The VPZD Show

Affirmative Action, AI Medical Recording, AI Doomers

Easy topics for easy times 🤭 Originally streamed ⁠⁠⁠LIVE on YouTube⁠⁠⁠! (#42) Using Beethoven's Archduke Trio as a lens for why AI-generated art still falls short of tr

Macklemore, Confidence Intervals, LG Spying

Exploring the issues of the day, (Mackle)more or less 🤭 Originally streamed ⁠⁠LIVE on YouTube⁠⁠! (#42) Topics covered: the Macklemore/Ed Sheeran controversy over politic

Pancreatic Cancer Drug, USPSTF, Tylenol-Autism

We're trying to become better listeners, SO PREPARE FOR SOME SHOUTING 🤭 Originally streamed ⁠LIVE on YouTube⁠! (#41) We cover the new pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib

Fauci's Diary, Vinay's FDA Experience, Jason Arday (Recorded LIVE)

Yeah it's been over a year but you can't keep a couple of handsome brown guys apart forever 😎 A BRAND NEW VPZD EPISODE, originally streamed LIVE on YouTube! (#40) ⁠Dr.

Ivy Leagues, Vaccine Science, Politics & Stuff

We're back, just cuz we had dinner and felt like a live nightcap. Enjoy! Watch the originally live YouTube video here. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite pod

Trump Transition, Reproductive Rights, Vaccine Truth

Another live episode, we touch on a BUNCH of stuff, including Trump's transition, possible FDA appointments, RFK Jr., letters we've gotten about reproductive rights, was

Why Trump Won & What It Means For Healthcare

Regardless of your political leanings, this live podcast WILL traumatize you 😻.  Election reactions, media polarization, what this might mean for healthcare and WAY more

Rogan & Trump, Dumb Medical Practices, A VPZD Book Club?

In this episode we discuss Joe Rogan/Trump Interview insights, the ‘science’ of polling, irrational COVID policies, erosion of trust in the medical establishment, the dan

Public Health Sex Party Hypocrisy

Former New York public health official Jay Varma's hypocritical sex parties during COVID, why we refuse to talk to most reporters, VP’s take on the new schizophrenia drug

Blind Spots (w/Dr. Marty Makary)

Marty's in tha' house to rap about his new book, out Sept. 17th! Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health. Video version here. Subscrib

Biden’s Drug Pricing, Fake Health News, Marty’s Book

The three horseman of the apocalypse are BACK! We talk Marty’s new book, CVS as a PBM and the effect on independent community pharmacies, Biden’s medicare drug price nego

Losing ZDadd, MOC is Dumb, Medical Masking

The most epic medical bromance in history is BACK and we've brought our A-game 🔥 Video version here. Topics covered: 00:00 Intro, WE'RE BACK! 4:02 Zubin's Dad's Passing 3

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 c

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 athlet

The Misinformation Police Strike Out (& More)

The boys are back in town 🔥. We talk about the future of social media, Elon Musk's Twitter, misinformation policing failures, metabolic health, being your authentic self

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 th

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 t

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

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

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