The Paradocs Podcast with Eric Larson
by We Are Libertarians
The Paradocs is a fun and lively discussion with a couple of docs on the practice of medicine. Occasionally serious, other times lighthearted, and accidentally informative. A show for physicians to learn more about what is going on and a great place for them to direct their friends and family to better understand the challenges they face. Part of the We Are Libertarians Podcast Network.
Episodes
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Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Priorities for Making America Healthy Again With Dr. Eric Larson
Dr. Eric Larson of the Paradocs podcast joins me to discuss what we think RFK Jr. wants to do if confirmed as head of the Health and Human Services division, what he might get done, and some priorities he ought to do to make America healthy again. q Video - https://youtube.com/live/wt69j-XebVg…
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How to Save Over 50% on Health Care at Your Business
Are you a decision maker at your business? If you're a CEO, CFO, the head of HR, or perhaps the owner of a small, medium or large business then you owe it to yourself to check out this fairly simple solution to save over 50% on your health care spend. Health insurance is usually one of the…
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The China COVID Lockdown - What's Happening? with Jennifer Zeng
COVID has reshaped the world and China holds a unique position in the world's approach to combatting pandemics and in the fact that it was first described in the city of Wuhan. We may never know exactly where or how COVID originated in China but we can be certain that the unprecedented strategy…
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The Real History of Modern Medicine with Christy Chapin, PhD
History is a funny thing. Often, we think we know what happened either as we experience it personally or have trusted sources that give us an account. However, it depends on who is relaying the information, and the prior biases and perspectives. The goal of a good historian is to gather…
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It's Over - Will they accept it?
It's been a while since I've done an episode and it's mainly because I've had a COVID rant percolating for some time. So I just had to let it out now that the president (accidentally?) mentioned that the pandemic of COVID-19 is over. In this episode, I cover mandates, vaccines, public health…
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Opening the Medical Practice of Your Dreams with Chris Habig
In survey after survey, the number one satisfier for physicians - by a long way - is their relationship with patients. Anything you can do to improve or deepen that relationship makes the work better and decreases the incidence of burnout. Obviously, barriers put in the way that detract from...
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The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine with Dr. John Abramson
Occasionally, you come across an interview or subject that blows you away with incredible claims that are both out in the open - and yet invisible. Today's guest is an author and expert witness for some of the biggest pharmaceutical cases of this century, Dr. John Abramson. He reveals the rot…
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A Talent Agency for Physicians with Ethan Nkana
What is one common difference between the hiring process of most professionals with advanced degrees and those in sports and talent industries? The use of talent agents. People dedicated to finding their clients jobs, negotiating the terms, and essentially doing all of the analytical work to...
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Trading a Hammer for a History. Dr. Blake Miller on Functional Medicine
I confess that I hold a lot of biases when it comes to various surgical specialties. One such bias is that orthopedic surgeons - especially trauma - are not deep thinkers. My guest today completely turns that prejudice on its head as we discuss the role of nutrition and vitality in disease and...
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Roe v. Wade Goes Down. What's Next? with Elizabeth Nolan Brown
In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled on the Roe v. Wade case and concluded that Americans have a constitutional right to an abortion up to viability of the fetus. That has been the law of the land... until now (or at least very soon). Roe v. Wade OverturnedA few weeks ago, a draft majority…
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Surgeon Fired Over His Opinions - Mines Bitcoin Instead with Dr. Buck Parker
What would you do if you were fired by your employer over something you had said on social media? Would you be able to survive or would you have to scramble to find work? That scenario is exactly what was faced by today's guest, general surgeon Dr. Buck Parker. And his solution was a surprising...
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The Way to Build False Scientific Consensus with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya returns today to further our discussion on the dysfunction within the scientific community around COVID-19. Specifically, we discuss what exactly happened to Dr. Bhattacharya after he co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration where he and two other prominent academicians...
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Using Blockchain to Solve Health Care with Ray Dogum
The US health care system is fraught with all sorts of problems. Many of these have to do with consolidation in the market and scores of rent-seekers (those using legislation and regulation to maintain their market share. Those issues can probably be best resolved with fundamental changes within...
