The House of Pod

Kaveh and Dr. Sophie Balzora chat with Stat News reporter Nicholas St. Fleur about shining a light on the vast health disparities facing our country and filming your own colonoscopy for Good Morning America. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by producer Nadeem and friend Wei to share some embarrassing stories and chat with Hall of Fame NBA legend Rick Barry about the growing rate of injuries in the NBA and what’s changed over in the league over time.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No, he’s not a guest, but Kaveh has podcast host Parker James and ER physician Graham Waker on to discuss some of the controversies regarding Joe Rogan’s medical stances and guests, such as Robert Malone.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by co-host Dr. Sophie Balzora to reminisce about medical school and chat with two amazing medical students about training in a pandemic and what advice they have for people applying to medical school.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rapper and coffee aficionado Propaganda joins Kaveh to interview Harvard professor Dr. Sanjiv Chopra and Hepatologist Dr. Elliot Tapper about the health benefits of coffee. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You never want to be considered the "interesting" patient by your doctors, but that’s precisely what Dr. Seth Trueger became when he was diagnosed with Paraneoplastic Syndrome and Seminoma. Kaveh sits down with Dr. Trueger, an ER physician, to discuss his diagnosis, family, and doing the best you can with bad news.Read more here: http://ja.ma/sethSend your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by journalist Lindsey Ellefson, host of “It Could Happen Here” Garrison Davis, and toxicologist Ryan Marino to discuss cases of police reportedly overdosing on Fentanyl by touching it and whether that is a plausible from a medical perspectiveSend your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yup. Kaveh got the COVID and recorded this special episode from quarantine.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Drs. Sophie Balzora, Tyler Black, and Stephen Sample for drinks and to reflect on the year, discussing what surprised them and what they learned. But mostly to drink.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh speaks to comedian Billy Wayne Davis, Psychiatrist Tyler Black, and podcaster Stephanie Jantzen about the mental and physical effects of a toxic workplace and what can be done about it (other than just quitting, which sometimes works too).Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest co-host Dr. TR Levin to chat about the latest in colon cancer screening and to interview Dr. Fola May about the importance of representation, screening inequities, and what she’s doing to change things.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest co-host Dr. Wei Liu chat about Kaveh’s electric car issues and hang out with writer Rax King to discuss her new book Tacky and learn how patients can inadvertently be made to feel shame by the medical community.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest co-host Kristin Flanary (aka Lady Glaucomflecken) to talk about growing up and doing adult stuff like finance. Financial advisor Tyler Olsen and ER doctor Viveta Lobo join.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest co-host Dr. Sophie Balzora to chat with surgery resident Dr. Imani McElroy and trauma surgeon Dr. Qaali Hussein about gender equity and the added challenges that face minorities in medical training.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest cohost, nurse Ashley, sit with podcaster, actor, and all around amazing person, Alie Ward, to discuss her podcast Ologies. Listen to hear why she’s drawn to professional -ologists and what she’s learned from talking to some of the smartest people in fields ranging from drunk butterflies to slug sex.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this Halloween special, Kaveh is joined by doctors Cody, Stephen Sample, and Tyler Black to chat about their favorite horror films and how doctors would fare in the zombie apocalypse.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and Sharky are joined by the host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous, Travis View, and the creative/analytical mind behind the Steak-Umms account, Nathan Allebach, to discuss QAnon, far right conspiracy theories, and other fun dystopian things.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest cohost Dr. Sophie Balzora to chat with the inspiring and inimitable Dr. Kimberly Manning about course correcting, being a good mentor, and black girl magic.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest cohost Sophie Rae Lichterman to chat with psychiatrist Tyler Black and psychologist Tiffany Taft about anxiety and why the Warriors are the greatest basketball team in California.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest co-hosts Ryan Marino and Seth Trueger, and they chat about medical movies and interview Nathan Allebach, the creative mind behind the viral Steak-umm Twitter account. Hear how a frozen meat company became one of the guiding voices of reason and scientific literacy in the pandemic.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by toxicologist Ryan Marino and pediatric neurologist Dan Freedman to discuss his recent blog post regarding the use and misuse of VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) and the possible dangers of pre-print publications.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest co-host Ashley Bartholomew and Nurse Kelsey to discuss vaccination rates in nurses, the shifting public perception of nurses, and Kaveh’s blatant pandering to the nursing crowd.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest co-host Mark Lewis speak to the author of “How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t A-holes” about an evidenced based approach to raising kids who aren’t, you guessed it, a-holes.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by radiologist and bandmate Wei Liu to chat about how annoying Kaveh was in residency and interview ER doc and public health expert Jeremy Faust to get the latest on Delta.