The ZDoggMD Show
Dr. Zubin Damania
Interviews and live rants on healthcare, depolarizing our divided society, and the non-dual nature of reality. Hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).
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Apr 25, 2021 • 53min
Pandemic Update LIVE 4/25/21
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!
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Apr 24, 2021 • 58min
Johnson & Johnson, Vaccine Passports, & More LIVE (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad)
We're talking LIVE about Johnson & Johnson, vaccine passports, and much more!
Transcript, video, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-9
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Apr 21, 2021 • 1h 18min
Our Medical Culture Kills Both Doctors And Patients
It’s time we stopped ignoring the deadly invisible elephant in the room: our dysfunctional and outdated physician culture.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 University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy.Dr. Pearl hosts the popular podcasts Fixing Healthcare and Coronavirus: The Truth. He publishes a newsletter with over 12,000 subscribers called Monthly Musings on American Healthcare and is a regular contributor to Forbes.
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Apr 20, 2021 • 24min
Vaccine Pause, COVID Booster Shots, And More
Are we TRYING to create antivaccine sentiment? Excerpted from a live show I did for my Supporter Tribe.
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Apr 16, 2021 • 53min
How To Unwind Our Pandemic Of Anxiety (w/Dr. Jud Brewer)
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 😂.Dr. Jud Brewer is an addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor at Brown University and executive medical director at Sharecare. His new book Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind is now a New York Times best seller. Full video and transcript here. Dr. Jud Brewer’s websiteFollow Dr. Jud Brewer on Facebook, Instagram, and TwitterUnwinding Anxiety (app)Eat Right Now (app)Craving To Quit! (app)
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Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 28min
Focused Protection For COVID (w/Dr. Jay Bhattacharya)
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!
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Apr 12, 2021 • 18min
COVID Vaccine Blood Clot Update
It looks like the association between AstraZeneca's vaccine and a rare clotting/bleeding syndrome is real. Here's what that means.
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Apr 8, 2021 • 51min
Losing A Child To Fentanyl Poisoning (w/Cindy Cruz-Sarantos, RN)
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.
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Apr 6, 2021 • 1h 42min
Why Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious (w/Federico Faggin)
The physicist responsible for the world's first commercial microprocessor knows something about artificial intelligence, and he thinks we have it all wrong 🤯
His new book, Silicon: https://amzn.to/3dFXhYy
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Apr 5, 2021 • 33min
COVID "Impending Doom" Update
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
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