The ZDoggMD Show

This podcast will melt your brain, which could be OK because neurons are just symbolic representations of a deeper reality according to our guest, Professor Donald Hoffman. In this wide-ranging discussion we talk about visual perception (and ALL perception) as a construction, rather than a reconstruction, and we dive into free will, synesthesia, split brain experiments, consciousness as the fundam...

Nurses assaulted, attempted rape...what can we do to change the culture? #silentnomore http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-174 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young CT surgeon unexpectedly finds himself the subject of false public accusations by a patient's lawyer. Rather than letting his fledging career be destroyed, he decided to fight back. Here's what happened, along with advice for others in healthcare who've seen their reputations falsely attacked. A fascinating discussion and an audio-only Incident Report. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/06/health/...

Straight Thuggin' on #ForceFriday snitches! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a general rule, here's why you shouldn't drink your calories. http://zdoggmd.com/ama09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sensational story just appeared on CNN about a young woman whose family says she was kidnapped by the Mayo clinic. Can we talk about this? https://www.cnn.com/…/mayo-clinic-escape-1-eprise/index.html zdoggmd.com/incident-report-173 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I interrupt your regularly scheduled boring ZDogg claptrap with a SPECIAL DARKSIDE TRANSMISSION. -Love, Doc Vader https://www.facebook.com/docvadermd/videos/1025731934255764/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix's new documentary "The Bleeding Edge" has a lot of people on edge regarding the safety of medical devices and their potentially insufficient regulatory oversight. Here's what I think the you really need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fascinating deep-dive with into the ethical dilemmas around brain death—particularly as it relates to organ donation—featuring a world expert on the subject. The perfect companion piece for AMA 07: zdoggmd.com/organ-donation Full transcript, links, and more at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-172 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Organ donation myths, debunked. More info and a MUCH deeper-dive interview with Stanford biomedical ethics professor David Magnus, a world expert on brain death and organ donation, here: http://zdoggmd.com/organ-donation ... We also talk about an error in terminology I made in this video (it isn't "harvest", it's recovery...) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chief of Head & Neck Surgical Oncology at UCSF joins us again to drop more mad knowledge about cancer, HPV, and more. He also answers questions you posed after his first live interview with me a year ago. http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-171 for video with timecode content list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The acclaimed Stanford professor and author of Cutting for Stone, My Own Country, and The Tennis Partner joins me to talk MAD TRUTH about the intersection of medicine and simply being human. Video, full transcript, topic list, links, and more at http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-170 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Holly Tabor is Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics and Education at Stanford and she joins us to talk biomedical ethics, how the medical system can better serve patients with disabilities such as autism, and a shocking finding from a Special Olympics study. Breakdown of topic by timecode here: http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-169 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

Dr. James Riddell joined me on the beautiful island of Oahu to talk about his editorial released today in JAMA on new guidelines for the management of HIV. Not only is he Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan, but he just so happens to be my brother-in-law. ID-Dogg in the hizzle, y’all! http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-168 for links and mor...

Hospitalist, philanthropist, and documentary producer Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider balances a clinical career with a passion for transforming public perception around end-of-life care. Our wide-ranging interview includes her insights on Extremis and End Game, two Netflix documentaries she helped produce, as well as her work with the End Well Symposium. More at shoshanaungerleider.com and endwellprojec...

To my patients: I wasn't planning on getting so angry, but here's why we've been forced to go from connecting...to clicking. Join the movement to rehumanize medicine: zdoggmd.com/list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A nurse practitioner and mother leaves her child to die in a sweltering car. How could she? Here's how. http://zdoggmd.com/fatal-distraction/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We released our fourth episode of our new Against Medical Advice (AMA) series on the evidence-supported medical applications of cannabis and received a ton of comments, some awesome and some SEVERELY high. So I assembled my crew to talk about it some more. http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-166/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's cut through the haze (and the hype) surrounding medical marijuana. Here's what you need to know... http://zdoggmd.com/medical-marijuana Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's your baby's first shot, and some folks refuse it out of fear. Here's why that's a terrible idea. http://zdoggmd.com/newborn-vitamin-k Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The unspoken truth I want my patients to know about so-called "heroic" measures at the end-of-life. Please talk with those you love about your wishes. It always seems too soon...until it's too late. http://zdoggmd.com/end-of-life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antivaxxers say the government admits that vaccines cause autism because of the Vaccine Injury Court and the case of baby Hannah Poling. As usual, they have it dead wrong...here's why. http://zdoggmd.com/vaccine-court Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom's family had a REALLY tough weekend. What would YOU do in this situation, ZPac? Have you encountered similar stories? http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yet another secretly-filmed viral clip emerges of an emergency physician and a patient...here's my take. http://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-164 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Andrea Paul, MD started BoardVitals to help medical professionals prepare for tests and save time. Our talk includes medical entrepreneurship, living up to parental expectations, and how their #GiveVax program donates vaccines to needy communities. And ZPAC! BoardVitals is showing their love by giving y'all a chance to win a BoardVitals Bash. They'll throw the winner a pizza party at your work...