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Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine gastroenterologist Deborah Proctor, who reflects on her decades of work in Honduras and how her approach to service has shifted from short-term medical missions to sustained, community-driven partnership. Harlan reports on an AI breakthrough with implications for the security of healthcare systems; Howie marks National Public Health Week with a look at two centuries of major public health gains.

Show notes:

AI Breakthrough

Anthropic: Project Glasswing

"Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity 'Reckoning'"

Glasswinged Butterfly

"Cybersecurity incident forces Brockton Hospital to use paper records"

Thomas Friedman: "Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign" 

Hard Fork podcast

Deborah Proctor

Gastroenterologist

Honduras Children's Project

Deborah Proctor: Every Child Counts: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty by Educating One Child at a Time

Voluntourism

Teletón

Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Public Health Progress

National Public Health Week

World Health Day

Life Expectancy

History of smallpox vaccination

Cholera in Victorian London

"A History of the Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health"

"Australia's Social Media Ban for Children Takes Effect"


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