The ZDoggMD Show

Here's what we know about the effects of coronavirus on smell and taste. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-smell Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Z-Gear: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How come we have no clue why we're aware at all? Some live ruminations on why this question matters. Video: https://zdoggmd.locals.com/post/346925/the-mystery-of-consciousness-why-you-should-care Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Z-Gear: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legendary vaccine researcher returns to answer a metric ton of our questions. We discuss the safety data so far after 7 million vaccinations, the case of the OB doctor who died of a platelet-related illness, why the second dose of the mRNA vaccines is crucial, why patients who've had COVID should still be vaccinated, the effect of monoclonal antibodies on vaccine efficacy, the situation with anaphylaxis/pregnancy/autoimmune disease and more, whether new viral variants will "escape" the vaccine, are there tests to check for real immunity after infection or vaccination, whether you can mix and match the two vaccines, what new vaccines are coming down the pipeline, do vaccinations prevent asymptomatic spread, un-blinding and vaccinating placebo arms of the trials, healthcare worker vaccine hesitancy, and much much more. Video and transcript: zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-5 Support our show: zdoggmd.com/supporters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For healthcare workers with a family or debt, getting sick or injured can be a fate worse than death.Here’s how we can better insure our future income. We partnered with Matt Wiggins, founder of Pattern, to educate healthcare workers on the secrets of finding good disability insurance. Spoiler alert: if you think your employer or group insurance is enough, you need to watch this. Learn more or get a quote from Matt and the folks at Pattern here. Full video here. 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: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reasons behind the 2 dose recommendation for mRNA vaccines, and your questions, originally LIVE. Video: zdoggmd.com/2-doses Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters and 1-time donations at https://paypal.me/zdoggmd Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Z-Gear: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Current events are CRAZY, so let's science the crap outta stuff, LIVE. Moderna vs. Pfizer mRNA vaccines, vaccine refusals in healthcare people, the effect of social media algorithms on conspiracy thinking in politics and medicine, the Capitol insurrection, and more. Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Z-Gear: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fever may be good for us. Here's why. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/fever Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Z-Gear: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the LAST LIVE of 2020! Let's talk about the missing Flu, masking after vaxing, antivax healthcare peeps, and take YOUR questions! We're so grateful to our Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why a holistic public health approach driven by reducing TOTAL pandemic harm just makes sense. More about Dr. David Katz, links, video, and transcript here. Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome. Learn more. Website Podcast Facebook Instagram Twitter Z-Gear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's how we can think about the new mRNA coronavirus vaccines in people with specific health conditions. Transcript, video, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-vaccine-pregnancy Join The ZPac Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rely on scary headlines...or science the crap out of it? Yeah you know how WE do it 🤓 What mutations mean, how they come about, how they affect the spread and fatality of the coronavirus, what's going on in the UK that provoked so much panic, how mutations affect vaccine efficacy, and what we need to do about it NOW. Links, video, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-mutation-science Join The ZPac Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, wealthy donors, and hospital administrators cutting the line for coronavirus vaccine? Here's one doctor's take. Video: zdoggmd.com/cutting-vaccine-line Supporter Tribe info: zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Bell's Palsy, anaphylaxis, why this vaccine wasn't "rushed," reinfection, and MUCH more. Transcript, video, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-vaccine-12-16 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apparently the "Head of Pfizer Research" thinks so. Except he isn't. And it doesn't. Here's the science, and some tips to spot misinformation before it fools you. Links, video, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vaccine-sterilization Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Absolutism In Medicine Is A Posion (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad) by Dr. Zubin Damania Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FDA vaccine advisory committee member Dr. Paul Offit returns to answer our questions on the new COVID vaccines. This is a must-listen, folks. We talk about the new mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna and their safety and efficacy, how they work, their effect on human DNA, the risk of antibody dependent enhancement, whether Phase 3 trials are enough data to feel comfortable with these vaccines, whether we should immunize those who've previously been infected, the volunteer bias in these trials, how the vaccine might be better at creating immunity than just getting infected with coronavirus, why antibody levels are misleading when it comes to immunity, why treating a fever is BAD, why we shouldn't mandate these vaccines yet for healthcare workers, the use of human fetal tissue stem lines, why immunize at all, what we should do about children, and much more. Transcript, video, links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-4 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we change how we look at the world, the world changes how it looks at us. The secret is compassion, both for ourselves and others. Dr. James Doty is a Stanford neurosurgeon, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and best-selling author of Into The Magic Shop. He is the director and founder of the Center For Compassion And Altruism Research And Education (CCARE). This is an intense and oftentimes emotional interview that I profoundly enjoyed, and I think you will too. The second half gets ESPECIALLY wild. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/jim-doty Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public-private partnerships, genomic epidemiology, and a national EMR among other things made little Iceland a big deal in the science of the pandemic. Article link, transcript, video, and more: zdoggmd.com/iceland-covid-science Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two docs talk LIVE about the dangers of medical black & white thinking when it comes to COVID-19. Links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-4 We talked Danish mask study, Thanksgiving public health absolutism and harm reduction strategies, the latest ways to think about the new COVID vaccines, scientific censorship, political polarization in science, Dr. Scott Atlas, and much more. 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. He is author of these academic articles, and the books Ending Medical Reversal(2015), and Malignant(2020). He hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session, and runs a YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew. He tweets @VPrasadMDMPH. Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe & get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://instagram.com/zdoggmd Twitter: http://twitter.com/zdoggmd Merch: http://supportertribe4lyfe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, supplements, and breath training help you beat COVID-19 like a boss? Dr. Ronesh Sinha teaches us how to optimize our chances. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha-2 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 PayPal (single donation): https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Z-Gear: 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

