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A podcast by a doctor telling you all the dark and dirty secrets of my profession and how to understand what docs say and use it to become wiser and healthier! I separate myth from truth so you can be a better advocate for yourself.Remember the three keys to health: eat well, exercise, and stay away from doctors!
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Average audio length:
22 minutes
English
United States
82 episodes
since Dec. 17, 2021
episodic
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Age has become a diagnosis meant to be treated, not a time of your life to enjoy living. More medicines, more specialists, more tests, more fear. We have transformed age itself into a disease as we measure and "fix'" everything we can find, a windfall for the medical industrial com…
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We grapple with the question many people ask: how do we age well, live longer, live better? That is why many people go to the doctor, why they check their numbers and take medicines, why they buy that apple watch to monitor nearly everything! But as we discuss, none of that is the ticket to longe…
AI in such mediums as Google, Chat GPT, and Claude is becoming a device through which doctors and patients can make diagnoses, prescribe treatments, and distill symptoms down to diseases. If you are dizzy, what can be causing it, is it an emergency, how do you fix it? What if you are having chest…
The Trump Administration has elected to decrease the recommended vaccine schedule for children, and the political boxing gloves came out immediately. The mere notion of vaccine reduction, and the fact it occurred in Trump's administration, made the issue a left vs right slugfest. But hold on,…
We are two primary care physicians with 75 years of collective experience. We both are passionate about what we do, we get to know our patients well, we dig into issues and don't accept protocol robotic medicine, we typically offer a counternarrative to specialists, we are patient-centric and …
Alan and Andy both lived through COVID not on the sidelines but in the center of it all. Both took care of patients directly, Alan in a hospital for weeks at a time in the epicenter of the pandemic, Andy in multiple long term care facilities. Andy also wrote a book about COVID communication and s…
The cardiology community is quite adamant about their newest guidelines, whether it's about pushing LDL cholesterol below 70 or driving systolic blood pressure under 120. The patient's age, wishes, symptoms, and even the full breadth of science behind these dogmatic declarations is irrel…
We are hearing more and more about amyloid, a protein that can be deposited in the organs of humans and cause great harm. Or is that too simplistic? We now have very expensive and poorly tested drugs that will reduce amyloid load in the heart and brain. Because the drugs are available, now amylo…
This week we discuss medical TV shows, such as House and the Pitt and Grey's Anatomy, as well as medical moments on non-medical shows. Studies suggest that the message of these shows--the doctor as hero, the benefit of aggressive intervention, the fact that there is always a hidden diagnosis …
At the ADA Research Convention several members trying to pass out information were forced out after the police were called. They were ADA leaders who wrote an editorial blasting the current Presidential administration for cuts in research funding. Everyone agreed with their stance, just not their…
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