The ZDoggMD Show

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? 57:58 The importance of the book and calls to action: we can make real change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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 😍 A Nurses Week love song straight from the Dark Side. A parody of Elton John's Your Song, lyrics and performance by ZDoggMD (AKA Doc Vader) Links, video, lyrics, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/your-song Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters #nurses #nursesweek Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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