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This week is another Doctales with Cocktails and…..today we call BS on ourselves. We have done some really dumb stuff over the years and now we are laughing and sharing a FEW of the ridiculousness of our medical past. We have experienced exploding sebaceous cysts causing “something about May”, exploding speculum shrapnel and hydration on the legislature lawn. Tim has even been paid in whiskey for...

This week we continue our interview with Ben Westhoff , author of Fentanyl Inc . This week we hear about how he created an online persona on the dark web and managed to infiltrate a Chinese drug lab while posing as a drug dealer! Talk about immersing yourself fully into your work! We discuss his harrowing experience and touch on where we are going with the “war on drugs”, possible options for the...

We have touched on Fentanyl and the opioid epidemic. This week we interview Ben Westhoff , author of Fentanyl Inc . Westhoff has become the go-to expert on the subject of fentanyl and new drugs. His credits include consultation with top government officials, including the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the U.S. State Department...

This is a very somber, serious and sad story about the human element in our story about the Opioid crisis. We had the honor of interviewing our friends for this podcast so they could share their story. Just months ago, they lost their teenage son, Tanner. A scant amount of Fentanyl sprayed on a tablet of Tylenol took his life.  Everyone in the medical profession as well as the community at large w...

Woohoo, our second Doctales episode is full of cheeky fun and some of the stuff that makes us laugh. Mays doing a wine tasting while Tim is imbibing in the green fairy, stay tuned. So many funny things we hear patients say and do over the years! We keep this episode HIPPA compliant and share some of the crap we have seen and heard. We all know that patients are obsessed with taking their temperatu...

Move over Percocet, did you know that Fentanyl is the new kid in town? Things have gotten MUCH, MUCH worse with the emergence of Fentanyl and other synthetic psychotropic agents hitting the streets. This show continues on from where we left off on a previous episode discussing the rise of the Opioid epidemic. We discuss the exponential rise in fatalities,  international involvement,  general naive...

Like it or not, telehealth has fully arrived!  As Covid grappled the world, 2020  saw a dramatic rise in the implementation of telehealth services.  How has telehealth impacted you? Do you love it or hate it? We discuss the pros and cons for both physicians and patients, and share some laughs about some of our personal struggles with it. Patients: did you know there are some key vital signs and pr...

In this episode, Tim and May discuss the single biggest mistake in the history of Medicine. The overprescribing of opioids started with a five sentence letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980. This brief letter was quoted 608 times in Medical literature, espousing the safety of opiate prescribing. We dive into the history of opiates, opiate prescribing and drug abuse in general. We t...

In our first cocktails with doctales segment, we're discussing a certain topic that gives us a reason to drink… Covidiots. We're handing out awards for the dumbest Covidiots that made us laugh or just stunned us.  Everyone is trying to with what information we know. There has been good advice, bad advice, and wrong advice, so why not try to find some grace and humor out of this situation we’re in?...

When you think about going into medicine, do you think about why you chose the field? Do you look back and wonder, “I thought medicine would be so much different than I know it to be now?”  To choose a subspecialty today, you have to have an immense amount of confidence in the unknown.  Tim talks about how this can become an undercurrent of self-doubt.  It takes a ton of digging deep and honing in...

Looking back on our medical journey, Tim and I reflect on what brought us to Medicine. Tim comes from a medical family where his father was an independent GP, doing OB/anesthesia/call/everything. He understood pretty early on that medicine wouldn’t be an easy path.  I got the science bug early on but didn’t come from a family of doctors, or anyone with a college education. The pressure was real, t...

You knew we would kickoff with Covid right?! Due to the timing of the pandemic and requests from friends, we knew we had to talk about COVID-19 vaccines. We are keeping it simple and talking about normal stuff like common misconceptions, how the vaccine works and what are their side effects? Who do we think should get the shot?  And, who should not .  What we know right now is that there are 5 typ...

Both Tim and I are urgent care physicians who realized that our patients needed a raw discussion on what's happening in medicine. We are always having fun talks around our work so we figured the rest of the world would like to hear it too.  We pride ourselves on giving you a transparent, real take on medicine especially with so much misinformation being tossed around about COVID-19.  Join the real...