The ZDoggMD Show

How can patients and caregivers cut through exaggerated claims, ignore bad advice, and tell what's real and what's not on the internet? Dr. Nina Shapiro, UCLA Professor of Head and Neck Surgery, pediatric ENT specialist, and author of "Hype" teaches us during this LIVE show! We talk about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, being a surgeon and writing a book during OR room turnover time, how doctors use Go...

Measles is back, thanks in part to the antivax industrial complex. Learn how to recognize and manage it, and Facebook supporters and Patreon supporters will get a link to take a post test and claim Continuing Education credits just for learning to stamp out pestilence! Become a supporter of the show here and you'll get access to exclusive posts on Facebook, including instructions on how to claim C...

In this live episode with YOUR comments, Tom Hinueber and I talk about the Cleveland doc who allegedly gave lethal fentanyl doses to his ICU patients, the nurse who allegedly raped a patient in a vegetative state in Arizona, New York's reproductive rights law, and why all teenage boys are pyromaniacs. You can watch the video at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-219 and become a Facebook supporter of the...

The legendary Dr. Peter Attia, MD hosts one of my favorite podcasts, The Drive, and happens to be a homie from back in my Stanford days. He dropped by Studio Z to talk about ALL the things. Peter is a world-renowned doc and expert on human performance and longevity, although even that description doesn't scratch the surface. In this in-depth co-interview, we talked about our shared medical school...

What if we had an invisible, Alexa-like assistant that functioned like a medical intern, doing the scut and freeing us to be present for our patients? Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, is building exactly that. Will it actually work, or is it one more of Silicon Valley's failed healthcare promises? We dive in! In this episode we discuss how technology can actually enable the human relationship...

An uncensored live-streamed discussion covering Star Wars, the way we treat people who've suffered miscarriages, the difficulty with showing vulnerability, the significance of hobbies, the connection between depression and social isolation/loneliness, and much more. Email comments and outrage to zubin@turntablehealth.com and watch the video at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-216 For CME/CEU in the fut...

My friend Chris Lindland (founder of Betabrand) wants to change how we dress—and therefore feel and act—at work. In this wide-ranging interview we talk about how to turn a side hustle into a calling with purpose, the beauty of letting the PEOPLE decide what they want and then building it, self-expression in conservative medical settings (tatoos, clothes, hair), and how healthcare and creativity in...

A completely #NSFW live-streamed discussion of call out culture, the Notorious AOC, flu shot efficacy, inflammation and cardiac disease, the "r" word, and much more. Email comments and outrage to zubin@turntablehealth.com and watch the video at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-214 For CME/CEU in the future become a Facebook supporter: facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Please rate and review the podc...

Dr. Amy Baxter has dedicated her career to alleviating human suffering. In this remarkable and wide-ranging discussion she teaches about the research on needle fear and whether we might, with good intentions, be creating a lost generation of needle-phobic antivaxxers. She discusses her work on non-opioid pain treatment modalities, the challenges for women in medicine and business, transitioning fr...

In this solo podcast I discuss the concept of "antifragility" as applied to children, then our healthcare system as a whole. Health 1.0 and it's transformation to 2.0 are reviewed, along with the new emergent of Health 3.0 and some illustrative lessons from my now-closed clinic, Turntable Health. I touch on the moral injury we're calling burnout as well as the curative principles of the Health 3.0...

Dr. Paul Teirstein returns to discuss an American Board of Medical Specialties report finding that Maintenance of Certification (MOC) testing is a huge burden on already overloaded physicians without providing real benefit for patient care. But they aren't going to CHANGE anything...unless we all weigh in! ABMS is asking for public comment by January 15th and WE MUST lend our voices, ZPac! Please...

Here are the crucial reasons to protect your newborn against hepatitis B, STAT. Please support the show by leaving a review on iTunes! And become a supporter on Facebook for CME/CEU moving forward at facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Video, show notes, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/ama11 Hit me with comments and feedback at zubin@turntablehealth.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

In this episode we discuss the concrete thinking used by anti-vaccine activists, and how the damage done might apply to other spheres as well. Since Tom Hinueber is involved, we also discuss free will and choice (particularly in the realms of depression and mental illness), cognitive behavioral therapy and distortions of thinking, common-enemy vs. common-humanity identity politics, what antivaxxer...

Are there real differences in how we get sick, or is it just time to "man" up? A tongue-in-cheek discussion of "man flu" from both a scientific and cultural perspective. Original live video, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-209 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over-parenting and over-scheduling our children may be causing harm. Is it time to just let kids be kids? http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-208 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our post-Christmas bloated and frazzled state, Tom Hinueber and I discuss ALL the things in planning for how 2019 is gonna transform healthcare. A podcast exclusive (ain't no video, people)! PLEASE leave a review and subscribe, it helps us A LOT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I got some new audio gear and wanted to try a podcast-only discussion (no video this time). Let me know if it works for you! zubin@turntablehealth.com Discussed items include Jon Haidt's new book, Dr. Eugene Gu's Twitter shenanigans, college campus witch hunts, and how I look like The Rock (with one teeny weeny caveat). And here's that link to become a Facebook supporter: facebook.com/becomesuppor...

Are mobile devices destroying a generation? My family tried a #ScreenFreeSunday to find out. http://zdoggmd.com/no-phones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Science is rapidly transforming our ability to quickly and accurately diagnose flu, TB, STIs and more. Dr. Dave Persing is a preeminent scientist-physician and shares his hard-earned wisdom with tha' ZPac! http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-207 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Adam Ackerman is a hospitalist at Yale and the author of a pilot study in JAMA that may transform the way we think about inpatient opioid use and pain control. LIVE from the IHI: Institute for Healthcare Improvement conference. http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-206 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Las Vegas man makes national news by developing paralysis due Guillain-Barré syndrome shortly after getting his flu shot. Should we all be scared? Here's the deal. http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-205 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s my second draft on the nurse error incident at Vanderbilt we talked about in the previous show. Is blame productive or do we need a very different culture to prevent harm to our patients while supporting our caregivers? http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-204 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A preventable mistake results in a horrific death at a major medical institution. What went wrong, and what can we do to prevent these tragedies in the future? http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-203 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MTHFR: a wretched hive of pseudoscience and villainy, exposed! http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-202 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. James Riddell, Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Michigan (and my brother-in-law) joins us to talk about improving the management of endocarditis in IV drug users. It's #TribeTeach y'all! http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-201 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices