Pairodocs' Podcasts

The Pairodocs has become a bit obsessed with MAiD lately. But in our defence, it has slid so far down the slippery slope that the insanity is laid more and more bare, for all (hopefully) to see. Cast your mind back 6 years, when COVID was not a cold, but a terrifying disease coming for us all. Like a meteor hurtling towards earth, death and destruction was on the way. Public health/the government/...

The Pairodocs have been on a bit about euthanasia recently, but please indulge us. It’s a deep subject - literally life-and-death. Since my first piece on euthanasia (“MAiD”), and then again since Julie’s more recent piece about extending it to the mentally ill, several interesting issues have bubbled up through comments and discussion. I thought these were worth fleshing out. Did someone order MA...

This is the podcast version of Julie’s recent Substack on the issue of euthanasia, or “MAiD”, and its pending extension to patients with mental diseases. Get full access to Pairodocs’ Collection of Heresy at pairodocs.substack.com/subscribe

A number of readers have asked for a podcast version of our Substacks, and I felt it was worth re-issuing this 2022 article as a podcast. It meshes, with some significant overlap, with Julie’s recent Substack on the same topic, and an upcoming (and likely our last, at least for a while) follow up by me to address some bones of contention. So if you like listening rather than reading, here you go....

I’m a slow thinker. It’s why I don’t do Twitter. It takes me a long time to come up with an opinion. I have to keep turning over an issue and looking at it from different angles. I read both sides of an argument. I often find some book on philosophy, poli sci or history that is relevant. And finally after all of that I (might) have an opinion on the subject. So it took me a while to write about th...

I was honoured that Dr. JD Haltigan agreed to speak with us for the Free Speech in Medicine Podcast. Julie (the X/Twitter-literate half of the Pairodocs) loves his tweets so much that she feels that they “are sharing the same brain”. He is fearless in following the evidence on psychopathology in modern society, and speaking about what it says, even when it leads to politically incorrect places. As...

When I started family practice in ‘99 I held flu shot clinics for several years for patients in the rural community of Lansdowne, Ontario, where I worked. I was taught that “Flu Shots Save Lives”. The government advertised them to my patients. Demand was high. The pay was good. Over the years I became more skeptical about vaccines, including flu shots. What does the science say? We learned during...

I was very honoured to speak with Dr. Kanji Nakatsu, a PhD in pharmacology and emeritus professor from Queen’s University, about the interesting and somewhat controversial subject of Vitamin D. Is D a wonder drug? Or a fad? Should we be supplementing? If so, how much? This discussion is a little technical, and perhaps not for everyone, but I hope many of you find it of interest. This should be a s...

Urban wastelands One of my friends described our hometown of Sydney’s downtown as looking more and more like a zombie apocalypse. Those who are addicted to the point of homelessness tend to migrate to larger centres. A rural community won’t put up with Joe Smith, Mike and Maggie’s son, pitching a tent in the field where the kids play baseball, leaving dirty needles around, and passing out on the g...

The watering down of language When I was a medical resident in Kingston Ontario in the late 90’s, we would sometimes receive patients from the Rideau Regional Centre. This was a residential facility or “Institution” between Kingston and Ottawa that at its peak in the mid-50’s housed over 2500 mentally handicapped people. Back then in the 90’s, the government was in the last stages of phasing out t...

Once again you have the option to listen or read. Either way, thanks for being here and I look forward to your comments and ideas. The Solution to drug addiction is unlikely more drugs Big Pharma was a Big Part of creating this crisis in the first place. At minimum it poured gasoline on a fire lit by the loss of religion, social and community connections. Yet of course Big Pharma has come up with...

(I’m posting this as a podcast as some of you have mentioned you like having an audio version. But if you prefer the traditional written format, simply continue reading…) Problems in Cottonland I moved back home to Cape Breton in 2003. CB has long been a “depressed area”, Canada’s equivalent of Appalachia, which JD Vance wrote about so well in Hillbilly Elegy . We were a coal-mining area for many...

By now most people who are tuned in to these issues have heard lots about the recent Federal Court ruling that concluded that Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act), which granted the government essentially unlimited powers to forcibly end the trucker rally in Ottawa, was unjustified. This decision amounts to a hard beat-down of Trudeau and his minions who made...

