The VPZD Show

The VPZD Show episodes:

• 02.16.2023

  CDC Masking Comments, Prior Auths, Paxlovid Data

  Famous docs who can’t process evidence, prior authorization in healthcare and care variation, private equity and gray areas in medicine, the decline of academic medical centers, indoctrination in education, does Paxlovid actually work in populations that matter and the biases...

  
• 01.11.2023

  Sudden Deaths, Damar Hamlin, FDA Bivalent Fail

  We were both victims of the "tripledemic" and now have Long Cold but we're BACK! In Episode 30 we dive into the recent focus on sudden deaths and cardiac arrest in athletes such as Damar Hamlin and whether vaccine causation...

  
• 11.17.2022

  The Misinformation Police Strike Out (& More)

  The boys are back in town

  
• 10.15.2022

  Colonoscopy, Ladapo & Science Mag, UMN White Coat Oath

  ZD visits VP studios for a broad discussion about colonoscopy, Florida's surgeon general Ladapo and Science magazine, the new oath taken by UMN medical students during their White Coat ceremony, and MUCH more. The only thing missing is VP's signature...

  
• 10.07.2022

  NYU Professor Fired, COVID Personality Changes, College Mask Madness

  We discuss firing of the NYU professor who's class was too hard, the problems with screening for medical school admission, Dr. Glauckomflecken's maskless Twitter selfie thing and the nature of virtue signaling, why JEDI aren't woke enough according to Scientific...

  
• 09.24.2022

  Bivalent Boosters, Healthcare Masking, Sensible Medicine

  VP and ZD celebrate the return of in-person conferences, lament the challenges of continued mandatory masking in healthcare settings, and talk about better ways to get at truth (yeah, I'm kinda phoning in the summary of this dope discussion this...

  
• 09.06.2022

  Omicron Boosters 4 ALL, CO2 Meter Madness

  A Labor Day Special! CDC recommends bivalent Omicron-specific boosters for everyone, the madness of the CO2 meter crowd, journalism's challenges, mean attending physician comments, the evolution of language, and more! Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our...

  
• 08.28.2022

  Canceled Public Health Doc, AAP Fails, Dr. Oz

  The saga of Dr. Leana Wen, omicron-specific boosters for the fall, low uptake for vaccinating kids <5 years old, is the American Academy of Pediatrics a broken and failed organization (read Vinay's article on Sensible Medicine here), Novak Djokovic and...

  
• 07.22.2022

  Trust Issues, Sensible Medicine, Ideologic Possession

  How can you determine who is trustworthy when it comes to medical information? Our new project "Sensible Medicine," untangling the complexities of health care reform, angry doctor Covidian tweets with magical thinking and religiosity, the dangers of over-testing and over-treatment...

  
• 07.07.2022

  Omicron Booster Science, Policy Ethics, Tribalism

  We deep dive into how our tribal divisions influence interpretations of science, ethics, and policy (topic list below). Here's the Offit interview I mentioned. Topic List Omicron-specific boosters Data on severe disease prevention and booster rationale The challenges of case-control data for kids' vaccination Evidence-based morality,...

  
• 06.12.2022

  The Death Throes Of Covidian Culture (& Some Cancer Stuff 4 Tha' Clicks)

  Stanford medical school commencement ceremony, boosters for 5-11 year olds, Cat COVID, the end of pre-departure screening, VP's Oncology video drama, Twitter addiction and "second selfing," is continual feedback a good thing, San Francisco DA gets recalled, new immunotherapy for...

  
• 06.03.2022

  Guns, Vaccines, & Monkeys

  We dive into the riddle of gun violence in America, violence against healthcare professionals, public health officials and closing schools, will we need an annual COVID shot and how would we study that, the emergence of monkeypox, and the Depp/Heard...

  
• 05.19.2022

  Less Is More Medicine (w/Dr. Rita Redberg)

  We talk with Dr. Rita Redberg (professor of medicine & cardiologist at UCSF) about how very often less is more when it comes to medical care. We cover cancer screening (PSA, mammograms, blood testing, colonoscopy, CT screening for lung cancer), the...

  
• 05.07.2022

  Supreme Court Abortion Decision & Crazy COVID Stuff

  CDC data collection, hepatitis in kids, Johnson & Johnson vaccine limited use, more on physician "influencers," the Roe V. Wade Supreme Court leaked draft decision, surprise medical billing, a nutty Twitter COVID story, seroprevalence of COVID in children, the White...

  
• 04.29.2022

  Moderna For Kids, Physician-Influencers, Stanford Nurses Strike

  Elon Musk buys Twitter and what that may mean, group mind and the threat of nuclear holocaust, the conundrum of "physician influencers" on social media, Moderna's push to get EUA for it's vaccine in kids younger than 5, the Stanford...

  
• 04.15.2022

  China Lockdowns, Teen Mental Health, Audience Capture

  We dive DEEP into all the things in this rare in-person video episode of The VPZD Show. And VP's lookin' pretty fly for a brown guy in that black jacket

  
• 04.08.2022

  Ivermectin, NYC Toddler Masks, Dumb Policies

  In this episode: Ivermectin, the latest Twitter absurdities, vacation without COVID, Will Smith, why medical conferences SUCK, NYC's toddler mask policy, why so many academics leave for pharma, that 4th dose, and more! Full transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/vpzd-15/ Subscribe to "The VPZD Show"...