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest co-host, and toxicologist, Ryan Marino speak with author and activist David Poses about his new book, The Weight of Air, and his experience with heroin addiction and journey through sobriety.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest co-host Chase Anderson MD chat with psychiatrist Jessi Gold and nurse Ashley Bartholomew about the challenge of maintaining empathy in trying times and being able to voice frustration about the unvaccinated as a health care provider.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh sits backwards in a chair to “rap” with the youth and learn more about what life in medical school and residency is like these days. Joined by special guest co-host Marc Gasway.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk about wedding planning and speak with Vin Gupta, ICU doctor and MSNBC health policy analyst, about communicating science and medicine to the American public.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk to Kristin Flanary about the patient we don’t consider enough: the caregiver. Stay tuned after the interview for Dr. Chase Anderson’s powerful Newsweek essay “As a Black, Gay Physician, I've Survived In America By Embracing My Anger.”Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest host Ryan Marino talk with GI oncologist Mark Lewis about how his personal and family history of cancer shapes his approach to treating cancer patients.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk with Propaganda, rapper/poet/podcaster, about minority stress, relating geopolitical issues to hood politics, and decreasing vaccine hesitancy.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk with Timothy Caufield, professor of health law and science policy, and Tyler Black, psychiatrist/suicidologist about EMDR, debunking science myths, and the difference between the US and Canadian responses to COVID-19.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk with Dr. Nina Shapiro about how to spot medical myths and the positive aspects of patients doing their own research, as well as potential pitfalls.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh speak to Dr. Megan Ranney about her public health interest, studying gun violence, and her work getting front line workers PPE when no one else would.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh speak with Dr. Robert Pearl, the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the nation’s largest medical group, about the toxic culture of medicine and what he feels needs to change to save medicine.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie, Kaveh, and iHeartRadio executive producer Sophie Lichterman chat with Dr. Zachary Rubin, allergist and immunologist, about (you guessed it) allergies.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie, Kaveh. and guest co-host Garrison Davis talk to Child Psychiatry Fellow Dr. Chase Anderson about new and old stresses facing LGBTQ youth.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk to Dr. Sarah Diekman, doctor and aspiring lawyer, and Dr. Arghavan Salles, surgeon and speaker, on the issues of gender equity in medicine, sexual harassment, and whether lawyers or doctors are worse.Correction: Dr. Diekman has completed her JD and is on her way to becoming, but is not yet, a lawyer.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh speak to Dr. Glaucomflecken and Dr. Ryan Marino about the J&J vaccine pause, patients reviewing their records in real time, and whether you should care about the “provider” debate.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest host Dr. Stephen Sample chat with a former political analyst for the CIA, Brent Gionnatta, about the lessons learned from studying ISIS and how it applies to far right conspiracy theories and extremism in this country.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and guest co-host Dr. Stephen Sample speak with virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen about why we will likely need to vaccinate our children to get out of this COVID mess.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk with comedian and author Keith Lowell Jensen about managing his colon, his ADHD, and the times he was arrested.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk about the new CDC guidelines and chat with the founding members of the Association of Black Gastroenterologists & Hepatologists (ABGH) about promoting health equity in black communities and whether or not doctors can be racist.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh interview gun violence researcher Dr. Amy Barnhorst with help from guest co-host Garrison Davis.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh read listener emails and talk to IBD expert, Dr. Uma Mahadevan, about the challenges of treating IBD and why Gastroenterologists are so rad.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk about the best ice cream in San Francisco and catch up with Mary Roach to discuss writing about science in a time of COVID, as well as answer listener questions.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Nicole Baldwin tries to explain TikTok to Lizzie and Kaveh and talks about the totally cool and totally normal response anti-vaxxers had to her TikTok video promoting the use of vaccines.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk to hepatologist Lauren Nephew about systemic racism and overcoming her own COVID vaccine hesitancy.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk to Northwestern medical student Tricia Pendergrast about medical school in a time of COVID and her recent JAMA publication regarding online harassment of doctors.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lizzie and Kaveh talk about getting the second dose of the vaccine and chat with Dr. Jen Gunter about the the history of vibrators and why they’re so wonderful.Send your questions and comments to [email protected], or leave a voicemail at 408-444-6623 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.