I first heard of Dr. Ken Zucker back in 2015 when the story about his firing as the head of the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s) gender dysphoria clinic first broke. The story struck me as strange. At that time he had 40 years of experience in the clinic. And as far as I could tell he was being accused of being “anti-trans”, one of the new heresies of the woke age. The clinic had ex...

Dr. Eric Payne is a paediatric neurologist. He has a degree in Public Health from Harvard, and worked at the Mayo Clinic for a number of years before returning to Canada to take a job in Alberta in 2020. A healthy society sacrifices for and protects its children. I know of no grandparent who would not willingly lay down his or her life for a grandchild. But COVID policy took such choices out of th...

(note that in this podcast I read this intro in the audio version, so if you plan to listen, you can save the time and eyestrain) The idea of “god-given freedoms” is at the basis of classical liberalism. These are often referred to as “negative rights”. I touched on this issue briefly in a previous substack . Negative rights can be thought of as freedom FROM something. The right to be left alone -...

Lisa Bildy is an important person in my life. Were it not for her and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (please consider donating!), I’m not all that sure I’d still be practicing medicine. The first time I ran into the guardrails of the increasingly narrow road of allowable free speech was in 2019. You can read some details here . We physicians pay for insurance to an organization cal...

Did you know that Anthony Fauci’s wife is the chief bio-ethicist at the National Institute of Health in the USA? Does this strike you as a little odd? Knowing that, is it somehow less surprising that vaccine mandates are “ethical” according to Fauci and his minions? Many of you who follow our Substack will already know what the Nuremberg Code is, it’s approximate history, and why it is foundationa...

FSIM is VERY honoured and blessed to have the well-known Dr. Gad Saad as our lead-off speaker for FSIM 2023 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia from the evening of October 27th to afternoon of Oct 29th. Dr. Saad is fearless. He is not bully-able. He says what he thinks, without any virtue-signalling filter. He believes what he says, and says what he believes. As a bonus, he is hilarious and fun. Over the last...

Amy Hamm is a nurse, but has training in journalism, and is an excellent writer. She has written for Quillette , the Post-Millennial , and elsewhere. However, apparently clarity of thought and communication combined with a deep knowledge of subject matter is not an appreciated skill set in the 2020’s. Amy found this out when she dared to challenge the required thinking around the very difficult an...

I remember a few years back when I first started hearing about “The Deep State”. It sounded very dark and conspiratorial. Of course, it was just the “fringe minority” who called it that, so any right-thinking person was supposed to dismiss it. But is it just a more negative name for “the administrative state” or “bureaucracy” or “the civil service”? Since Trudeau Jr. came to power in 2015, we have...

In the latest of our 2023 Free Speech in Medicine speaker interviews, I chat with Dr. Julian Somers, a clinical psychologist and researcher who trained with Dr. Bruce Alexander of Rat Park fame. (If you don’t know about Rat Park, you’ll want to take a minute to read about it). Julian’s life experience and training led him to work in the field of addictions. He has become an expert and important vo...

Dr. Ben Turner has a true old-fashioned university degree from a traditional school where they teach how, not what, to think. He has a master’s in healthcare ethics. He is a surgeon. This CV makes him uniquely qualified to talk about British Columbia’s Bill 36, which has been passed and is now being implemented. This bill should not only be of concern to British Columbians, but to all of us. It is...

Rupa Subramanya is our first guest in this year’s “Speakers Series” featuring our invited speakers who will be there in person Oct 27-29th in Baddeck, Nova Scotia for the 2nd annual Free Speech in Medicine conference. Rupa is a journalist for the Free Press, has been extensively published in papers such as Foreign Policy and The Wall Street Journal. You can follow her Podcast which she does throug...

Dr. Roy Eappen is an endocrinologist who works in Quebec, who has been doing work with DoNoHarmMedicine.org - a group founded by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb that is pushing back against wokeness in medicine. Roy has recently penned a VERY important editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal and generated a lot of useful discussion. As well, he recently manned a booth at the Endocrine Society’s an...