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Author: Drs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania

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Two doctors, one podcast, Alt-Middle as heck. Featuring Dr. Vinay Prasad (host of Plenary Session) and Dr. Zubin Damania (host of The ZDoggMD Show).

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Famous docs who can’t process evidence, prior authorization in healthcare and care variation, private equity and gray areas in medicine, the decline of academic medical centers, indoctrination in education, does Paxlovid actually work in populations that matter and the biases of observational trials, fake twitter medical experts, why hospital maintenance workers have more common sense than healthcare leadership, Cochrane mask review, CDC director masking comments and ivermectin, politics in science and why politicians simply can’t be honest, and more! Video here. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We were both victims of the "tripledemic" and now have Long Cold but we're BACK! In Episode 30 we dive into the recent focus on sudden deaths and cardiac arrest in athletes such as Damar Hamlin and whether vaccine causation can be attributed as many online "experts" insist, Vinay's new myocarditis paper, FDA withholding Moderna human data from advisory committee members during bivalent EUA approval, do medications really "expire" and much more! Video: https://youtu.be/DOQF2JNZug4 Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The boys are back in town 🔥. We talk about the future of social media, Elon Musk's Twitter, misinformation policing failures, metabolic health, being your authentic self and more.  Here's VP's Sensible Medicine article we referenced. Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Verbal & non-verbal communication, listening & presence 02:43 The future of social media, Zuckerberg, Elon's authenticity, Twitter & the blue checkmark disaster 10:49 Z's alleged 30-millionaire status, calculating net worth, the importance of supporting content & creators you care about 14:54 Sensible Medicine & VP's Misinformation Police article, suppression of ideas vs. presenting a better counter-argument, the far left & tribal identity 27:08 Terrible midterm election predictions, Dr. Oz's inauthenticity & subsequent loss, pseudo-science "influencers" 33:26 America's Frontline Doctors & Simone Gold's alleged implosion 35:02 Masking kids & NEJM's paper, observational vs randomized control trials, bad science & its overlap with politics, myocarditis, MedScape & the attack on Mandrola 46:30 Insulin resistance, the pros & cons of glucose monitoring as "health entertainment", metabolic health, cold plunge 1:07:53 Bob Califf tweets & long Covid claims, Ashish Jha changes his tune 1:13:36 Authenticity, being seen for who you authentically are, ZDadd tech support, post-meditation retreat realizations 1:25:23 Predictions on the approaching world shift, final thoughts Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ZD visits VP studios for a broad discussion about colonoscopy, Florida's surgeon general Ladapo and Science magazine, the new oath taken by UMN medical students during their White Coat ceremony, and MUCH more. The only thing missing is VP's signature black leather jacket 🔥 Watch VP's breakdown of the NordICC colo trial here, here, and here. Read UMN's white coat oath and learn more about Ladapo and the Science magazine editorial here. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We discuss firing of the NYU professor who's class was too hard, the problems with screening for medical school admission, Dr. Glauckomflecken's maskless Twitter selfie thing and the nature of virtue signaling, why JEDI aren't woke enough according to Scientific American (cuz eugenics of course), a recent study on personality changes due to the pandemic, CRAZY liberal arts college masking policies, and much more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
VP and ZD celebrate the return of in-person conferences, lament the challenges of continued mandatory masking in healthcare settings, and talk about better ways to get at truth (yeah, I'm kinda phoning in the summary of this dope discussion this time, just listen already 😂 #quietquitting) Video: https://youtu.be/B7V1RelMXwA Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Labor Day Special! CDC recommends bivalent Omicron-specific boosters for everyone, the madness of the CO2 meter crowd, journalism's challenges, mean attending physician comments, the evolution of language, and more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The saga of Dr. Leana Wen, omicron-specific boosters for the fall, low uptake for vaccinating kids <5 years old, is the American Academy of Pediatrics a broken and failed organization (read Vinay's article on Sensible Medicine here), Novak Djokovic and US vaccine mandates, inauthenticity and Dr. Oz, student loan forgiveness, the Thailand kids vaccine study and much more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How can you determine who is trustworthy when it comes to medical information? Our new project "Sensible Medicine," untangling the complexities of health care reform, angry doctor Covidian tweets with magical thinking and religiosity, the dangers of over-testing and over-treatment with regards to routine blood work, Haidt’s 3 Great Untruths and cognitive distortions, pandemic response effect on true progressives, the consequences of ideological possession, how Vinay reviews the trustworthiness of sources, the difficulties of “debunking”, the monkeypox situation, and much more! Video: https://youtu.be/jmebULFQWyw Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We deep dive into how our tribal divisions influence interpretations of science, ethics, and policy (topic list below). Here's the Offit interview I mentioned. Topic List Omicron-specific boosters Data on severe disease prevention and booster rationale The challenges of case-control data for kids' vaccination Evidence-based morality, ethical and practical considerations around vaccine mandates Ethical and practical considerations around cooking pizza at home Does repeated COVID infection harm you Law vs. science and second order effects of legal decisions Tribal division and taking joy in the suffering of the out-group Stanford med school dean abortion letter controversy Policing language vs. real policy issues Outrage culture The abortion mess Jonathan Haidt's "Great Untruths" When Covidians turn on their own Taking offense vs. assuming good intent and how to organically promote changes in language When "science" museums behave like buttheads Loyalty on the left vs. the right Ayn Rand and young people Iodinated salt and MORE Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stanford medical school commencement ceremony, boosters for 5-11 year olds, Cat COVID, the end of pre-departure screening, VP's Oncology video drama, Twitter addiction and "second selfing," is continual feedback a good thing, San Francisco DA gets recalled, new immunotherapy for colorectal cancer, the importance of palliative care in oncology, and much more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guns, Vaccines, & Monkeys

