The Paradocs is a fun and lively discussion with a couple of docs on the practice of medicine. Occasionally serious, other times lighthearted, and accidentally informative. A show for physicians to learn more about what is going on and a great place for them to direct their friends and family to better understand the challenges they face. Part of the We Are Libertarians Podcast Network.
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How to Save Over 50% on Health Care at Your Business
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Are you a decision maker at your business? If you're a CEO, CFO, the head of HR, or perhaps the owner of a small, medium or large business then you owe it to yourself to check out this fairly simple solution to save over 50% on your health care spend. Health insurance is usually one of the biggest overhead expenses after salaries for any company an…
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The China COVID Lockdown - What's Happening? with Jennifer Zeng
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COVID has reshaped the world and China holds a unique position in the world's approach to combatting pandemics and in the fact that it was first described in the city of Wuhan. We may never know exactly where or how COVID originated in China but we can be certain that the unprecedented strategy to 'lockdown' was one that originated in China. The Lo…
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The Real History of Modern Medicine with Christy Chapin, PhD
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History is a funny thing. Often, we think we know what happened either as we experience it personally or have trusted sources that give us an account. However, it depends on who is relaying the information, and the prior biases and perspectives. The goal of a good historian is to gather information from multiple sources and figure out what happened…
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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 now that the president (accidentally?) mentioned that the pandemic of COVID-19 is over. In this episode, I cover mandates, vaccines, public health policy and much more. A frank discussion with you about w…
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Opening the Medical Practice of Your Dreams with Chris Habig
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In survey after survey, the number one satisfier for physicians - by a long way - is their relationship with patients. Anything you can do to improve or deepen that relationship makes the work better and decreases the incidence of burnout. Obviously, barriers put in the way that detract from creating a deeper relationship with patients makes the jo…
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The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine with Dr. John Abramson
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Occasionally, you come across an interview or subject that blows you away with incredible claims that are both out in the open - and yet invisible. Today's guest is an author and expert witness for some of the biggest pharmaceutical cases of this century, Dr. John Abramson. He reveals the rot that centers not only in the pharmaceutical industry but…
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A Talent Agency for Physicians with Ethan Nkana
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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 finding their clients jobs, negotiating the terms, and essentially doing all of the analytical work to determine market value for the "talent." What if the Tale…
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Trading a Hammer for a History. Dr. Blake Miller on Functional Medicine
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I confess that I hold a lot of biases when it comes to various surgical specialties. One such bias is that orthopedic surgeons - especially trauma - are not deep thinkers. My guest today completely turns that prejudice on its head as we discuss the role of nutrition and vitality in disease and recovery rates. Setting the Hammer Down Obviously, an o…
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Roe v. Wade Goes Down. What's Next? with Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled on the Roe v. Wade case and concluded that Americans have a constitutional right to an abortion up to viability of the fetus. That has been the law of the land... until now (or at least very soon). Roe v. Wade Overturned A few weeks ago, a draft majority decision by the Court was leaked which showed that there wa…
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Surgeon Fired Over His Opinions - Mines Bitcoin Instead with Dr. Buck Parker
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What would you do if you were fired by your employer over something you had said on social media? Would you be able to survive or would you have to scramble to find work? That scenario is exactly what was faced by today's guest, general surgeon Dr. Buck Parker. And his solution was a surprising one. Seeds of an Entrepreneur It doesn't appear that D…
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The Way to Build False Scientific Consensus with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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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 the Great Barrington Declaration where he and two other prominent academicians laid out a case for a more focused protection plan for…
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Using Blockchain to Solve Health Care with Ray Dogum
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The US health care system is fraught with all sorts of problems. Many of these have to do with consolidation in the market and scores of rent-seekers (those using legislation and regulation to maintain their market share. Those issues can probably be best resolved with fundamental changes within the halls of government. However, some of these probl…
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Episode 164: Medical Education Credentialing Boards - Follow the Money with Charles Kroll and Elizabeth Tremblay
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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 ensure a baseline within medical education institutions across the entire country for medical students, foreign medical graduates and resi…
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Episode 163: How We Reformed State Government to Save Billions with Christin Deacon
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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 governments losing track of money. Also, with all the people who have been elected on the platform of 'transforming' government or making it efficient, …
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Episode 162: Expanding Choice for Physician Board Certification (NBPAS) with Dr. Paul Mathew
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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 but ultimately sit at the end of their years of training for board certification. At one time, once a physician got board certified, they were c…
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Episode 161: I Was at the Canadian Freedom Convoy and a Hockey Game Broke Out with Trucker Warren Speyers
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The COVID pandemic has created a lot of interesting surprising and challenging political dynamics in countries all over the world. In the United States, we have a clear divide between those who declare themselves Democrats and Republicans in whether they support mandates and vaccine passports. The treatment of children remains a subject of a tremen…
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Episode 160: Risking the Loss of Your Medical License for Allegations of Misinformation with Dr. Meg Edison
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If there is one thing that seems obvious throughout the pandemic, public discourse on just about everything seems to have broken our brains. We are incapable of having discussions without vitriol and there appears to be a real desire to not simply win arguments but destroy our ideological enemies. This leads to all sorts of strange behavior like fr…
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Episode 159: Retiring in the Midst of a Pandemic with Dr. David Graham
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Dr. Graham is the most frequent guest on the Paradocs Podcast and has appeared 5 previous times to discuss COVID (they can be found here, here, here, here, and here). Today, we talk a lot of COVID but also what it takes to retire amidst a pandemic. Do you need extra financial security during these times? What strategies work best? But mostly, we di…
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(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. Anthony Fauci. We have had a huge loss of trust in our public health institutions and a change must be made. This is the speech someone needs to make as they replace the current regime which has had a run through two…
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Episode 157: The Testing Industrial Complex Strikes Again with Dr. Basavana Goudra
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Whether you are in medicine or not, you are affected by the board certification and board recertification process. The certification and recertification process is not only expensive but also stressful contributing to burnout with physicians. After completing a specialty residency training, candidates for board certification have to jump through a …
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Episode 156: Can We Repair Trust in Public Health after COVID with Dr. Aaron Pomerantz
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Throughout the pandemic that has raged over the past two years, the press and public have leaned heavily on experts on navigating our way through uncertainty. The most prominent member of this class of public health experts is Dr. Anthony Fauci who is essentially the face of the pandemic response and sets policy used by most state, county, and loca…
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Episode 155: DonorSee is a New Innovative Way to Run a Charity with Gret Glyer
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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 America by flying on a whim to Malawi, he never expected that in less than ten years he would create and run a multi-million dollar global charity. In his search for a fulfilling life, Gret fou…
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Episode 154: Rethinking Vaccine Mandates and the Omicron Variant with Dr. Monica Gandhi
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Vaccine mandates, mask mandates, boosters, and variants have been a constant source of debate and controversy with the pandemic. My guest today is Dr. Monica Gandhi, an expert in immunology and infectious disease who runs the HIV clinic at UCSF. She has been a fairly prominent voice in support of the mask and vaccine mandates in her home state of C…
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Episode 153: Crowd Health is Go Fund Me for Health Care on Nitro with CEO Andy Schoonover
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What happens when you take Go Fund Me and put it into an ecosystem of likeminded folks who want to build a community to care for each other's health care expenses? You get Crowd Health which draws upon some of the concepts of crowd funding for one time health care expenses within its community. By taking people from all over the country and putting…
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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 typical interactions with others at family gatherings, sporting events, concerts, and business meetings. Unless we are prepared to radically change the way we live our lives and ch…
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