The ZDoggMD Show

Looking past the politics to the state of the science on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19. Links and more: https://zdoggmd.com/hydroxychloroquine Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd...

Why something so seemingly trivial as a face mask can divide us so deeply. Video, links, full transcript and more at zdoggmd.com/masks-morality Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.c...

Building Health 3.0 will mean taking bright spots and applying them to our larger healthcare non-system. Dr. Vivian Lee is a physician, scientist, and leader who's spent much of her career implementing real change that improves real outcomes AND saves money. Her new book summarizes a long term strategy to fix healthcare. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/vivian-lee Your support makes what we d...

Class of 2020, here's the commencement address no one else is gonna give you 😘 #StayWoke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Huge losses, an addiction to elective procedures, lack of PPE...hospitals have never faced greater challenges. Should this be a chance to completely change how they do business? Dr. Todd Strumwasser is an anesthesia doc and leads multiple Northern California hospitals for Dignity Health. Video and more at zdoggmd.com/todd-strumwasser Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did the greatest country on earth end up with the worst pandemic clusterf**k? It's COVID Roundz, LIVE. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/covid-america ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/j...

Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of health policy Dr. Marty Makary helps us cut through the haze of talking heads to get to an effective, evolving, and compassionate pandemic strategy. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/marty-makary ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live dis...

Psychiatrist and mindfulness researcher Dr. Jud Brewer returns to discuss his recent study involving app-based interventions for anxiety and burnout in healthcare professionals. The results are extremely promising. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/jud-brewer-2 ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get...

What fuels conspiracy thinking and how can we behave more rationally? A live rant about "Plandemic," those Bakersfield doctors, and the allure of conspiracy thinking. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/conspiracy-plandemic ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and...

The recent suicides of healthcare workers on the front lines highlight a potential second disaster in the making. Psychiatrist Wendy Dean is an expert on Moral Injury and talks about real solutions. Video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/wendy-dean ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content,...

Gained some belly inches sheltering in place? Not sleeping? Stressed? Dr. Ron Sinha teaches us what puts us at risk for coronavirus complications and what we can do to can stay safer. Links to great resources, video, transcript, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and...

Looking at COVID-19 from a rational standpoint. Originally streamed LIVE 4/29.Here’s the piece we originally did on those Bakersfield doctors and a really good analysis by my friend, patient and safety advocate David Goldhill. And here’s all of our COVID-19 coverage. Watch this full video here! Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email...

Coronavirus disease is new, but does that mean we toss out decades of research showing better ways to keep ICU patients safe? Dr. Wes Ely returns to school us. Links and more at https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely-2 ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks...

Two ER docs in Bakersfield go viral with a "press conference" claiming they have the answers. But the truth is never black and white, and here's why. Video and links at: zdoggmd.com/covid-politics ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube:...

Zoom fatigue is yet another peril of the pandemic, and here's why. In the second half of this live show, I discuss social distancing and rational responses which have been sorely lacking. Links, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/zoom-fatigue/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're learning rapidly that COVID-19 doesn't behave like typical ARDS or viral pneumonia. Dr. Scott Weingart is an ER/Critical Care doc in New York and the host of the EMCrit podcast. He shares his insights into the changing management of coronavirus critical illness. We discuss which patients need ventilators and which do better without, the insane amount of quackery on social media, issues aroun...

Bad data = bad decisions. Here's the testing we need to do in order to make smart choices about managing the coronavirus pandemic with the least possible economic damage. Based on this must-read article by Dr. Peter Attia: https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19-whats-wrong-with-the-models/ Links and video at zdoggmd.com/antibody-testing ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-1...

We must fight to keep frontline doctors and healthcare professionals safe during this crisis, and Dr. Mehta (a radiologist and physician advocate) shows us how we can effect real change, from malpractice reform to student loan modifications and much more. Make YOUR voice heard: http://change.org/helpphysicians Links and video at zdoggmd.com/nisha-mehta ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zd...

The one shortage we can't afford is a shortage of critical thinking. A live rant on the state of our coronavirus mitigation efforts and the state of healthcare in general. You'll disagree with many points, but it's past time we talked about the hard truths here. Video at zdoggmd.com/covid-reality-check ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your support makes what we d...

Machines, tubes, wires, drugs, isolation, confusion...how can we protect the dignity and sanity of our patients when they're at their most vulnerable? Dr. Wes Ely is a Vanderbilt professor and critical care doc who can teach us how. Links to Dr. Ely's work, A2F bundle resources, and more at: https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely or https://www.icudelirium.org/ ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdog...

The legendary author of The House of God joins me again to talk about healthcare revolution in the wake of COVID-19. How can we reclaim our humanity in medicine in the face of money games and business bureaucracy that's failed to ultimately keep us safe? Links to Shem's new book and more at https://zdoggmd.com/sam-shem-covid ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19 Your...

A renowned vaccine inventor returns to talk about important challenges to the rapid development of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine. It’s not as easy as we might think. Dr. Paul Offit is Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine. Links, video, and more at: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-2 ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https...

Doctors around the country are reporting violations of their employment contracts in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. From non-competes to contract-breaching salary cuts, we talk about how physicians can fight back. Kyle Claussen is an attorney and the CEO of Resolve, a physician-founded company that provides support in contract negotiations for over 10 years. Check them out https://www.resol...

Here's our latest understanding of how the novel coronavirus is transmitted and how we could stop it, particularly in the hospital setting. Dr. Gloria Hwang is a Stanford interventional radiologist and lays down the SCIENCE. Links, citations, and more here: https://zdoggmd.com/gloria-hwang ALL our coronavirus coverage here: https://zdoggmd.com/tag/covid-19/ Your support makes what we do possible!...

To every hospital administrator who thinks it's OK to silence us during COVID-19: we will NEVER forget this. The Health 3.0 revolution begins now. #silentnomore Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon:...