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Episode 164: Medical Education Credentialing Boards - Follow the Money with Charles Kroll and Elizabeth Tremblay
There's no shortage of an alphabet soup of government agencies but the same exists within the nebulous public-private sphere of medical education and credentialing. These non-profit organizations were created to ensure a baseline within medical education institutions across the entire country for...
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Episode 163: How We Reformed State Government to Save Billions with Christin Deacon
It's easy to become despondent about controlling spending or eliminating waste through reform on government expenditures. We've all seen the headlines about the $1 million hammer or toilet seat and governments losing track of money. Also, with all the people who have been elected on the platform…
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Episode 162: Expanding Choice for Physician Board Certification (NBPAS) with Dr. Paul Mathew
Expanding Choice for Physician Board Certification (NBPAS) with Dr. Paul Mathew A rite of passage for doctors is completing a residency in a specialty. Sometimes, they complete multiple specialty trainings but ultimately sit at the end of their years of training for board certification. At one...
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Episode 161: I Was at the Canadian Freedom Convoy and a Hockey Game Broke Out with Trucker Warren Speyers
The COVID pandemic has created a lot of interesting surprising and challenging political dynamics in countries all over the world. In the United States, we have a clear divide between those who declare themselves Democrats and Republicans in whether they support mandates and vaccine passports.…
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Episode 160: Risking the Loss of Your Medical License for Allegations of Misinformation with Dr. Meg Edison
If there is one thing that seems obvious throughout the pandemic, public discourse on just about everything seems to have broken our brains. We are incapable of having discussions without vitriol and there appears to be a real desire to not simply win arguments but destroy our ideological…
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Episode 159: Retiring in the Midst of a Pandemic with Dr. David Graham
Dr. Graham is the most frequent guest on the Paradocs Podcast and has appeared 5 previous times to discuss COVID (they can be found here, here, here, here, and here). Today, we talk a lot of COVID but also what it takes to retire amidst a pandemic. Do you need extra financial security during…
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Episode 158: The COVID Speech We Need
(The following is a speech I would give if I were allowed to replace the current head of the Presidential task force on COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci. We have had a huge loss of trust in our public health institutions and a change must be made. This is the speech someone needs to make as they…
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Episode 157: The Testing Industrial Complex Strikes Again with Dr. Basavana Goudra
Whether you are in medicine or not, you are affected by the board certification and board recertification process. The certification and recertification process is not only expensive but also stressful contributing to burnout with physicians. After completing a specialty residency training,...
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Episode 156: Can We Repair Trust in Public Health after COVID with Dr. Aaron Pomerantz
Throughout the pandemic that has raged over the past two years, the press and public have leaned heavily on experts on navigating our way through uncertainty. The most prominent member of this class of public health experts is Dr. Anthony Fauci who is essentially the face of the pandemic response...
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Episode 155: DonorSee is a New Innovative Way to Run a Charity with Gret Glyer
DonorSee is a New Innovative Way to Run a Charity with Gret Glyer When Gret Glyer decided to search for meaning in his life after a short stint in corporate America by flying on a whim to Malawi, he never expected that in less than ten years he would create and run a multi-million dollar global...
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Episode 154: Rethinking Vaccine Mandates and the Omicron Variant with Dr. Monica Gandhi
Vaccine mandates, mask mandates, boosters, and variants have been a constant source of debate and controversy with the pandemic. My guest today is Dr. Monica Gandhi, an expert in immunology and infectious disease who runs the HIV clinic at UCSF. She has been a fairly prominent voice in support of...
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Episode 153: Crowd Health is Go Fund Me for Health Care on Nitro with CEO Andy Schoonover
What happens when you take Go Fund Me and put it into an ecosystem of likeminded folks who want to build a community to care for each other's health care expenses? You get Crowd Health which draws upon some of the concepts of crowd funding for one time health care expenses within its community.…
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Episode 152: The COVID Drawdown
The COVID Drawdown Today we are going to discuss the COVID drawdown. Essentially, this is what must inevitably happen for us to return to lives of normalcy where we have typical interactions with others at family gatherings, sporting events, concerts, and business meetings. Unless we are prepared...
