors, Explained

The Dark Story of Phrenology

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How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer