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Straight Talking Doc Unhinged — 80 episodes

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AI and primary care: how to use it responsibly

2

Vaccine Nuance: Politics vs Science

3

Saving Primary Care

4

What to say about Anthony Fauci: Viewing the Past after the Congressional Hearing

5

Amyloid: The New Magic Bullet for Specialists and Drug Companies

6

The Hypertension Controversey

7

Medical TV Shows: Accurate or Dangerous?

8

A Fight at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)

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The Power of Medical Boards

10

Medical Inequities

11

What Doctors are Saying about the Cholesterol Guidelines

12

The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System

13

Big Pharma

14

Protocols, Medical Boards, and medical censorship

15

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

16

Dementia: Promises and Reality

17

The History of Medicine Part 12: Flexner and African Americans

18

2026 Cholesterol Guidelines: Putting number fixing over people and science

19

History of Healthcare Part 11: The Flexner Report

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The Medicalization of Depression

21

History of Healthcare Part 10: Welch vs Osler

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The Struggles of Primary Care

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

24

Dermatology and the Illusion of our Skin Cancer Epidemic

25

History of Healthcare Part 9: Eugenics and Medical Progressivism

26

The Dangers of TV Medical Providers

27

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

28

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

29

Corporate Takeovers in Healthcare

30

The History of Medicine Part 6: The African American Experience

31

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

32

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

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

34

The History of Medicine Part 2: The Medical Racial Script

35

The History of Medicine Part One: The American Colonial Period

36

The overuse of antibiotics

37

lifestyle medicine: the crux of what really matters

38

drug ads

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Pain and Pain Medicines

40

Early Screening for Cancer: The Perils and Promises

41

Overtreating our mental health

42

The Danger of our new Blood Pressure Guidelines

43

Too many drugs, Too many falls, Too many deaths

44

A Simple Fix for our Medical Mess

45

The Medical School We Need

46

Primary Care Part Three: The Benefits of Primary Care

47

Primary Care Part Two: A Eulogy for Primary Care

48

Primary Care Part One: Why it is so Important

49

Over testing in the Hospital

50

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

51

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

52

PSA Screening

53

The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare

54

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

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Apple Cider Vinegar: Why doctors stray away from nutrition

56

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

57

the cholesterol myth.

58

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

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

60

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

61

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

66

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