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A podcast by a doctor telling you all the dark and dirty secrets of my profession and how to understand what docs say and use it to become wiser and healthier! I separate myth from truth so you can be a better advocate for yourself.Remember the three keys to health: eat well, exercise, and stay away from doctors!
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- How Does your Address Impact your Health · 34 min.Your zip code has some impact on your health, but the details are not as simple as one might imagine. We know, for instance, that lifestyle health benefits are more difficult to…
- Health Care in Your Home: Safety, Medical Devices, and Gadgets · 35 min.A lot of people have started buying devices promising to find problems and lead to cure. These may include sugar monitors, blood pressure cuffs, and even monitors to find heart…
- Our Healthgevity: Why we don't only live shorter, but we live worse · 37 min.Alan and Andy discuss the HALE scale, a subset of longevity that measures the average length of years people live without being disabled. The longevity in our country averages 79…
- Measles and Health Scares · 31 min.We are hearing a lot about measles on the news. The escalating cases. The unprecedented deaths. The tragic repercussions of the anti-vaxxers and Kennedy in particular It has…
- The Medicalization of Aging · 35 min.Age has become a diagnosis meant to be treated, not a time of your life to enjoy living. More medicines, more specialists, more tests, more fear. We have transformed age itself…
- How to Age Well · 38 min.We grapple with the question many people ask: how do we age well, live longer, live better? That is why many people go to the doctor, why they check their numbers and take…
- AI and primary care: how to use it responsibly · 39 min.AI in such mediums as Google, Chat GPT, and Claude is becoming a device through which doctors and patients can make diagnoses, prescribe treatments, and distill symptoms down to…
- Vaccine Nuance: Politics vs Science · 45 min.The Trump Administration has elected to decrease the recommended vaccine schedule for children, and the political boxing gloves came out immediately. The mere notion of vaccine…
- Saving Primary Care · 42 min.We are two primary care physicians with 75 years of collective experience. We both are passionate about what we do, we get to know our patients well, we dig into issues and don't…
- What to say about Anthony Fauci: Viewing the Past after the Congressional Hearing · 47 min.Alan and Andy both lived through COVID not on the sidelines but in the center of it all. Both took care of patients directly, Alan in a hospital for weeks at a time in the…
- Amyloid: The New Magic Bullet for Specialists and Drug Companies · 30 min.We are hearing more and more about amyloid, a protein that can be deposited in the organs of humans and cause great harm. Or is that too simplistic? We now have very expensive…
- The Hypertension Controversey · 42 min.The cardiology community is quite adamant about their newest guidelines, whether it's about pushing LDL cholesterol below 70 or driving systolic blood pressure under 120. The…
- Medical TV Shows: Accurate or Dangerous? · 28 min.This week we discuss medical TV shows, such as House and the Pitt and Grey's Anatomy, as well as medical moments on non-medical shows. Studies suggest that the message of these…
- A Fight at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) · 29 min.At the ADA Research Convention several members trying to pass out information were forced out after the police were called. They were ADA leaders who wrote an editorial blasting…
- The Power of Medical Boards · 34 min.Both Andy and Alan have been reported to their respective medical boards, both have had to hire lawyers, both have had to fight for their right to speak and to practice medicine…
- Medical Inequities · 26 min.Alan and Andy work in different medical environments. Alan works in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the county, one with many who are uninsured, undocumented, who have to…
- What Doctors are Saying about the Cholesterol Guidelines · 30 min.We reviewed what several physician podcasts have to say about the new cholesterol guidelines. We spoke about the guidelines in our March podcast, and also discussed in a later…
- The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System · 23 min.The Emergency Room can be life saving, but also can be a place to be feared. We discuss several cases in which protocols and robotic thinking put patients in precarious…
- Big Pharma · 32 min.We talk a lot about Big Pharma throughout this podcast but today we discuss its many tentacles. Soon after making the podcast, Alan watched a hockey game and there was a drug ad…
- Protocols, Medical Boards, and medical censorship · 25 min.This week Andy was reported to the Maryland Board of Medicine by a local cardiology group because some studies he included in his practice newsletter offended them. These were…
