The ZDoggMD Show

Happy #nursesweek to all those on the hero's journey 🙏 It's Nurses Week and you know what that means: cold pizza, heroes work here signs and tacky gifts. How about giving nurses what they REALLY need: safe staffing ratios, fair pay, freedom from workplace violence, mental health support and RESPECT. And that means leaders LEADING. To all the nurses: I get it, I hear you and I support you. It turn...

We had Doc Vader frozen in carbonite for good reason, but today MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU cuz he's offfff the chain, uncensored, and LIVE 😂. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-vader-live-5-4-22/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a person...

Why isn't everyone awakened and able to realize unfiltered reality? Turns out the mind tosses up apparent roadblocks to enlightenment. Here's how to recognize and overcome them. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-barriers/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list...

Live Q+A originally on Facebook. We talked: nurse practitioners, women vs. men, should you leave your job, helicopter parenting and safetyism, un-masked prom COVID catastrophizing, and more! Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-4-21-22/ Here's my previous episodes on Nurse Practitioners, following your path and the Turntable Health story. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tr...

Teen mental health has taken a dive over the last decade and the pandemic hasn't helped. I discuss 4 reasons why, and what we can do about it. Here's that Atlantic article mentioned and my previous episode on social media & teenage girls.  Video: https://zdoggmd.com/teen-mental-health/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and...

Should YOU do a silent meditation retreat? Dr. Angelo DiLullo & I recently held a 6-day retreat with 30 healthcare folks from our audience, and here's what happened 🤯 Video: https://zdoggmd.com/meditation-retreat/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for futur...

Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult...for a medication error. It was a tragic error that many nurses have told me could have happened to many of them: crappy tech, poor systems, understaffing, and human error leading to the death of a vulnerable patient. And now we have the conviction of a nurse on criminal charges fo...

The boys are back in town 😂 and we talk COVID policy failures, fact-checking fallacies, criminalizing nurse Radonda Vaught's fatal med error, Twitter "experts," safetyism, fixing healthcare efficacy and costs, and MUCH more. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/prasad-makary/ Here's all our shows with Marty Makary. Here's The VPZD Podcast.   Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Fact-checking the facts, COVID policy fa...

The US Senate just voted to make Daylight Savings Time (DST) permanent. Sleep doctors think this is unsafe, and here's why. Check out the position paper from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). And check out this interview I did with pediatrician Dr. Blair Duddy on why teens need later school start times and more sleep. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/daylight-savings/ Video archive, audio p...

Awakening from the dream of separation and suffering may be as simple as looking for WHO is trying to wake up. Who ARE you? Using self-inquiry (like meditation on steroids) to unlock your true identity. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/self-inquiry/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for...

A Swedish study is causing anxiety among many that mRNA vaccines can insert into our DNA. Here's what's REALLY going on. Here's the study. Here's a good outline of reverse transcriptase and integrase. And here's another piece on viral genome integration. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-dna/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: ...

I finally deleted my Twitter account, here's why. Also, Putin, Boosters, and more, LIVE. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-2-27-22/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn...

You don’t have to be a writer or “creative” type to channel authenticity and spontaneity in your life and work. A fascinating conversation with book & television writer Johnny B. Truant. Watch our prior show on changing your life story, get Johnny's book The Story Solution here, and check out his multimedia story studio. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/creativity/ Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro, how st...

A deep dive discussion of the effects of race in healthcare and beyond. Dr. Ian Tong is a Black physician, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford, and the Chief Medical Officer of Included Health. We explore stereotype threat, biological weathering, equity vs. equality, structural racism in America, bias in healthcare and medical admissions, the effects of zip code & social determinants of hea...

It's time to get back to living life. A discussion, LIVE.Join our Supporter Tribe on Locals here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sunday-live-2-13-22/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.co...

Daniel Schmachtenberger studies existential risk. Here's how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, and built environment promote well being rather than divisional apocalypse. Video, topic list and timecodes, and transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/daniel-schmachtenberger Here's more about Daniel and details on his Consilience Project.  Video arc...

Storywriting expert and author of over 100 books Johnny B. Truant teaches us how we can use story to completely reinvent our lives. Get his book The Story Solution here. Check out his multimedia story studio. And watch a related video I did on The Great Resignation during COVID. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/the-story-solution/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership,...

Have you had a profound glimpse of awakening/enlightenment but you're afraid to dive deeper (or you don't know how)? Here's a direct guide to further exploring your true nature. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-doubt/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list fo...

A deep dive into actually FEELING emotion as part of the process of awakening. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-emotion/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos w...

Episode 2 of our Pain Points series with the OTHER Dr. Z! In this episode we dive deep into what "mild" Omicron infection means, why depression is biopsychosocial ALWAYS, how to manage imposter syndrome & insomnia, and why benzodiazepine medications are often a disaster. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pain-points-2/ See all our episodes with Dr. Rachel Z here. Grab her outstanding...

Boosters for the young and healthy? Is Pharma dictating public health policy? What's up with VAERS? Did Robert Malone invent the mRNA technology? AND MORE. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-8Check out our other shows with Dr. Paul Offit here. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:07 Boosters, the CDC, vaccine advisory committee & 3rd dose drama 05:25 Offit's son, The Atlantic...

Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor), Dr. Monica Gandhi and I team up to drop some mad COVID science. Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here.   Topics & Timecodes:Severity of infection from Omicron—reviewing the data [5:15]; Factors contributing to the relative mildness of Omicron infections [8:30]; Is SARS-CoV-2 evolving to cause l...

Lots to talk about this week, so LET'S DO THIS 🔥. Originally streamed LIVE to Youtube: zdoggmd.com/covid-update-1-14-22 Topics & Timecodes:00:00 Intro 00:38 Tribalism, the hive mind & social media 04:44 Alt-Middle & holding beliefs loosely 06:53 Vax on vax violence, friendly fire & today's Twitter storm 15:10 My conversation with Karen Ernst, healthy discourse, seeing the human behind the handle...

Lately there's been an awakening on the part of hardcore Covidians: Omicron done changed the game, so is it finally time to chill? Here's my take. Check out the Atlantic op-ed I reference here. And here's a story from San Francisco that illustrates the power of vaccination to stop severe disease and the power of dumb public policy to create hospital staffing shortages nonetheless. Video, transcrip...

Could the Omicron wave be the beginning of the end of this? What the science so far means for mandates, schools, and more. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/omicold/ Here's a piece I did previously about shifting from pandemic to endemic illness. Here's the podcast I mentioned that I did with Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Marty Makary on this. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Hospital...