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Episode 150: Make Sure Your Health Insurance Broker is Working for You and not the Insurance Company with David Contorno.
When you run a business, one person you usually meet and hire is a health insurance broker. In theory, these brokers work with the employers to secure the best deals for health insurance to meet the company's health care objectives. However, in practice, the brokers serve as a sales force for the...
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Episode 149: Is Asymptomatic Spread of SARS-CoV-2 a Thing? with Daniel Halperin, PhD
Not only has the COVID pandemic politicized our country - it has led to a lot of misinformation and a shutdown of communication. For instance, is there really asymptomatic spread of COVID? Or just pre-symptomatic and symptomatic spread? That might seem like splitting hairs but it can have a...
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Episode 148: Urgent Care as Primary Care with Dr. Juliet Breeze of Next Level Medical
There are a lot of urgent care clinics all over the country. But few of them, to my knowledge, also operate as regular primary care clinics. But that is exactly what is happening today in the Houston, Texas area with the emergence of Next Level Medical. If you think about it, it makes perfect…
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Episode 147: Has the Pandemic Led to Infants Losing IQ? - with Sean Deoni, PhD
The COVID pandemic has brought on all sorts of changes to the way we live our lives. From wearing masks, working from home, stay at home orders, and restrictions on social interactions, the virus has caused untold disruption to the way our society functions. Although the changes COVID has brought...
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Episode 146: Explaining COVID in 11 Minutes with Dr. Eric Larson
Imagine yourself in California at a clearing in a large forest. And it’s on fire. There are three groups of people standing before you. A large group is screaming and running around pointing at the fire. They’re yelling that we need to do something, anything we can to stop the fire. Meanwhile,...
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Episode 145: Surgery without Insurance with Dr. Keith Smith
A lot has happened since we last met with Dr. Keith Smith from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma back in 2018. Back then, we talked about how he brought the radical notion of full price transparency to the surgery space in 2009 all without taking any government payers. We also spoke about how the...
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Episode 144: Direct Contracting Has Fixed US Health Care with Ron Barshop
When I began this podcast in the Spring of 2018, there were a lot of things I felt needed to be said about the US Health Care system. Foremost among them was the problems with the third party payment system (using both commercial and government insurance to make most of the payments for…
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Episode 143: We Were So, So, So, So Right about COVID
In April, 2020, serendipitously, my high school classmate reached out to me after one of my podcast episodes where I was talking about mask usage. I was incorrect in one of my assumptions with the use of masks and the spread of particles which he pointed out. I then read his blog post about COVID...
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Episode 142: What It's Like to Become a Doctor with Dr. Matt Moeller
A big struggle for doctors is when they watch what goes on in the state and national legislatures and realize that there is very little knowledge of what they do, how they practice, and what they did to get where they are. There are no better examples of this failure to understand the nature of...
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Episode 141: How Decentralized Finance in Cryptocurrency Can Help Your Medical Practice with John Bush
Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by a pseudonymous programmer (or group of programmers) called Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a currency issued in a decentralized fashion using a complex mathematical equation on a block chain. Bitcoin then launched in 2009 and was adopted by very few people but it held out…
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Episode 140: The Basics of Bitcoin with John Bush of Live Free Academy
Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by a pseudonymous programmer (or group of programmers) called Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a currency issued in a decentralized fashion using a complex mathematical equation on a block chain. Bitcoin then launched in 2009 and was adopted by very few people but it held out…
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Episode 139: Mandatory COVID Vaccinations
Today we're going to wade into the uncomfortable land of mandatory vaccinations for COVID. You're already seeing these spring up in hospital systems, federal work forces, and universities.There's a lot to understand with these and I only offer my own perspective while hopefully acknowledging...
