What One Doctor Is Doing To Fight Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs'

With Meghna Chakrabarti

A doctor’s story of what it takes to save patients from increasingly deadly pathogens. As drug-resistant bacteria spread, can new genomic science battle back the superbugs?

Guest

Matt McCarthy, staff physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Author of “Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.” (@DrMattMcCarthy)

From The Reading List

Excerpt from “Superbugs” by Matt McCarthy

Fleming’s chance discovery of the first antibiotic is enough to spark the imagination of any child with a budding interest in science, but the discovery of the first antifungal drug is equally compelling. It’s a story about two brilliant women