Episodes
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Redefining Death
The Pairodocs has become a bit obsessed with MAiD lately. But in our defence, it has slid so far down the slippery slope that the insanity is laid more and more bare, for all (hopefully) to see. Cast your mind back 6 years, when COVID was not a cold, but a terrifying disease coming for us all.…
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Making death the easy choice
The Pairodocs have been on a bit about euthanasia recently, but please indulge us. It’s a deep subject - literally life-and-death. Since my first piece on euthanasia (“MAiD”), and then again since Julie’s more recent piece about extending it to the mentally ill, several interesting issues have...
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Deadly Compassion
This is the podcast version of Julie’s recent Substack on the issue of euthanasia, or “MAiD”, and its pending extension to patients with mental diseases. Get full access to Pairodocs’ Collection of Heresy at pairodocs.substack.com/subscribe
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Assisted Suicide, Suffering, and Slippery Slopes
A number of readers have asked for a podcast version of our Substacks, and I felt it was worth re-issuing this 2022 article as a podcast. It meshes, with some significant overlap, with Julie’s recent Substack on the same topic, and an upcoming (and likely our last, at least for a while) follow up...
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Political tipping points
I’m a slow thinker. It’s why I don’t do Twitter. It takes me a long time to come up with an opinion. I have to keep turning over an issue and looking at it from different angles. I read both sides of an argument. I often find some book on philosophy, poli sci or history that is relevant. And...
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Are we being killed with kindness?
I was honoured that Dr. JD Haltigan agreed to speak with us for the Free Speech in Medicine Podcast. Julie (the X/Twitter-literate half of the Pairodocs) loves his tweets so much that she feels that they “are sharing the same brain”. He is fearless in following the evidence on psychopathology in...
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Do Flu Shots "Save Lives"?
When I started family practice in ‘99 I held flu shot clinics for several years for patients in the rural community of Lansdowne, Ontario, where I worked. I was taught that “Flu Shots Save Lives”. The government advertised them to my patients. Demand was high. The pay was good. Over the years I...
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What's the D-eal on D
I was very honoured to speak with Dr. Kanji Nakatsu, a PhD in pharmacology and emeritus professor from Queen’s University, about the interesting and somewhat controversial subject of Vitamin D. Is D a wonder drug? Or a fad? Should we be supplementing? If so, how much? This discussion is a little...
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Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 4
Urban wastelands One of my friends described our hometown of Sydney’s downtown as looking more and more like a zombie apocalypse. Those who are addicted to the point of homelessness tend to migrate to larger centres. A rural community won’t put up with Joe Smith, Mike and Maggie’s son, pitching a...
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Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 3
The watering down of language When I was a medical resident in Kingston Ontario in the late 90’s, we would sometimes receive patients from the Rideau Regional Centre. This was a residential facility or “Institution” between Kingston and Ottawa that at its peak in the mid-50’s housed over 2500...
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Is there Harm in Harm Reduction? Part 2
Once again you have the option to listen or read. Either way, thanks for being here and I look forward to your comments and ideas. The Solution to drug addiction is unlikely more drugs Big Pharma was a Big Part of creating this crisis in the first place. At minimum it poured gasoline on a fire…
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Is there Harm in Harm Reduction
(I’m posting this as a podcast as some of you have mentioned you like having an audio version. But if you prefer the traditional written format, simply continue reading…) Problems in Cottonland I moved back home to Cape Breton in 2003. CB has long been a “depressed area”, Canada’s equivalent of...
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Canadian Federal Court Rules Invocation of The Emergencies Act was Unjustified
By now most people who are tuned in to these issues have heard lots about the recent Federal Court ruling that concluded that Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act), which granted the government essentially unlimited powers to forcibly end the trucker rally in...
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Dr. Ken Zucker
I first heard of Dr. Ken Zucker back in 2015 when the story about his firing as the head of the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s) gender dysphoria clinic first broke. The story struck me as strange. At that time he had 40 years of experience in the clinic. And as far as I could tell...
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Dr. Eric Payne
Dr. Eric Payne is a paediatric neurologist. He has a degree in Public Health from Harvard, and worked at the Mayo Clinic for a number of years before returning to Canada to take a job in Alberta in 2020. A healthy society sacrifices for and protects its children. I know of no grandparent who…
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James Manson
(note that in this podcast I read this intro in the audio version, so if you plan to listen, you can save the time and eyestrain) The idea of “god-given freedoms” is at the basis of classical liberalism. These are often referred to as “negative rights”. I touched on this issue briefly in a…
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Lisa Bildy
Lisa Bildy is an important person in my life. Were it not for her and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (please consider donating!), I’m not all that sure I’d still be practicing medicine. The first time I ran into the guardrails of the increasingly narrow road of allowable free…
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Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Did you know that Anthony Fauci’s wife is the chief bio-ethicist at the National Institute of Health in the USA? Does this strike you as a little odd? Knowing that, is it somehow less surprising that vaccine mandates are “ethical” according to Fauci and his minions? Many of you who follow our...
