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Straight Talking Doc Unhinged — 74 episodes

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Title
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Medical TV Shows: Accurate or Dangerous?

2

A Fight at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)

3

The Power of Medical Boards

4

Medical Inequities

5

What Doctors are Saying about the Cholesterol Guidelines

6

The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System

7

Big Pharma

8

Protocols, Medical Boards, and medical censorship

9

The History of Medicine Part 13: Where are we Now?

10

Dementia: Promises and Reality

11

The History of Medicine Part 12: Flexner and African Americans

12

2026 Cholesterol Guidelines: Putting number fixing over people and science

13

History of Healthcare Part 11: The Flexner Report

14

The Medicalization of Depression

15

History of Healthcare Part 10: Welch vs Osler

16

The Struggles of Primary Care

17

The History of Medicine Part 8: The Cogs of AMA Reform 1900-1920

18

Dermatology and the Illusion of our Skin Cancer Epidemic

19

History of Healthcare Part 9: Eugenics and Medical Progressivism

20

The Dangers of TV Medical Providers

21

Some truths about nutrition, and it's likely not what your doctor tells you

22

The History of Medicine Part 7: The AMA's change in direction

23

Corporate Takeovers in Healthcare

24

The History of Medicine Part 6: The African American Experience

25

The History of Medicine Part 5: Alternative Medicine in the 1800's

26

History of American Healthcare Part 4: The Origins of the AMA

27

History of American Healthcare, Lecture 3: Medicine after the Revolution

28

The History of Medicine Part 2: The Medical Racial Script

29

The History of Medicine Part One: The American Colonial Period

30

The overuse of antibiotics

31

lifestyle medicine: the crux of what really matters

32

drug ads

33

Pain and Pain Medicines

34

Early Screening for Cancer: The Perils and Promises

35

Overtreating our mental health

36

The Danger of our new Blood Pressure Guidelines

37

Too many drugs, Too many falls, Too many deaths

38

A Simple Fix for our Medical Mess

39

The Medical School We Need

40

Primary Care Part Three: The Benefits of Primary Care

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Primary Care Part Two: A Eulogy for Primary Care

42

Primary Care Part One: Why it is so Important

43

Over testing in the Hospital

44

Weight loss drugs: What's the problem with a taking a shot?

45

The Dangers of Specialty Care: How misplaced incentives lead to high cost and poor outcomes

46

PSA Screening

47

The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare

48

How to Fix our Messed Up Health Care System: Lower cost = Better health outcomes.

49

Apple Cider Vinegar: Why doctors stray away from nutrition

50

How "Us vs Them" thinking is used to defend the medical system: David Frum and his Atlantic Article.

51

the cholesterol myth.

52

Episode 23: The human cost of COVID's Religious dogma, one patient at a time

53

Episode 22: the Gospel of Infectious Disease, Book One, COVID rituals

54

Episode Twenty-One: The Sciency Song and the Voice of the Medical Religion

55

Episode Twenty: The Gospel of Cancer Book Two, Prostate Cancer

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Episode Nineteen: The Gospel of Cardiology Book Three: Eliquis

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Episode 18, The Religion of Medicine

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Episode 17: Is your doctor a robot?

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Episode 16: The myth of cancer screening and PSA

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Episode 15: Debunking the Cholesterol Myth

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Episode Thirteen: The Flexnerian Biostate

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Episode 13: The legacy of racism spurred by the Flexner Report

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Episode 12: The seeds of our medical destruction, Flexner Part Two

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Episode 11: The seeds of our Medical Destruction, Flexner Part One

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Episode Ten: The harm of all those "lifesaving" Snake Oils

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Episode Nine: Which outcomes of medical interventions matter

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Episode Eight: It's all about Numbers

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Pimps and Drug Dealers

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Episode Six: The Bricks of Medical Deception

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Why patients believe the myths their doctors tell them

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Why doctors don't tell you the whole truth

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How medical statistics can trick you, the case of afib

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Afib and Medical Deception

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Introduction: Telling you the truth about healthcare