Alchemy of Politics with Rusha Modi

Ep. 25 - Health or Hype Medical Misinformation in the Modern Media with Dr Nina Shapiro

July 25, 2022 Rusha Modi
Alchemy of Politics with Rusha Modi
Ep. 25 - Health or Hype Medical Misinformation in the Modern Media with Dr Nina Shapiro
Show Notes

In this episode, Rusha interviews Dr. Nina Shapiro, Dr. Nina is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has the rare ability to understand complex medical science but also communicate it to the public in a concise, clear, and comprehensive way. The pandemic has brought to the forefront the weaponization of medical mis and dis information. We discuss the nature of medical information online from its historical roots to today.

We hit upon the rise of the anti-vaxxer trend, debates over mask mandates, the Theranos scandal, and the nutritional myths and fad diets that seem to perpetuate themselves. We also discuss in detail her fabulous book, "Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not."


Key Highlights:

[00:01 - 07:45] - Opening segment

Rush introduces Dr. Nina Shapiro!

Hype is a problem

Physicians should be more vocal

[07:46 - 19:29] – The Dangers of Hype in the Medical Field

Hype can be dangerous and deceptive

The placebo effect

Informing patients about the risks and benefits of treatments

[19:30 - 27:08] – Breaking Down Complex Topics Into Easy To Understand Language

Breaking down complex topics

 The lost trust during the COVID response

It led to a decrease in the number of people who are seeking medical advice

[41:09 – 51:15] - Closing Segment

Dr. Nina discusses how physicians need to be more aware of the public’s distrust of the medical profession

Communicate with patients in a way that is both effective and non-confrontational

Connect with Dr. Nina at her website, get her book: Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not., http://drninashapiro.com/, https://twitter.com/drninashapiro, https://www.amazon.com/Hype-Doctors-Medical-Exaggerated-Claims/dp/1250149304, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-07-21/mask-mandate-covid-pandemic-los-angeles

 
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Tweetable Quotes: 

Dr. Nina Shapiro - "If you're just looking at the media, where you trust the people and you like what they have to say, you're missing literally half of what the country.”

Dr. Nina Shapiro - "I don't think of medicine or science as a belief system. I think of it as what it is, a fact system."

Rusha Modi - “You're going to have to find a way to package it so that people are willing to kind of take the medicine.”