Straight Talking Doc Unhinged
A podcast by a doctor telling you all the dark and dirty secrets of my profession and how to understand what docs say and use it to become wiser and healthier! I separate myth from truth so you can be a better advocate for yourself.Remember the three keys to health: eat well, exercise, and stay away from doctors!
Episodes
28 episodes
The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare
The Drug Industry was front and center in the creation of our health care industry. The reforms that created modern healthcare in 1911 and beyond were predicated on developing a research infrastructure in medical schools and in the medica...
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How to Fix our Messed Up Health Care System: Lower cost = Better health outcomes.
In our book, A Return to Healing, we dissect what is wrong with our health care system, and show how you as a patient can better advocate for your own health in a system that often deceives you for profit. But too, we want to fix the syst...
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Apple Cider Vinegar: Why doctors stray away from nutrition
In the show Apple Cider Vinegar, the writers create a binary: the good and all-knowing doctors vs the charlatan nutrition gurus. The gap is so wide between the two approaches that the reader is left thinking that in cancer, as in all thin...
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How "Us vs Them" thinking is used to defend the medical system: David Frum and his Atlantic Article.
Whether it is in attacking Kennedy, or in refusing to acknowledge what is dysfunctional about Medicare, Democrats use us vs them binary thinking to defend the medical system. By finding easy targets that seem inane, or by inventing those ...
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the cholesterol myth.
We all believe that cholesterol is so bad that we better measure it regularly and lower it by drugs. Just ask your cardiologist: Got to get that LDL cholesterol below 70 or catastrophe will ensue! But as we explain, this is...
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Episode 23: The human cost of COVID's Religious dogma, one patient at a time
The statistics bounce around about COVID even as the virus wanes and becomes just another recurrent cold. But the religious fanaticism of the COVID faithful, the rituals, the restrictions, those have not disappeared. In my world of ...
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Episode 22: the Gospel of Infectious Disease, Book One, COVID rituals
From masks to one -way aisles to PPE to 20-second hand washing and 6-foot separation, COVID has demonstrated the religiosity of health care more than any singular event in my lifetime. The Gospel of Infectious Disease, which includes publ...
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Episode Twenty-One: The Sciency Song and the Voice of the Medical Religion
In my book The Great Stupidity, which ...
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Episode Twenty: The Gospel of Cancer Book Two, Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer helps us understand the religion of health care through a very unique lens. For any religion to be effective it must instill fear into its adherents, have priests who offer a means of alleviating that fear, and then provid...
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Episode Nineteen: The Gospel of Cardiology Book Three: Eliquis
Health Care has taken the shape of a religious theocracy in this country, with Trillions spent for the allure of salvation and eternal life, and a medical industrial complex mimicking the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages driving people down d...
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Episode 18, The Religion of Medicine
The only way I can grasp the huge gap between medical fact and the dogmatic myths spewed out by doctors and slurped up by frightened patients who seek salvation and long life is to view health care through the lens of it being a religion. ...
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Episode 17: Is your doctor a robot?
We have talked about how Flexner's imprint on US health care leaves doctors as unthinking pimps for the drug companies. Doctors rarely independently evaluate interventions and tests, nor is their gaze patient-specific. Rather, they ...
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Episode 16: The myth of cancer screening and PSA
We have been told that picking up cancers early and fixing them will save lives. But does it? It depends on the cancer. For breast and colon cancer, for instance, lifetime screening saves 1/1000 people from cancer deaths compa...
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Episode 15: Debunking the Cholesterol Myth
Since the publication of Ansel Keys landmark and fraudulent Seven Countries Study over 50 years ago, our nation has been on an anti-cholesterol kick. We ascribe almost God-like meaning to the cholesterol measurement--especially Big Bad LD...
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Episode Thirteen: The Flexnerian Biostate
From the seeds of Flexner's Report grew the biostate in which we currently live. COVID certainly was the biostate on steroids, although the biostate has been part of our lives for decades thanks to Flexner.What are the ingredients of ...
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Episode 13: The legacy of racism spurred by the Flexner Report
We have already heard how the Flexner Report in 1911 reduced doctors to robotic drones, beholden to corporate America, under the strict rule of AMA policies and dictates, who were taught that patients are nothing more than a series of numbers t...
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Episode 12: The seeds of our medical destruction, Flexner Part Two
In part 2 of our look at the Flexner Report, we explore the nuts and bolts of the report and show how an insignificant educator, a fledgling medical organization, and a Eugenicist at Hopkins conspired with industry to reshape the entire medical...
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Episode 11: The seeds of our Medical Destruction, Flexner Part One
In 1911 the medical world redirected itself with the publication of the Flexner Report, a legacy we still live with today. Everything we discuss in this podcast--from putting numbers over people, to doctors being pimps of drug companies, ...
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Episode Ten: The harm of all those "lifesaving" Snake Oils
When doctors uses deception and tricks to convince you to think that all the tests, drugs, and procedures they sell to you are "necessary and lifesaving," it's also crucial that they sell you on a fiction even more crucial to their role as unwi...
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Episode Nine: Which outcomes of medical interventions matter
When we have a medical society hell-bent on measuring and fixing your numbers, you'll get a lot of tests, procedures, and drugs all designed to find abnormal numbers and fix them. But really, we need to base our tests and treatments on cl...
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Episode Eight: It's all about Numbers
As we delve into the dysfunction of our health care system, the most salient problem is that of numbers. We as doctors and as a profit-driven health care mega-complex have reduced patients into a series of measurements that, if abnormal, ...
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Pimps and Drug Dealers
“Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is today controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.”-William OslerAt the turn of the last century, William Osler...
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Episode Six: The Bricks of Medical Deception
When we fall prey to doctors who promise us the world and delivery us a dish of deception and snake oil covered in a sauce of science and benign intent, we are easily fooled. Doctors are good at frightening us and then telling us, in the ...
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Why patients believe the myths their doctors tell them
To understand why our medical system spends so much money to generate such bad results, we have to understand how it convinces patients to engage in acts that do not help them but which they believe are necessary and lifesaving. Doctors o...
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Why doctors don't tell you the whole truth
We've been discussing afib and the use of blood thinners to prevent strokes. We showed how medical statistics can be manipulated to show exaggerated benefit while minimizing risk, how surrogate markers (all strokes vs clinically significa...
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