  
• 03.23.2022

  Worship Lord Zero COVID, 4th Booster, Dumb Policies

  We're back! In this episode we talk: dumb COVID policies, mask shaming on both sides, Kyrie Irving vaccine controversy, worshipping Lord Zero COVID (Hong Kong and elsewhere), press coverage biases, a FOURTH booster shot, ethical considerations around pharma not providing...

  
• 03.01.2022

  Kids' Museum COVID Policy, 5-11 y.o. Vax Efficacy, Public Health Restrictions

  In this episode we discuss: -Dr. Z's Twitter "bullying" of the California Academy of Sciences kids' museum over their restrictive booster/testing entrance policy (and why Z deleted Twitter at last). Read about it in MedPage Today. -New data on the efficacy (or...

  
• 02.17.2022

  Tribalism, Deplatforming, FDA Kids' Vaccine Reversal

  In this episode: The badges of tribal identity for COVID thesis/antithesis tribes, "deplatforming" scientists and the conditioning of young people, liberals and conservatives trading places, aiming for post-cynical discourse, the perils of comparing nations' COVID outcomes, and the FDA's crazy...

  
• 02.04.2022

  Booster Coercion, Vax 4 Toddlers, Canceling Rogan

  The docs talk about Vinay getting a booster or losing his job, why we continue to mask children, Pfizer's vaccine dance with the FDA around children younger than 5, the wisdom of trying to cancel Joe Rogan, Spotify's "trusted" COVID...

  
• 01.20.2022

  Dr. Robert Malone's Joe Rogan Interview, Decoded

  Vinay and Z dive deep on the latest censored antithesis hero while trying to make sense of sense-making in general. Here's Vinay's piece on this in Unherd. And here's the Rebel Wisdom episode on sense-making that I referenced. Full transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/vpzd-10/ Subscribe...

  
• 01.13.2022

  Offit & Kids' Boosters, Schizo CDC, Omicron Dominoes Fall

  We dive into Dr. Paul Offit's Atlantic piece on boosting teens, the nature of the CDC's apparent schizophrenia, the long term effects on the "pandemic generation," and how Omicron is causing all our prior policy dominoes to fall. Also: FUNNY...

  
• 01.06.2022

  Omicron Mitigation, Djokovic, Dumb COVID Tweets

  In this Omi-sode: 1) Can omicron be mitigated AT ALL? The Bay Area experience currently. 2) Novak Djokovic and the COVID vaccine 3) Covidiots vs. Covidians, where is the Alt-Middle? Rogan's role. 4) The dumbest tweets of 2021 5) Who was most right about COVID...

  
• 12.27.2021

  Your Date With Omicron, "Fringe" Scientists, Myocarditis, COVID & College Kids

  Many questions addressed on this last episode of 2021! Should people who talk about COVID policy actually see COVID patients, and are doctors biased by their daily practice experience? How should holiday meals "safely" occur, and how can we understand risk and...

  
• 12.15.2021

  Rogan/McCullough, Boosters & Omicron, Myocarditis Trial Data, Virtue Signaling

  This week we dive into Dr. Z's personal booster decision, do vaccines reduce transmission in setting of variants like Omicron, Joe Rogan’s interview with Dr. Peter McCullough , the hypocrisy of physicians who demand masks and distancing and then do...

  
• 12.10.2021

  Stifling Physician Voices, Politicized Journalism, German Kids Study, Policy Solutions

  In this episode we dive into some emails Dr. Z received about hospital COVID policies and medical education (and how our leaders are screwing up), the problem with mandates in healthcare, and strongly negative feedback for us from a critical...

  
• 12.04.2021

  Omicron Panic, Natural Immunity, Fluvoxamine, Boosters, Fauci (w/ Dr. Marty Makary)

  Dr. Marty Makary joins the fray for a science & reason SMACKDOWN

  
• 12.01.2021

  Dr. Oz, Omicron, Boosters, Saving Science

  For the week ending Dec. 1st 2021, VP and ZD dive into Dr. Oz running for the senate, the Omicron gambit, dumb travel restrictions, what the heck with boosters 4 all, poor quality science and biased scientific oversight, and MUCH...

  
• 11.24.2021

  Kids Inside For Thanksgiving? Should Fauci Quit? Boosters 4 All?

  Dr. Z and Dr. Vinay Prasad get unfiltered about the NY Times recommendations for a safe COVID Thanksgiving, whether Dr. Fauci should quit, and whether a healthy young person should get a Moderna booster, and more! Here's all our other video...

  
• 11.18.2021

  Medication, Mandates, Middle Ground

  In this inaugural episode of our new collaborative show, Dr. Vinay Prasad (UCSF hematologist/oncologist) and Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA the hospitalist known as ZDoggMD) team up for a medical show designed to bring you up to speed on the weeks...