Dr. Christiane Northrup went viral with some interesting claims about the mRNA COVID vaccines. Here's what's REALLY going on. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/northrup-vaccine-lies 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 PayPal (single donation): https://www.paypal.me/zdoggmd Z-Gear: 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

Here's how we can make sense of (and do something about) the rising cases and hospitalizations. Transcript, links, and full video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-winter 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

Here's how to interpret the latest news on Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. Links, transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-vaccine 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

Meatpacking plants, nursing homes, schools…here’s how we can get back to work while lowering coronavirus transmission risk. Dr. Bob Harrison, MD is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and an occupational and environmental medicine specialist. He’s a specialist in preventing coronavirus spread in the workplace environment. In this interview we talk about the tiers of protection that can help prevent workplace COVID exposure, the relevance of face masks, ventilation and testing, the importance of contact tracing, and much more. Transcript, video, links and more: zdoggmd.com/robert-harrison 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

"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-bendavid 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

When we empathize with a story, we can lose sight of the bigger picture. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-irrational 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

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford physician and economist and co-author of several seroprevalence studies on COVID-19. In this must-hear interview we talk about EVERYTHING. Including the true infection fatality rate, comparisons to influenza, drama around his Santa Clara antibody trial, reinfections, vaccine development, economic and social impacts, why we MUST reopen schools NOW, the horrors of censorship of scientists and opposing dialog, how Stanford is contributing to the problem of stifling dissenting opinions, Dr. Scott Atlas and his advisory role to the president, empathy vs. compassion with regards to COVID, and MUCH MORE. This is a conversation with a really smart and thoughtful scientist who has been too-often maligned and mischaracterized by the media. Video, transcript, and links at https://zdoggmd.com/jay-bhattacharya 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 masks acted to reduce severity of COVID-19 infection for the WEARER, fostering immunity like a vaccine and allowing a full societal reopening? UCSF medicine professor Dr. Monica Gandhi recently proposed just such a theory in the New England Journal of Medicine. Links to papers, transcript (coming soon), and more at https://zdoggmd.com/monica-gandhi 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

