Our guests are John, a patient with an extraordinary story to tell, and Dr. John Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist from Louisville, KY. Dr. Mandrola is cardiology editor on Medscape where he writes a regular column and produces a weekly podcast. He is also the co-author of The Haywire Heart: How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You and What You Can Do To Protect Your Heart.

GUEST:

John Mandrola, MD: Twitter and Website

LINKS:

The Haywire Heart (Amazon link)

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Our guest is Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik, MD, PhD, a practicing internal medicine physician and fellow in ethics and infectious diseases at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He is head of the Monash-WHO Collaborating Centre for bioethics at the Monash Bioethics Centre. His academic work on infectious disease ethics is focused on vaccines, vector-borne disease, and drug resistance. Dr Jamrozik is lead author of the report of a Wellcome Trust funded project on ethical and regulatory issues related to human challenge studies in endemic settings.

GUEST:

Zeb Jamrozik, MD, PhD: Twitter and Webpage

LINKS:

• Jamrozik E and Heriot G. "Imagination and remembrance: What rolw should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and other epidemics." (In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences free text available)
• Jamrozik E and Heriot G. "Not in my backyard: COVID-19 vaccine development requires someone to be infected somewhere." (In The Medical Journal of Australia free text available)
• Euzebiusz Jamrozik and Michael Seldeling. Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings: Ethical and Regulatory Issues (Springer, 2020, free text available)

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Our guests are Thomas Wingert, a patient, Bogdan Enache, an electrophysiologist at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco, and Saurabh Jha, an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania.

LINK:

Point/Counterpoint on Halting the Implantation of Subcutaneous ICD. Editorial by B. Enache and J. Mandrola in JACC Electrophysiology.

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Our guest is Ted Okon, a nationally recognized expert on the policy and politics of cancer care. Mr. Okon has testified before Congress on cancer issues and is frequently on Capitol Hill discussing the nation’s cancer care delivery system.

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Ted Okon: Twitter and Community Oncology Alliance website

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Our guest is Professor David Heymann is an American physician and epidemiologist based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held leading positions at the WHO for more than 20 years, coordinating global responses to epidemics such as Ebola, AIDS, polio, and SARS. He also served as Chairman of Public Health England from 2009 until 2017. He shares his perspectives on post-pandemic life and on opportunities for the public health sector.

GUEST:

David Heymann: Professional page and Wikipedia page

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Ep. 140. Gabriela Gomes: Why Herd Immunity May Be At Hand

Ep. 148. Herd Immunity Models and Realities, with David Heymann and Paul Fine.

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In the aftermath of the dramatic surge of COVID cases and deaths in India, Michel Accad and Anish Koka revisit the question of lockdowns and the principles that should inform the response to epidemics.

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Ep. 162 A Libertarian's Case for Lockdowns, with Chris Snowdon

Ep. 160 Elise Amez-Droz: Those Treacherous "Essential" and "Non-Essential" Labels

Ep. 158 Alycia "The Bomb" Baumardner: A Fighter's Life Under Lockdown

Ep. 150 David Cayley on Ivan Illich

Special episode Accad and Koka on Lockdowns (Aug 2020)

Our guest is Dr. Anupam Singh, Assistant Professor of Medicine at SMC in Ghaziabad, who is in the thick of the COVID crisis in Delhi. He shares his perspective on the situation.

GUEST:

Dr. Anupam Singh’s Twitter and ResearchGate profile

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Our guest is Dr. Somalaram Venkatesh, interventional cardiologist In private practice in Bengaluru, India. He shares his thoughts on the current severe surge of COVID in India. Dr. Venkatesh obtained his medical degree and completed his cardiology training at PGI, Chandigarh. He is now director of cardiology at Aster Hospital, Bengaluru.

GUEST:

Somalaram Venkatesh, MD: Twitter and Professional website

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Our guest is Dan Morgan, MD, MS, a physician and epidemiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at the Baltimore VAMC, and a fellow at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP). We discuss a recent paper he co-authored about probabilistic diagnostic reasoning among clinicians.

GUEST:

Dan Morgan Twitter and Website

LINKS:

• Morgan D, et al. Accuracy of practitioners estimate of probability of diagnosis before and after testing. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2021.

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Our guest is Shawn Whatley, a physician in Canada who is the author of the recently released book When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare Is Failing. Dr. Whatley is past-president of the Ontario Medical Association and is a senior fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy in Toronto. 

GUEST:

Shawn Whatley, MD.  Blog and Twitter

BOOKS BY DR. WHATLEY:

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• When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why Canadian Medicare Is Failing
• No More Lethal Waits: 10 Steps to Transform Canada’s Emergency Departments 

PREVIOUS APPEARANCE ON THE SHOW:

Ep. 40 Practicing Medicine in Canada: Promises and Realities

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