Curated playlist
Medical specialties
- PediatricsParis opened the first hospital just for children in June 1802. It took patients up to age fifteen.
- CardiologyWerner Forssmann ran a catheter into his own heart and got fired for it. He later won the 1956 Nobel Prize for that act.
- NeurologyNeurology covers stroke, epilepsy, migraine and dementia under one specialty.
- DermatologyA dermatologist may treat a life-threatening skin emergency one day and inject cosmetic filler the next.
- GastroenterologyIn 1868, Adolf Kussmaul refined his gastroscope technique on a sword swallower.
- ImmunologyImmunology began when Ilya Mechnikov pushed thorns into starfish larvae. Cells gathered around the wound.
- OncologyAround 3000 BCE, Egyptian physicians wrote down a bulging breast tumor.
- HematologyHematologists take over when someone is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or a dangerous clot.
- PsychiatryPsychiatry's name literally means the medical treatment of the soul. A German physician coined it in 1808.
- RadiologyRadiology now includes methods that use no radiation at all. Ultrasound and MRI join X-rays in the field.
- UrologyUrology also covers the male reproductive system. The urinary and reproductive tracts are physically intertwined.
- DentistryNeanderthals drilled a tooth at least 49,000 years ago, a paper reported in May 2026.
- SurgeryIn 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis forced medical students to wash their hands.