In medicine, there’s an old rule: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses and not zebras.

We listen for zebras.

Welcome to Hoofbeats, the show that follows the strange paths of real medical cases. Each episode a specialist walks us through the moments that made them stop and say, “This is not what I thought it was.”

We start with the doctor, not the diagnosis, then dig into the science, the story, and the decisions that changed everything. Because the critical clue is not always in the chart.

Sometimes it is in how someone thinks.

In medicine, there’s an old rule: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses and not zebras.

We listen for zebras.

Welcome to Hoofbeats, the show that follows the strange paths of real medical cases. Each episode a specialist walks us through the moments that made them stop and say, “This is not what I thought it was.”

We start with the doctor, not the diagnosis, then dig into the science, the story, and the decisions that changed everything. Because the critical clue is not always in the chart.

Sometimes it is in how someone thinks.