Zak Holdsworth creates technology—and community—that just might drive healthcare's next revolution: Direct Primary Care. Register for the Hint Summit (and automatically get $50 off using this link or the code "ZPAC50": https://go.hint.com/3jddPIn Transcript, video, links, and more on Direct Primary Care at: https://zdoggmd.com/hint 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

This outrage is yet another symbol of the utter brokenness of our healthcare system 😡 Time to stop playing these money games NOW. Link to the ProPublica article, video, full transcript, and more at zdoggmd.com/covid-money-games 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

Norman Wang...#MedBikini...do white docs kill black babies? Triggered yet? Applying a rationalist framework to emotionally charged "research" should be a priority for everyone, but too often we're failing. Dr. Vinay Prasad, UCSF hematology-oncology maven and host of the Plenary Session podcast, returns for a truly authentic discussion on the LACK of authenticity in healthcare. This is required listening for anyone pursuing a career in medicine. Dr. Prasad has written two books, Ending Medical Reversal and Malignant. Links to Dr. Prasad's books and video: zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-2 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

Cases up, deaths less so...why? And should you get a flu shot and WHEN? Video at zdoggmd.com/covid-update-9-7 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

Two docs go deep on the failures of our research infrastructure during the COVID-19 war. If you're a fan of our current system, be prepared to be triggered. We talk about convalescent plasma, the tyranny of institutional review boards (IRBs), the failures of peer review, hydroxychloroquine, and much more. Dr. Marty Makary is Editor-in-Chief of Medpage Today and is Professor of Surgery and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins. He's the author of best sellers Unaccountable and The Price We Pay. Links to his other interviews and much more at https://zdoggmd.com/makary-covid-research 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

You've seen images on the news of patients in the ICU on their bellies? Here's what's up with that. Transcript, video, and more at zdoggmd.com/proning 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

The internet's been lit up regarding recent COVID-19 death statistics from CDC. Here's what they actually show. Links, video, transcript, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/covid-death-stats 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

Remember when we did all those lockdowns? Did they work? There may be a better, more targeted response. Let's discuss it, LIVE. Video, transcript, and more at zdoggmd.com/lockdowns 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

How will we distinguish COVID-19 from flu and RSV in the winter? What's the future of rapid testing? Dr. David Persing is the CMO/CTO of Cepheid and we go DEEP in this interview. In this episode we discuss rapid PCR testing for COVID-19, influenza A and B, and RSV, as well as testing for yet-undiscovered future outbreaks like SARS-CoV3 and avian flu. We touch on rapid saliva antigen testing, why the turnaround times have been so long, what went wrong with the country's early testing for coronavirus, and much more. Transcript, video, links, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/ In this episode we discuss rapid PCR testing for COVID-19, influenza A and B, and RSV, as well as testing for yet-undiscovered future outbreaks likes SARS-CoV3 and avian flu. We touch on rapid saliva antigen testing, why the turnaround times have been so long, what went wrong with the country's early testing for coronavirus, and much more. #coronavirustesting #influenza #winteriscoming 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

Here's what I'd need to see as a doctor if I'm going to be comfortable with a COVID-19 vaccine. Video, transcript, and links at zdoggmd.com/covidvax 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

Healthcare workers are suffering in a culture of "presenteeism," working while sick and having their jobs threatened when they don't. Links, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/healthcare-sick 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 has a really high rate of asymptomatic infection. Here's what that may mean for our pandemic strategy. Originally LIVE on Facebook. Links, video, transcript, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/asymptomatic-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

What happens if we rush Phase 3 trials for a coronavirus vaccine? A world expert on vaccine development returns to weigh in. We discuss the timeline and status of current vaccine trials, what the government has done to accelerate the clinical trials, the dangers of rushing Phase 3 trails, different types of immunity, the role of interferon and monoclonal antibodies, the nature of herd immunity, the duration of coronavirus immunity, can people be reinfected, the politicization of science currently, mask efficacy, should we return to school, what we both got wrong early in the pandemic, and much more. Links, transcript and more at https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-3 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 F acebook: 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