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Straight Talking Doc Unhinged — 69 episodes

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The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System

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Big Pharma

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Protocols, Medical Boards, and medical censorship

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

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Dementia: Promises and Reality

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The History of Medicine Part 12: Flexner and African Americans

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2026 Cholesterol Guidelines: Putting number fixing over people and science

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History of Healthcare Part 11: The Flexner Report

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The Medicalization of Depression

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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

13

Dermatology and the Illusion of our Skin Cancer Epidemic

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History of Healthcare Part 9: Eugenics and Medical Progressivism

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The Dangers of TV Medical Providers

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

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

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Corporate Takeovers in Healthcare

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The History of Medicine Part 6: The African American Experience

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

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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

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The History of Medicine Part 2: The Medical Racial Script

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The History of Medicine Part One: The American Colonial Period

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The overuse of antibiotics

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lifestyle medicine: the crux of what really matters

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drug ads

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Pain and Pain Medicines

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Early Screening for Cancer: The Perils and Promises

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Overtreating our mental health

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The Danger of our new Blood Pressure Guidelines

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Too many drugs, Too many falls, Too many deaths

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A Simple Fix for our Medical Mess

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The Medical School We Need

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Primary Care Part Three: The Benefits of Primary Care

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Primary Care Part Two: A Eulogy for Primary Care

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Primary Care Part One: Why it is so Important

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Over testing in the Hospital

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

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

41

PSA Screening

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The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare

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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

45

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

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the cholesterol myth.

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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

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

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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