Live Q+A originally on Facebook. We talked: nurse practitioners, women vs. men, should you leave your job, helicopter parenting and safetyism, un-masked prom COVID catastrophizing, and more!Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-4-21-22/Here's my previous episodes on Nurse Practitioners, following your path and the Turntable Health story. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teen mental health has taken a dive over the last decade and the pandemic hasn't helped. I discuss 4 reasons why, and what we can do about it. Here's that Atlantic article mentioned and my previous episode on social media & teenage girls. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/teen-mental-health/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should YOU do a silent meditation retreat? Dr. Angelo DiLullo & I recently held a 6-day retreat with 30 healthcare folks from our audience, and here's what happened 🤯Video: https://zdoggmd.com/meditation-retreat/Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here. Topics & Timecodes00:00 Intro01:50 What happens when we are silent and meditate, the nature of thought06:15 Non-verbal connection/communication on retreat09:51 Strong emotional, empathic openings and experiences14:04 The group dynamic on silent retreat15:36 The journey inward, removal of distraction20:21 Emotion, suffering, and the opening of the heart24:25 Psychedelics compared with retreat26:22 Eating in silence with others29:32 Support on retreat & group activities34:52 Meditative concentration (joriki)37:24 How to sign up for retreat38:11 The Zen tradition, koans, mu39:26 Angelo’s retreat specifics, pain, guided meditationVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult...for a medication error.It was a tragic error that many nurses have told me could have happened to many of them: crappy tech, poor systems, understaffing, and human error leading to the death of a vulnerable patient. And now we have the conviction of a nurse on criminal charges for such a mistake. Here are my thoughts on why this is a TERRIBLE precedent for anyone working in healthcare. Additionally, read statements from the American Nurses Association (ANA) and American Association of Critical Care Nurses (ACCN) regarding the criminal conviction. Here are my prior episodes discussing Vaught's case.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/nurse-convicted/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys are back in town 😂 and we talk COVID policy failures, fact-checking fallacies, criminalizing nurse Radonda Vaught's fatal med error, Twitter "experts," safetyism, fixing healthcare efficacy and costs, and MUCH more.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/prasad-makary/Here's all our shows with Marty Makary. Here's The VPZD Podcast.  Topics & Timecodes00:00 Fact-checking the facts, COVID policy failures, RCT's & parachute studies08:11 Masking, vaccinating and boosting kids22:28 Nurse RaDonda Vaught facing criminal conviction after a fatal med error31:55 4th dose, Twitter giving rise to questionably qualified leaders, virtue signaling45:30 Adolescent mental health, extreme safetyism, antifragility, mandates1:25:42 Getting back to fixing healthcare, the burden of medical debt, healthcare's hidden costs1:33:01 Solutions like eliminating middlemen, price transparency & direct primary care 1:40:00 Long COVID further inflating cost, reductionism, NIH funding, finding the synthesis position1:52:27 USA vs. European COVID strategies, mandatory boosters to keep medical licenseVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US Senate just voted to make Daylight Savings Time (DST) permanent. Sleep doctors think this is unsafe, and here's why.Check out the position paper from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). And check out this interview I did with pediatrician Dr. Blair Duddy on why teens need later school start times and more sleep.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/daylight-savings/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awakening from the dream of separation and suffering may be as simple as looking for WHO is trying to wake up. Who ARE you? Using self-inquiry (like meditation on steroids) to unlock your true identity.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/self-inquiry/Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here.Topics & Timecodes00:00 Intro00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry05:10 Who are you? 08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego19:53 Resistance & shadow24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening, non-duality32:10 Surrendering to unfiltered, self-less reality36:12 Why the smartest people have the most trouble with this38:20 Investigating the imagined self, the science of no-self41:39 Can the experience of unfiltered reality be destabilizing , the goal of liberationVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Swedish study is causing anxiety among many that mRNA vaccines can insert into our DNA. Here's what's REALLY going on.Here's the study. Here's a good outline of reverse transcriptase and integrase. And here's another piece on viral genome integration.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-dna/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I finally deleted my Twitter account, here's why. Also, Putin, Boosters, and more, LIVE. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-2-27-22/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You don’t have to be a writer or “creative” type to channel authenticity and spontaneity in your life and work. A fascinating conversation with book & television writer Johnny B. Truant.Watch our prior show on changing your life story, get Johnny's book The Story Solution here, and check out his multimedia story studio.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/creativity/Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro, how story is excavated vs created 04:19 Working with a partner, why planning too much sucks, mistakes evolve the storyline, why I don't edit videos 12:34 The role of faith in the creative process, working with Tom Hinueber, why spontaneity shouldn't be labeled as lazy 18:03 Left brain vs right brain, creating structure without over-planning, opening a hole in the universe 20:15 Channeling creative flow, pulling past experience into current endeavors, silencing the noise to tap into a deeper flow 25:50 Meditation & improv, medicine & feeling into the patient story, articulating the ineffable 33:27 Factors contributing to writer's block, achieving a state of alert presence, mental illness, substance use & reality 38:09 False memories, The Mandela Effect, objective reality, Alt-Middle & holding strong views loosely, January 6th 49:13 Inhabiting different perspectives, flexibility in belief, role of social media in creating silos, corpus callosum analogy & synthesis between sides 54:58 The arbitrary nature of reality, forming identity around belief & questioning these beliefs, limitations of science, theories of reality 1:07:15 Awakening after trauma, grieving the loss of identity, reality as a simulation, meta-storytelling 1:18:38 Glimpses into unfiltered reality & the unpredictable nature of mini-awakenings 1:25:00 Psychedelics as a double-edged sword, meditation as a more predictable method, repackaging experience as a story 1:28:15 What parameters define "real"? Emotion, sensation & how we label perceptual filters, surrendering to unpleasant sensations 1:34:35 My trip to the dentist, surrendering without judgement, suffering is optional, Return On Luck (ROL) 1:41:14 The stories we tell ourselves, the delusion of separation, my retreat experience  1:46:08 Stories as a trojan horse, disarming people with humor, why resonating with story matters 1:50:27 Using stories to reach others, empathy vs. compassion, identity development in teens & pre-teensVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices