It’s Over – Will They Let 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I Was at the Canadian Freedom Convoy and a Hockey Game Broke Out with Trucker Warren Speyers
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 …
Risking the Loss of Your Medical License for Allegations of Misinformation with Dr. Meg Edison
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 …
Retiring in the Midst of a Pandemic with Dr. David Graham
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 …
The COVID Speech We Need
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. …
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 …
Rethinking Vaccine Mandates and the Omicron Variant with Dr. Monica Gandhi
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. …
Crowd Health is Go Fund Me for Health Care on Nitro with CEO Andy Schoonover
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 …
Has the Pandemic Led to Infants Losing IQ? – with Sean Deoni, PhD
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. …
Explaining COVID in 11 Minutes with Dr. Eric Larson
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 …
We Were So, So, So, So Right about COVID
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 …
Muffins and Experts
Doctors are Selling Out and Why You Should Be Worried Doctors are Selling Out and Why You Should Be Worried Essentially, there are two main ways to classify physicians – …
We’re in the Transitional Phase for COVID-19, Now What?
We’re in the Transitional Phase of COVID-19, Now What? In his excellent book, From Killer to Common Cold: Herd Protection and the Transitional Phase of COVID-19, Dr. David Graham lays out …
Episode 110: Birthing Babies and Direct Primary Care with Dr. Nick Tomsen
Episode 110: Birthing Babies and Direct Primary Care with Dr. Nick Tomsen Direct primary care (DPC) is a style of practicing medicine we have discussed many times on the show. …
Episode 109: The COVID-19 Vaccine is Here. What Does it Mean? A Discussion with Dr. Tim Hindmarsh
Episode 109: The COVID-19 Vaccine is Here. What Does it Mean? A Discussion with Dr. Tim Hindmarsh Well, it finally happened, the COVID-19 vaccines have started to arrive and get …
Episode 108: Dealing with Grief for You & Your Patients with Dr. Marcy Larson
Episode 108: Dealing with Grief for You & Your Patients with Dr. Marcy Larson What does it mean to feel grief? Is it sadness? Anger? Resignation? Unfortunately, life will almost …
Episode 107: Understanding Cancer with Dr. Jason Fung
Episode 107: Understanding Cancer with Dr. Jason Fung Cancer. It is a word that evokes feelings of fear, pain, hopelessness, and loss. It also brings to mind images of chemotherapy, …
Episode 106: I’m a Doc, Why Do I Need a Medical Liability Mitigation Company with Dr. Jeff Segal
Episode 106: I’m a Doc, Why Do I Need a Medical Liability Mitigation Company with Dr. Jeff Segal It’s been a while since we have discussed medical liability on the …
Episode 105: What is the One Question You Wish You Knew Before Starting a DPC Practice?
Episode 105: What is the One Question You Wish You Knew Before Starting a DPC Practice? Direct primary care (DPC) is a movement that is growing quickly in the United …
Episode 104: I’m a Doctor and Spent a Year Without Health Insurance
Episode 104: I’m a Doctor and Spent a Year Without Health Insurance The Story In late Summer of 2019 my wife and I had to make a difficult choice – …
Episode 103: Do Nurse Practitioners Put Patients at Risk? Dr. Rebekah Bernard
Episode 103: Do Nurse Practitioners Put Patients at Risk? Dr. Rebekah Bernard Since 2010, the number of nurse practitioners in the United States has grown from 109,000 to 290,000. This …
Episode 102: Losing Weight & Fixing Diabetes with Fasting with Dr. Jason Fung
Episode 102: Losing Weight & Fixing Diabetes with Fasting – Dr. Jason Fung The last few years have seen a resurgence in the use of fasting. Fasting is an ancient …
Episode 101: From Killer to Common Cold – Discussing COVID-19
Episode 101: From Killer to Common Cold – Discussing COVID-19 Dr. David Graham returns again this week to discuss his newly published book, From Killer to Common Cold. The book …
Episode 100! What Have We Learned So Far About Medicine?
Episode 100! What Have We Learned So Far About Medicine? Episode 100 is a momentous achievement for a podcast about medicine where I had only about 3 show ideas in …
Episode 099: Myocarditis in Asymptomatic COVID-19 Isn’t Real with Dr. Rohin Francis
Episode 099: Myocarditis in Asymptomatic COVID-19 Isn’t Real with Dr. Rohin Francis Okay, so today’s title to the show is a little provocative. But it’s meant to convey the most …
Episode 098: How the 340B Drug Program to Help the Poor Get Medicine Doesn’t Work
Episode 098: How the 340B Drug Program to Help the Poor Get Medicine Doesn’t Work Today’s discussion begins way back in the early 1990s when Congress was trying to figure …
Episode 097: Finding Passive Income in Real Estate with Dr. Jeff Anzalone
Episode 097: Finding Passive Income in Real Estate with Dr. Jeff Anzalone We’re breaking from our discussion of COVID-19 and discussing life after pandemic with finding means of passive income. …
Episode 096: From Pandemic to Endemic – How COVID-19 Will Get There.
