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Only we can redesign medicine and stop the ridiculous money games. Dr. Makary returns to rally the troops with his updated book, The Price We Pay, now available in paperback. Here's all our shows featuring Dr. Marty Makary.  Here's a link to the paperback edition of The Price We Pay.   Timecodes & Topics: 0:00 Intro 1:08 How the book induced real change by highlighting outrageous practices 4:37 Defending patients sued by hospitals and the lack of price transparency in medicine 13:33 The need for increased diversity at journals like JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine 15:04 Lobbying congress with patient stories that highlight the predatory nature of our Healthcare system and the lack of price transparency 22:07 Redesigning healthcare: ChenMed as primary care done right 41:41 The misincentive of the fee for service treadmill 44:37 We can’t wait for government to fix healthcare, WE have to do it 51:54 Do we want to live in a country where healthcare is the biggest industry and share of GDP?

What the lab leak hypothesis REALLY means, thinking about risk/benefit for vaccines and kids, and democracy vs. liberty...Dr. VP's back! Transcript, video podcast, and links to more VP shows: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-10 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A direct, non-woo discussion between two doctors about waking up from the dream that we are separate and destined to suffer. This is the first interview in our series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book “Awake: It’s Your Turn.” Get Angelo’s book and download his free meditation app here. Full video with transcript. 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 personal email response from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic in review along with why it's effectively over in the US. We talk vaccines, masks, China lab accident hypothesis, unions vs. CDC, and much more. Get the paperback updated edition of Dr. Makary's book "The Price We Pay" here: https://amzn.to/3oKPyNM Links, transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-3 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about vaccine effectiveness, how 12 anti-vax loonies are responsible for like ALL the misinformation online, the CDC's new vax-on, mask-off policy, Brazil, variants, and much much more. Video, transcript, and links: zdoggmd.com/vax-on-mask-off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's how we might think about the upsides and downsides of COVID vaccination for this group of children. Transcript, video, links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-kids Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Friday, let's talk masking, vaccines, getting back to "normal," #NursesWeek, and more, LIVE. Ways to join our Supporter Tribe: zdoggmd.com/supporters Links, audio podcast, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pandemic-update-5-7-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turns out Doc Vader can express feelings OTHER than pure rage

How can we help India while pushing towards normal in the US? The way forward, with UCSF's Dr. Monica Gandhi. Video, transcript, links to more episodes: https://zdoggmd.com/monica-gandhi-4 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to throw some cold science water on the latest craze gripping the internet. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vaccine-shedding Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking LIVE about turning the corning in the US, tearing off masks OUTDOORS, opening schools, dying alone, India's tragedy, vaccine safety, and more! Video and more: zdoggmd.com/pandemic-update-4-25-21 https://zdoggmd.com/supporters to join our Supporter Tribe

We're talking LIVE about Johnson & Johnson, vaccine passports, and much more! Transcript, video, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-9 https://zdoggmd.com/supporters to support our show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time we stopped ignoring the deadly invisible elephant in the room: our dysfunctional and outdated physician culture.  Dr. Pearl’s new book, Uncaring: How The Culture Of Medicine Kills Doctors AndPatients, is a MUST-READ. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders. Full video with transcript. Here’s our other show with Robbie where we discussed his prior book, Mistreated. Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017), the nation’s largest medical group, and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (2009-2017). In these roles he led 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts. Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery. He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford Univ

Are we TRYING to create antivaccine sentiment? Excerpted from a live show I did for my Supporter Tribe. Join us: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vaccine-booster Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can awareness and curiosity be the secret sauce to fighting our epidemic of worry and anxiety? The MOST fun you’ll have learning about mental health, I guarantee 

We talk masking for kids, vaccine passports, unwinding fear-driven policy, variants schmariants, misguided public health messaging, YouTube censorship, why scientists suck on Twitter, and MUCH more, so strap yo-selves in! Transcript, video, links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/jay-bhattacharya-2 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It looks like the association between AstraZeneca's vaccine and a rare clotting/bleeding syndrome is real. Here's what that means. Links, video, and more: zdoggmd.com/astrazeneca-clot-update Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the unimaginable occurred, this ER nurse made it her mission to warn others about the dangers of fentanyl-contaminated street drugs. Here’s a video relating to another child and fentanyl, and here’s another video on this issue that Cindy shared with me. Full video here. 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 personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The physicist responsible for the world's first commercial microprocessor knows something about artificial intelligence, and he thinks we have it all wrong

THE SKY IS FALLING! (except maybe it's not?) A rational COVID update discussion, live. I talk about vaccine safety and efficacy, variants, duration of vaccine effect, the "4th surge", kids, vaccine passports, and more. Transcript, links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-doom-update Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices