Straight Talking Doc Unhinged

AI in such mediums as Google, Chat GPT, and Claude is becoming a device through which doctors and patients can make diagnoses, prescribe treatments, and distill symptoms down to diseases. If you are dizzy, what can be...

We are two primary care physicians with 75 years of collective experience. We both are passionate about what we do, we get to know our patients well, we dig into issues and don't accept protocol robotic medicine, we...

Alan and Andy both lived through COVID not on the sidelines but in the center of it all. Both took care of patients directly, Alan in a hospital for weeks at a time in the epicenter of the pandemic, Andy in multiple...

The cardiology community is quite adamant about their newest guidelines, whether it's about pushing LDL cholesterol below 70 or driving systolic blood pressure under 120. The patient's age, wishes, symptoms, and even...

We are hearing more and more about amyloid, a protein that can be deposited in the organs of humans and cause great harm. Or is that too simplistic? We now have very expensive and poorly tested drugs that will reduce...

This week we discuss medical TV shows, such as House and the Pitt and Grey's Anatomy, as well as medical moments on non-medical shows. Studies suggest that the message of these shows--the doctor as hero, the benefit of...

At the ADA Research Convention several members trying to pass out information were forced out after the police were called. They were ADA leaders who wrote an editorial blasting the current Presidential administration...

Both Andy and Alan have been reported to their respective medical boards, both have had to hire lawyers, both have had to fight for their right to speak and to practice medicine. The Board of Physicians is an...

Alan and Andy work in different medical environments. Alan works in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the county, one with many who are uninsured, undocumented, who have to work multiple jobs, who have limited food...

We reviewed what several physician podcasts have to say about the new cholesterol guidelines. We spoke about the guidelines in our March podcast, and also discussed in a later podcast how the local cardiology group in...

The Emergency Room can be life saving, but also can be a place to be feared. We discuss several cases in which protocols and robotic thinking put patients in precarious positions, exposing them to unnecessary dangers...

We talk a lot about Big Pharma throughout this podcast but today we discuss its many tentacles. Soon after making the podcast, Alan watched a hockey game and there was a drug ad on the ice! The Pharma industry controls...

This week Andy was reported to the Maryland Board of Medicine by a local cardiology group because some studies he included in his practice newsletter offended them. These were major studies, peer reviewed, but did not...

The first half of American Medical History ends at the Flexner Report, which entirely morphed American Healthcare into a monolithic corporate entity under the complete control of the AMA. Every aspect of healthcare...

Dementia tells us a great deal about our healthcare system. Not even noted to be a disease at the time of Medicare's birth in 1965 it is now one of the most onerous and common diseases of the elderly. Why? And why is...