Episode 096: From Pandemic to Endemic – How COVID-19 Will Get There. Following our discussion last week where we discussed the probable lower herd immunity rate threshold for COVID-19, today …
Episode 095: Is Herd Immunity Here for COVID?
Episode 095: Is Herd Immunity Here for COVID? One of the most commonly used expressions regarding the current COVID pandemic is herd immunity. Policy makers, epidemiologists, and lay people are …
Episode 094: The End of Safe Harbor for PBMs?
Episode 094: The End of Safe Harbor for PBMs? Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are one of the ‘middle men’ in health care that have recently come under fire for the …
Episode 093: Cutting Generic Drug Prices for Everyone with Zach Zeller of Scriptco
Episode 093: Cutting Generic Drug Prices for Everyone with Zach Zeller of Scriptco One driver of health care inflation in the United States are pharmaceuticals. Although we usually associate rising …
Episode 092: The MOC Shakedown with Dr. Torie Sepah
Episode 092: The MOC Shakedown with Dr. Torie Sepah Maintenance of Certification (or MOC) is a requirement by all the specialty boards in the United States that is above and …
Episode 091: COVID, Immunity, and Back to School
Episode 091: COVID, Immunity, and Back to School Now that we’re approaching the half way point of summer it’s time to start thinking about what we’re going to do with …
Episode 090: The History Behind Hydroxychloroquine with Dr. Adam Rodman
Episode 090: The History Behind Hydroxychloroquine with Dr. Adam Rodman Hydroxychloroquine is an old medicine and treatment for conditions causing cyclical fevers like malaria. But hydroxychloroquine has been used in …
Episode 089: Primary Care by Text Message with Dr. Brad Younggren
Episode 089: Primary Care by Text Message with Dr. Brad Younggren What does it mean to have a virtual telehealth doctor’s visit? Can artificial intelligence (AI) and telehealth actually work …
Episode 088: Hand Surgery without Anesthesia with Dr. Randy Lovell
Episode 088: Hand Surgery without Anesthesia with Dr. Randy Lovell Finally an episode without discussing COVID-19 (well a tiny bit maybe). Today I’m joined by my friend and colleague Dr. …
Episode 087: The Deception on the Coronavirus from our Leaders
Episode 087: The Deception on Coronavirus from our Leaders We’re back at it again discussing the Coronavirus pandemic. The shutdowns/lockdowns continue in the United States and the tenor of the …
Episode 086: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Ends with Dr. David Graham
Episode 086: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Ends with Dr. David Graham Now that we are over a month into the variable stay at home orders in the United States for …
Episode 083: Making it Through Coronavirus without Health Insurance
Episode 083: Surviving Coronavirus Without Health Insurance Once again, the coronavirus outbreak is dominating the news. Government officials at the federal, state, and local levels have closed down most businesses …
Episode 085: The Nonsensical Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Episode 085: The Nonsensical Response to the CoronaVirus Outbreak The response from state governments in the United States have varied in how they are responding to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). …
Episode 084: The US Bungling of the Coronavirus Outbreak with Dr. Michel Accad
Episode 084: The US Bungling of the Coronavirus Outbreak with Dr. Michel Accad Once again, the only news worth reporting and discussing (especially if you’re in health care) is the …
Episode 082: Coronavirus and How We’re Handling It
Episode 082: Coronavirus and How We’re Handling It Dominating the news today is the pandemic coronavirus or COVID 19. The viral infection that was believed to start in Wuhan, China …
Episode 081: A Curious Child Abuse Case with Dr. Niran Al-Agba
Episode 081: A Curious Child Abuse Case with Dr. Niran Al-Agba Virtually everyone agrees that children are at risk in society and need extra vigilance. Whether this is done by …
Episode 080: Can You Make Vaccinations Mandatory? Appearance on Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Snarkiness
Episode 080: Can You Make Vaccinations Mandatory? Appearance on Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Snarkiness After successfully avoiding the topic of vaccines which I don’t find particularly interesting I …
Episode 079: Health Care Price Transparency without an Executive Order with Dr. Bill Hennessey of Pratter
Episode 079: Health Care Price Transparency without an Executive Order with Dr. Bill Hennessey of Pratter Real health care price transparency is a an elusive goal for many in the …
Episode 078: How to Protect Yourself From an Online Attack with Dr. Todd Wolynn
Episode 078: How to Protect Yourself From an Online Attack with Dr. Todd Wolynn We’re back to medicine again with today’s episode but it probably pertains to anyone with a …