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 …
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 …
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 Testing Industrial Complex Strikes Again with Dr. Basavana Goudra
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 …
Can We Repair Trust in Public Health after COVID with Dr. Aaron Pomerantz
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 …
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. …
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 …
Health Care for Those Who Don’t Earn High Wages with Dr. David BergHealth Care for Those Who Don’t Earn High Wages with Dr. David Berg
Health Care for Those Who Don’t Earn High Wages with Dr. David Berg One of the scariest times for many workers is being presented with a bill for medical services. …
Make Sure Your Health Insurance Broker is Working for You and not the Insurance Company with David Contorno.
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 Asymptomatic Spread of SARS-CoV-2 a Thing? with Daniel Halperin, PhD
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 …
Urgent Care as Primary Care with Dr. Juliet Breeze of Next Level Medical
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 …
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 …
Surgery without Insurance with Dr. Keith Smith
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, …
Direct Contracting Has Fixed US Health Care with Ron Barshop
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 …
What It’s Like to Become a Doctor with Dr. Matt Moeller
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 …
The Basics of Bitcoin with John Bush of Live Free Academy
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 …
Mandatory COVID Vaccinations
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 …
Weight Loss that Works in Primary Care with Dr. Celia Egan
Weight Loss that Works in Primary Care Ask any primary care physician and they will tell you the toughest thing about helping their patients change lifestyle is that they don’t …
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 – …
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 – independent or employed. Today’s health care in the US is …
Science is Broken, It’s Time We Fix It with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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 …
Building an Electronic Health Record That Won’t Make You Pull Your Hair Out with Dr. Richard Sztramko
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 …
Don’t Sweat the COVID Variants with Dr. Monica Gandhi
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 …
The Failure of Fauci on Coronavirus with Peter Suderman
The Failure of Fauci on Coronavirus with Peter Suderman Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the head of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984 and …
We are All Imperfect Dads with Dr. Jeremy Toffle
We are All Imperfect Dads with Dr. Jeremy Toffle Perfection. We all strive for it. Some more maniacally than others, but we all look to be better versions of who …
If You’ve Had COVID, Don’t Get Vaccinated with Dr. Hooman Noorchashm
If You’ve Had COVID, Don’t Get Vaccinated with Dr. Hooman Noorchashm Now that we are entering the last transition phase of COVID-19 in the United States where we are moving …
American Independence Day from COVID
American Independence Day from COVID We’re talking about COVID and our American Independence Day from SARS-CoV-2 on June 1, 2021. There is some additional background information that we will leave …
Value Based Care Provides Neither Value Nor Care with Dr. Eric Bricker
Value Based Care Provides Neither Value Nor Care with Dr. Eric Bricker Health care, according to today’s guest Dr. Eric Bricker, is filled with euphemisms. One you hear a lot …
Vaccine Passports are a Dumb and Dangerous Idea
Vaccine Passports are a Dumb and Dangerous Idea Although the idea of vaccine passports have been floated about for at least half a year, the concept has really begun to …
Navigating Marriage in Medicine with Dr. Kate Mangona
Navigating Marriage in Medicine with Dr. Kate Mangona One thing few outside of medicine realize are the unique challenges doctors face in their personal relationships. Marriage, especially to someone without …
Birthing a Business with Hysterectomies with Dr. Richard Rosenfield
Birthing a Business with Hysterectomies with Dr. Richard Rosenfield Entrepreneurs are funny creatures. Some seem to be born to innovate and create businesses. Others, like today’s guest, create new businesses …
Understanding PCR in COVID-19 with Kevin McKernan
Understanding PCR in COVID-19 with Kevin McKernan One thing you can be certain of with COVID-19 is that there is no shortage of controversy. Whether it is lockdowns, treatment, vaccines, …
Blazing a New Path in Women’s Health with Dr. Diana Bitner
Blazing a New Path in Women’s Health Dr. Diana Bitner describes herself as a survivor. As an OB/GYN, she had what one would describe as a typical practice. She was …
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 …
Does Vitamin D Help Us Fight Infections? A Discussion with Dr. Vatsal Thakkar
Does Vitamin D Help Us Fight Infections? A Discussion with Dr. Vatsal Thakkar As COVID-19 continues to rage across the globe, everyone has been trying to figure out how to …
Episode 111: Why You Should Unbundle Your Health Insurance with Katy Talento
Episode 111: Why You Should Unbundle Your Health Insurance with Katy Talento The most obvious statement we can make about the US health care system is that it’s a mess. …
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 …