Guns, Vaccines, & Monkeys

2022-06-0301:31:26

We dive into the riddle of gun violence in America, violence against healthcare professionals, public health officials and closing schools, will we need an annual COVID shot and how would we study that, the emergence of monkeypox, and the Depp/Heard trial. Video: https://youtu.be/9i8cD4j4sQE Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/vpzd Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here: sensiblemed.substack.com/ Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast: vinayakkprasad.com/plenarysession Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast: zdoggmd.com/z-blogg More on Vinay: vinayakkprasad.com/bio More on Zubin: lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We talk with Dr. Rita Redberg (professor of medicine & cardiologist at UCSF) about how very often less is more when it comes to medical care. We cover cancer screening (PSA, mammograms, blood testing, colonoscopy, CT screening for lung cancer), the utility or lack thereof of genetic testing, medical devices, statins, hypertension guidelines and treatment, and much more. And here's my prior interview with Dr. Redberg. Video: zdoggmd.com/less-is-more Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
CDC data collection, hepatitis in kids, Johnson & Johnson vaccine limited use, more on physician "influencers," the Roe V. Wade Supreme Court leaked draft decision, surprise medical billing, a nutty Twitter COVID story, seroprevalence of COVID in children, the White House Correspondents Dinner, annual COVID shots, Omicron's mortality, the "Pfizer documents" and more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elon Musk buys Twitter and what that may mean, group mind and the threat of nuclear holocaust, the conundrum of "physician influencers" on social media, Moderna's push to get EUA for it's vaccine in kids younger than 5, the Stanford nurses go on strike, challenges in academic medicine, should people in healthcare forge their OWN path, and much more! The Dr. Risa Hoshino substack piece: https://sarahburwick.substack.com/p/who-is-risa-hoshino. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We dive DEEP into all the things in this rare in-person video episode of The VPZD Show. And VP's lookin' pretty fly for a brown guy in that black jacket 🔥 We talk Elon Musk & Twitter, Bill Maher & medical humility, CNN's Dr. Leana Wen and her recent 360, China lockdowns, declines in teen mental health, kids cloth masking, booster science, Dr. Ashish Jha, the nature of audience capture, the value of authenticity, imposter syndrome, and much more. As promised, here's our first in-person interview from 2020; you can find all our episodes here. Full transcript and video: https://zdoggmd.com/vpzd-16/ Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode: Ivermectin, the latest Twitter absurdities, vacation without COVID, Will Smith, why medical conferences SUCK, NYC's toddler mask policy, why so many academics leave for pharma, that 4th dose, and more! Full transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/vpzd-15/ Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're back! In this episode we talk: dumb COVID policies, mask shaming on both sides, Kyrie Irving vaccine controversy, worshipping Lord Zero COVID (Hong Kong and elsewhere), press coverage biases, a FOURTH booster shot, ethical considerations around pharma not providing meds to Russia, dumber college COVID policies, the deal with early treatments, Ash Jha and John Ioannidis, and the James Webb telescope and STEM inspiration. Full transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/vpzd-14/ Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode we discuss: -Dr. Z's Twitter "bullying" of the California Academy of Sciences kids' museum over their restrictive booster/testing entrance policy (and why Z deleted Twitter at last). Read about it in MedPage Today. -New data on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of Pfizer's vaccine in the 5-11 year old population and what this means for policy. -Why public health may need controls placed on it in the future to avoid restrictive policies that lack evidence (see also: Vinay's Substack article). -Dr. Z debunks some antivaccine claims about a Swedish study on Pfizer's mRNA vaccine in liver cells. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode: The badges of tribal identity for COVID thesis/antithesis tribes, "deplatforming" scientists and the conditioning of young people, liberals and conservatives trading places, aiming for post-cynical discourse, the perils of comparing nations' COVID outcomes, and the FDA's crazy <5 y.o. kids' vaccine EUA mess. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jennifer Worth

I watched on YouTube but will probably relisten on my way to work. It just makes me so happy/relieved that masking is kind of backward thinking now. Like welcome to a normal year of illness for the kids.

