The ZDoggMD Show

"Stories are how we make sense of the world." Novelist and Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr. Abraham Verghese reminds us that story matters, now more than ever.Transcript, links, full video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/abraham-verghese 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

Cases rising, news orgs banging the drums of doom, yet Americans seem to be throwing up their hands. Here's what's up with #pandemicfatigue, LIVE. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pandemic-fatigue-explained/ Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UCSF professor & Chief of Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery returns to talk about van Halen, thyroid nodules, head & neck cancer screening, COVID, and more. Links to other episodes with Dr. Patrick Ha, transcript, video, CME conference links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/patrick-ha Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm a rationalist, skeptic, and a doctor, and meditation is a central part of my life. Here's why. Originally recorded LIVE to Facebook. Links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/why-meditate/ Subscribe and click the notification bell so you never miss our videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyRz1N_T-rnSkbaAH_TFAw?sub_confirmation=1 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our pandemic response has generated untold fear and untold harm to our most vulnerable communities. Here's a possible way out. Dr. Monica Gandhi is a UCSF professor of Medicine in the division of HIV, infectious diseases, and global medicine. Her current research involves masks and their effects on COVID disease severity. In this interview we talk about the effects masks and mask mandates may have (distinguishing correlation from causation), masks and herd immunity, how our current climate of fear has punished poor people, the "strata of fear" that your social group resides in, and much more. Transcript and links (including our prior interview): zdoggmd.com/monica-gandhi-2 Subscribe and click the notification bell so you never miss our videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyRz1N_T-rnSkbaAH_TFAw?sub_confirmation=1 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The President's disease course can teach us a LOT about risk, treatment, and more. Streamed live 10/4/20. Video, links to related shows, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/trump-covid Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COVID-19 doesn't spread like flu; it "clusters." Could this be a key to stopping it? Video, links to the Atlantic article, transcript, and more: zdoggmd.com/superspreaders Love our show and wanna support us just for a single donation? paypal.me/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why a data-driven, holistic, and nuanced approach to our COVID-19 response is long overdue. Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a practicing hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He studies cancer drugs, health policy, and clinical trials and better decision making and hosts the Plenary Session podcast. In this encore podcast we talk about the first presidential debate and the foibles thereof, the goals of healthcare reform and single payer upside vs. downside, why soundbite news and social media culture has failed us, why data and being able to change our minds matters, the dangers of ideological purity and not thinking for ourselves, mask mandates, weighing the life years saved in different covid response scenarios, why it’s imperative that we figure out how to open schools ASAP, social equity and our COVID response, safetyism and safety “creep,” the counterproductive role of the elite Zoomocracy during the pandemic, and much more. Video, transcript, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-3/ Support the show without supporting social media conglomerates: paypal.me/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is social media tearing society apart? Here's a doctor's live take on the new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off) Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if our response to COVID-19 was minimally effective but inflicted a TON of harm? Why do those who dare to ask this question run afoul of the academic establishment? Dr. Eran Bendavid is associate professor of medicine at Stanford and an infectious disease specialist and health outcomes/health policy researcher. He is co-author of the Santa Clara and Los Angeles COVID-19 antibody prevalence studies. We dive into: what is the actual infection fatality rate of COVID-19 (and on what factors does it depend), did lockdowns help or was the harm caused much worse than any benefit, should we open schools, what's going on in Israel, Sweden, Africa, India, and Vietnam, why are Stanford doctors writing a letter attacking Dr. Scott Atlas, why are politics and science so intermingled with coronavirus discussions, what is up with a vaccine, why does wealth = health in every study that looks at it, and much more.Links, transcript, video and more at https://zdoggmd.com/eran-bendavidYour support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Merch! https://supportertribe4lyfe.com/ (Facebook and YouTube supporters get 25% off)Website: https://ZDoggMD.comPodcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcastsFacebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmdNewsletter: http://eepurl.com/gD8_D1Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmdInstagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices