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Should Your Doctor Be Strapped?

  • August 20th, 2017
  • visibility 2018 Views

Violence against frontline health care providers is at epidemic levels and Dr. Kathy Travnicek (a physician specializing in pain medicine) just got her permit to...

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What If Everything You Learned About Cholesterol Was A Lie?

  • August 18th, 2017
  • visibility 3459 Views

Citizen-scientist Dave Feldman joins us to talk about his research on cholesterol. We dig into how LDL and the like actually work, and some startling...

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When In Doubt, Blame Nurses (Mom Edition)

  • August 16th, 2017
  • visibility 2182 Views

The United States does a terrible job of protecting mothers from dying after giving birth. A new study suggests that nurses may contribute to the...

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Here’s What Killed Steve Jobs

  • August 14th, 2017
  • visibility 2196 Views

We unpack a new retrospective study that explored the effects of ditching conventional cancer therapies (chemo, radiation, surgery, hormone therapy) in favor of “alternative” medicine....

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Americans Don’t Drink Enough? Hold My Beer…

  • August 13th, 2017
  • visibility 2137 Views

The JAMA Psychiatry study we featured in our show earlier this week showed a remarkable rise in the prevalence of alcohol use disorder…and may have...

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LT Katie Blanchard RN & the Army That Deserted Her

  • August 11th, 2017
  • visibility 2977 Views

If you thought the culture of silence around workplace violence was pervasive in health care, wait until you combine health care with the US Army....

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7 Reasons To Be Addicted To Alcohol

  • August 10th, 2017
  • visibility 1988 Views

A JAMA Psychiatry article documents a dramatic rise in the prevalence of booze-related badness over the past decade. So we decided to screen Tom for...

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TribeTalk: Trump’s HUUUGE Drug Smackdown

  • August 8th, 2017
  • visibility 1911 Views

The Donald just declared the opioid crisis in the US an “official” emergency. HUUUUUUGE…doses of narcan.

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Put Down The Phone and Have Sex Already

  • August 8th, 2017
  • visibility 2010 Views

We discuss an article in The Atlantic that warns of smartphone-induced mental illness in the iGen (kids born between 1995 and 2007).

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The Boyz Are Back

  • August 5th, 2017
  • visibility 2147 Views

We’re baaaaack. New studio, new toys (including a dope electronic stethoscope and a little EMS figurine named “Tad”)… and same sad Vader. It’s Incident Report,...

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Oh No You Didn’t Press Ganey!

  • August 1st, 2017
  • visibility 2167 Views

The Measurement Industrial Complex® of Health 2.0 just announced a new quality measure: the rate of assaults on nurses. Is this meaningful progress or just...

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Can We Stop Criminalizing Mental Health? W/ Dr. Chris Weaver

  • July 31st, 2017
  • visibility 2399 Views

Chris Weaver, a PhD forensic psychologist, joins us to talk about the interface between law enforcement and the mentally ill, and how it might affect...

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