Jan 12th
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Jennifer Worth

My second time listening and I missed the pot part. Slightly confused about why SpaceX having a non-high policy is not "grown-up". Maybe in a sensible article VP can explain why pot is so wonderful. And why I should love to smell it driving everywhere I go. Not being sassy, I just don't like pot smoke.

Dec 18th
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Jennifer Worth

If I were in a meeting with VP and people were "brainstorming" he would get such an onslaught of eye rolls, goofy faces and finger gestures from me I'd most certainly get kicked out. I loathe meetings. Such a complete waste of time with people who don't actually do the work. BLM bought fancy houses too just like Simone. Is this the new infraction to accuse people with?

Nov 18th
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Iryna Prokh

what you are saying about vaccines and boosters makes sense, but why all of this cannot be applied to healthcare workers? everybody has a right for body autonomy or health decision, except healthcare workers...

Jul 13th
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Jennifer Worth

"Loan forgiveness" 🤮 yes those of us who took 10 years to pay off our school debt should be annoyed.

May 7th
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Jennifer Worth

Driving through Flint, see a kid with a mask on his face outside. Then notice his pants are completely underneath his glutes and his entire backside of grey underwear is showing outside of his skinny jeans. Does anyone else see the irony, the negotiation with the universe in my brain? I'll wear a mask for another year if someone can please, pull up his pants and let this kid breath outside. Yes. Even one pair of pants. Even one set of lungs. Singular. Fun show😁

Apr 9th
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Jennifer Worth

1. Context is everything. I empathize with Dr. Prasad when he gets annoyed when people use sub-par studies to make a point. (after studying scripture for many years I cringe when people quote it out of its context) 2. A child in a classroom being singled out for taking off a mask when the rule has been uplifted is precisely the individual that deserves an advocate. I hope you advocate for that kid Dr.Z. 3. I'm not interested in getting a fourth booster but need my job. Is there any chance it will be mandated in the fall when the cases go up? 4. "Piles of poo" 😂😂Lmao

Mar 24th
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Jennifer Worth

This reminds me how obvious it is that human nature does not change.

Mar 2nd
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Jennifer Worth

I think that any establishment that mandates a vaccine card in February 2022 is way behind in the science. Omicron laughs in the face of the Wuhan vaccine. Laughed at the "kill all the deer" thing. I found the demonization of the vaccine pretty stupid but I also find those who still think it should be mandated to be equally stupid. It doesn't work on Omicron people 🤷‍♀️

Feb 21st
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Jennifer Worth

Boy you two pulled out all the stops on this one😂

Feb 5th
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Jennifer Worth

I'm 100% the rando in this talk and have been UTTERLY SURPRISED every time you both have responded to my emails. Its touched my heart and I've always been grateful for it.

Jan 22nd
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Jennifer Worth

the coddling of the American hand

Jan 13th
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Jennifer Worth

Packaging that's easy to open with mittens. 🤦‍♀️ Lord help us

Jan 13th
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Jennifer Worth

I don't disagree and I love the humor. But there is a disconnect between this podcast and the 'mood' of the day. Death, resuscitation, communicability, and suffering still reign here in MI. No one can say 'its over' to my ears because I can't hear it with any amount of belief. Rough week. 1-8-22

Jan 8th
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Greg Powell

These guys are absolutely brilliant. VP & ZD, I want you to know that I was very hesitant to get vaccinated (for reasons I won't go into here). The vaccine mandates turned me further *off* of vaccination, but your content turned me *on* to it. So the individual who claims that you're stoking the fire of anti-vaxxers doesn't have the whole story. We don't really have family doctors where I live so, for better or worse, yours is the best advice I'm getting these days.

Dec 13th
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Jennifer Worth

I like that Trump impression. I LoL'd

Dec 11th
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Jennifer Worth

I canceled my South Africa trip. KIDDING! Dude who travels there? Yes I'm an ignorant white woman but is a travel ban to South Africa going to ruin the Roibois business??

Dec 2nd
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Jennifer Worth

I think kids masking at Thanksgiving is stupid too. It occurred to me listening that kids at Thanksgiving naturally socially distance from adults. 🤔

Nov 26th
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Jennifer Worth

Here we go! weeee!!! The smart MD'zzzz!!!

Nov 24th
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