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Episode 138: Weight Loss that Works in Primary Care with Dr. Celia Egan
Ask any primary care physician and they will tell you the toughest thing about helping their patients change lifestyle is that they don't have enough time or contact with the patient. Especially when it comes to weight loss control, primary care docs are stretched so thin on time that they…
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Episode 137: Muffins and Experts
Being an expert has a lot to do with muffins. Or rather, when I was eating a fresh muffin the other day for breakfast it certainly got me thinking about experts. You see, I eat my muffins differently than the rest of my family. They break off the top of the muffin and butter the top and then the...
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Episode 136: Doctors are Selling Out and Why You Should Be Worried
Essentially, there are two main ways to classify physicians - independent or employed. Today's health care in the US is becoming increasingly consolidated as health systems and corporate entities (venture capital groups, etc.) are purchasing physician practices. With the advent of the pandemic of...
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Episode 135: Apple Failed at Health Care, Doctors Didn't with Dr. Doug Farrago
There has been no shortage of people or schemes to fix the US health care industry. US medicine consistently fails to deliver quality care at affordable prices and manages to irritate both doctors and patients alike. Politicians and think tanks come up with grandiose plans every day to treat what...
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134: Science is Broken, It's Time We Fix It with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
There has been no shortage of casualties in the last year and half with the COVID pandemic. Schools have been closed, businesses shuttered, and families torn apart with different levels of concern for the virus. But one surprising victim has been science itself. The practice of scientific…
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Episode 133: Building an Electronic Health Record That Won't Make You Pull Your Hair Out with Dr. Richard Sztramko
If you want to get a doctor's blood pressure up or make her sweat, just tell her that you have a great electronic health record (EHR) to use. EHRs are the bane of a physician's life because they don't work well with your work flow, create extra work and inefficiencies, and cost a ton of money....
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Episode 132: Don't Sweat the COVID Variants with Dr. Monica Gandhi
"Beware the variants!" scream the headlines all over the news. Now that the vaccine is available for SARS-CoV-2, we are pounded with endless daily fear-filled stories about how the variants of COVID are coming and will continue to put people in the hospitals and funeral homes. Are the variants…
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Episode 131: Colorado Threatens to Take Away Your License if You Don't Play Ball with Dr. Belen Amat
This year, the Colorado legislature introduced a bill to radically change the way health care would be delivered in the state. HB 21-2132 was introduced this year with the hope of creating a public option health insurance for everyone in Colorado. Of course, their expectation is that they will...
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Episode 130: The Failure of Fauci on Coronavirus with Peter Suderman
In many ways, Dr. Fauci's failure to properly handle the pandemic response with COVID was inevitable. Men like him - according to my guest Peter Suderman of Reason.com - believe in the general infallibility of the bureaucratic process. They think that by following a mechanical paperwork process...
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Episode 129: We are All Imperfect Dads with Dr. Jeremy Toffle
Perfection. We all strive for it. Some more than others, but we all look to be better versions of who we are. In medicine, we tend to be high achievers so we want to 'conquer' parenthood. Being perfect isn't any more possible in parenting than it is in medicine. Human relationships are messy and...
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Episode 128: If You've Had COVID, Don't Get Vaccinated with Dr. Hooman Noorchashm
The most important question we have to ask ourselves is who should get the vaccine? The question comes down to who should get the vaccine, or rather, who shouldn't get vaccinated? This is where Dr. Noorchashm argues that anyone who has had COVID-19 and cleared the disease should not get…
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Episode 127: American Independence Day from COVID
We're talking about COVID and our American Independence Day from SARS-CoV-2 on June 1, 2021. The first thing I need you to do is look down and if you're wearing a red shirt, take it off. Not just one sleeve, take it all the way off. Likewise, if you're wearing a blue shirt, I need you to do the...
About this show
The Paradocs is a fun and lively discussion with a couple of docs on the practice of medicine. Occasionally serious, other times lighthearted, and accidentally informative. A show for physicians to learn more about what is going on and a great place for them to direct their friends and family to better understand the challenges they face.
Part of the We Are Libertarians Podcast Network.
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