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Dr. Gad Saad
FSIM is VERY honoured and blessed to have the well-known Dr. Gad Saad as our lead-off speaker for FSIM 2023 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia from the evening of October 27th to afternoon of Oct 29th. Dr. Saad is fearless. He is not bully-able. He says what he thinks, without any virtue-signalling filter.…
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Amy Hamm
Amy Hamm is a nurse, but has training in journalism, and is an excellent writer. She has written for Quillette, the Post-Millennial, and elsewhere. However, apparently clarity of thought and communication combined with a deep knowledge of subject matter is not an appreciated skill set in the...
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Dr. Aris Lavranos - Doctor&Lawyer
I remember a few years back when I first started hearing about “The Deep State”. It sounded very dark and conspiratorial. Of course, it was just the “fringe minority” who called it that, so any right-thinking person was supposed to dismiss it. But is it just a more negative name for “the...
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Dr. Julian Somers on drug policy
In the latest of our 2023 Free Speech in Medicine speaker interviews, I chat with Dr. Julian Somers, a clinical psychologist and researcher who trained with Dr. Bruce Alexander of Rat Park fame. (If you don’t know about Rat Park, you’ll want to take a minute to read about it). Julian’s life...
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Dr. Ben Turner on Bill 36 and government control of healthcare
Dr. Ben Turner has a true old-fashioned university degree from a traditional school where they teach how, not what, to think. He has a master’s in healthcare ethics. He is a surgeon. This CV makes him uniquely qualified to talk about British Columbia’s Bill 36, which has been passed and is now...
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Rupa Subramanya
Rupa Subramanya is our first guest in this year’s “Speakers Series” featuring our invited speakers who will be there in person Oct 27-29th in Baddeck, Nova Scotia for the 2nd annual Free Speech in Medicine conference. Rupa is a journalist for the Free Press, has been extensively published in…
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Roy Eappen - An Endocrinologist with Principles
Dr. Roy Eappen is an endocrinologist who works in Quebec, who has been doing work with DoNoHarmMedicine.org - a group founded by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb that is pushing back against wokeness in medicine. Roy has recently penned a VERY important editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal and...
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Matt Strauss moving on
I’ve interviewed Dr. Matt Strauss before. He is an ICU doctor, has journalism training, and is a very wise and widely read man. You may recall that he has been the MOH (Medical Officer of Health) for Haldimand-Norfolk in Ontario through a good chunk of the pandemic. Matt’s “alt-right” views…
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Dr. Richard Schabas - An Autopsy of COVID Policy
You may already know the name of Dr. Richard Schabas from hearing him on the news or reading him in the newspaper from his many years as a prominent public health official, including 10 years as Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario. But you won’t have heard him for the last 3 years, as he…
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Francis Christian
This is the latest in a series of podcasts with our speakers who will be presenting at our inaugural Free Speech in Medicine conference Oct 28-30, 2022 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Information is online at freespeechinmedicine.com. Many of you listening to this will already know the name Francis...
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Dr. Martha Fulford - a voice of reason
This is another of our speaker preview podcasts for our upcoming FreeSpeechInMedicine.com conference in Baddeck, Nova Scotia Oct 28-30th. When the pandemic first hit, most docs I knew were very nervous. I was very nervous. We were watching catastrophic news stories out of northern Italy, then…
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Turning the Tables on Trish
This is another of the preview interviews of our FSIM conference speakers. I knew Trish Wood’s name long ago. She was a CBC investigative journalist, and I grew up in a house with CBC on most of the day. This was back in the days when Peter Gzowski told stories that united us. When investigative...
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Shawn Whatley - Doc, Author, Thinker
This—the latest Free Speech in Medicine conference speaker interview—is with Dr. Shawn Whatley. Shawn has the intellectual range to read and speak about subjects from medical administration to philosophy and political science, and the range of focus to go from the rapid fire job of ER doc to...
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Take 2 Aspirin and Call Me by my Pronouns
I feel very blessed to have had such an amazing group of people agree to come and speak at our Free Speech in Medicine conference. What a privilege to talk to them, thereby rubbing shoulders with some great thinkers, movers and shakers. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is a brave, well-spoken and brilliant...
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Free Speech in Medicine Conference Preview #1 - Bruce Pardy
Bruce Pardy is an accomplished man. He is a law professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the driving force behind rightsprobe.org. He has presented to parliamentary committees, done high profile events with the likes of Jordan Peterson, and written important and impactful…
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James Topp Marches
James Topp has been a member of the Canadian Armed forces for nearly 30 years. He has served his country honourably here in Canada and in combat overseas. Like many of us, he started to feel COVID policy creating an accelerating authoritarianism. When federal government employees and those in the...
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Dobbs versus Roe v. Wade
DoctorsNS, which ostensibly "speaks for” physicians in NS, recently sent an email missive on how upset we all were about the Dobbs decision in the US which repealed Roe v. Wade. But many physicians who spoke with me had a much more nuanced understanding of this subject, and were not on board with...
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An Unlikely Medical Officer of Health
Anyone who has met me knows I like to chat (and then some). Don’t be in a hurry to go anywhere if you get me started on something that interests me. I figured I’d might as well put my gift of gab to good use and add a podcast component to the Pairodocs. This was the first podcast I recorded,...
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Pox Talk
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