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Travel Medicine Podcast

In this episode, Dr’s J and Santhosh begin a series about the importance of vital signs, this time with a focus on temperature. Along the way they cover accidental surname reveals, gum commercials, the first doctor to take tempuratures, Dr Wunderlich, the origin of the 98.6 measurement and the definition of fever, boy bands, the new normal body temp, a history of thermometers and more! So sit back and relax cause it’s about to get hot as we teach you about fevers!

Sources
https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555
https://www.livescience.com/why-has-average-human-temperature-changed.html
https://sci-hub.do/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4457716?seq=1

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