Accidentally saving 200 Million Lives, Being a Gladiator Physician, Saving Lives on the Battlefield, and Deadly Water Pumps with Tyler Owens

Today, we're joined by my friend Tyler Owens and we decided to take it back to talk about healthcare professionals from history that have revolutionized the field in some way. I'm not a big history person, but in this conversation with Tyler, I realized just how crazy it is to understand how far we've come in medicine over 1000s of years. We go back in time all the way to the 1st century AD to look at Galen who provided a MASSIVE amount of knowledge into medicine. Apparently, Galen's procedure to treat cataracts is actually similar to how it is done in modern-day, 2000 years later which is insane. We then move into the 1800s to look at Clara Barton, who is often called the Florence Nightingale of the US for saving countless lives on the battlefield and is also known for founding the Red Cross. I don't want to spoil too much of the episode, but we also talked about the famous epidemiologist John Snow, as well as talked about Alexander Fleming and how he saved hundreds of millions of lives from his accidental discovery. I hope you enjoy!

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