The ZDoggMD Show

The complex ethical, medical, and psychological issues relating to women's health & abortion are nuanced and often non-intuitive. An OB/Gyn doc joins me to help us better understand.Dr. Alexandre (Alex) West is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Connecticut. Here's a link with support services for people with peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy termination for medical reasons. Here's another link for emotional support following pregnancy termination. And here's information on birth control, miscarriage management and abortion.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/abortion-facts/Topics & Timecodes00:00 Intro03:13 Scope of obstetrics, abortion as a part of the entire reproductive journey, legislator qualifications (or lack thereof)07:46 Factors leading to unwanted pregnancy, nuances of birth control including eligibility, access & effectiveness11:41 Ethical considerations including autonomy (personal control), maleficence (helping) & non-maleficence (not doing harm)19:00 How pregnancy "weeks" are calculated, fetal cardiac activity, PCOS24:27 Ethics of maternal autonomy vs. fetal autonomy28:49 Ectopic pregnancy35:33 The moral matrix, Alt-Middle perspective, mental health, postpartum depression & legislation as a barrier 40:59 Nuance surrounding the definition of "life-threatening," medical decision-making & potential provider legal implications45:31 The morning after pill, medication & procedural termination options, Mifepristone & Mifepristol52:40 Tools, team & trust, teratogenic pregnancies, diabetes & cancer in pregnancy1:01:44 Preventing unwanted pregnancies, need for education, birth control access, managing baseline health conditions, social determinants of health1:07:21 Mindfulness, trauma, ACOG's policy on abortion, the physician/patient relationship, final thoughts 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

Here's what you need to know about the current monkeypox outbreak, including how it spreads, how to diagnose and treat, and whether YOU should worry about this in the first place.Here's a good summary in Science. Here's the WHO's information.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/monkeypox/ 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

We now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID "emergency" phase. Here's how (and why) we can live with this coronavirus.Here's an extended Twitter thread outlining the key points we discussed (easy for sharing). And here's every show we've done with UCSF Professor and infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/living-with-covid/Topics & Timecodes00:00 Intro, mask mandates, individual control & benefits of one-way masking05:22 Long COVID, innate vs adaptive immunity, seroprevalence among varying age groups10:27 Vaccine protection against severe COVID, natural immunity, media catastrophizing, animal reservoirs & endemicity15:23 Hepatitis outbreak in children, did pandemic sheltering weaken our kids’ immune responses, masking children & the precautionary principle20:00 Creating an endpoint, the purpose of non-pharmaceutical interventions, hospitalizations with COVID vs. for COVID, death rate as a key metric23:53 Hybrid immunity, Omicron as the great equalizer, CDC messaging & it’s role in terrifying the vaccinated & convincing the unvaccinated that vaccines don’t work31:49 Covaxin vs Sinovac, India vs. China, downstream effects of lockdowns, excess deaths 40:32 Age-based risk stratification, immune response in children, what a “mild” case of Omicron looks like, Paxlovid & other therapeutics46:10 Omicron mutations & why they point to approaching endemicity, public & mental health strategies49:38 The value of holistic treatment, right brain vs. left brain, reductionism, importance of recognizing the many tools we have to combat COVID59:32 What’s next for Monica, why docs suck at talking about risk, final thoughts 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

A longtime hospitalist colleague and mentor shares hospital hacks that improve life for our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves 🔥Dr. John Cunniff, MD, MBA is a 22 year veteran hospital doctor with the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group in practice at Stanford and other local hospitals in the Silicon Valley.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/hospital-hacks/ 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

What has our short-sighted COVID approach cost us? Dr. Makary returns to discuss all the other stuff we're damaging or neglecting. Check out Marty's research site on redesigning healthcare here. And watch all our episodes together here.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-myopia/ 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

Happy #nursesweek to all those on the hero's journey 🙏It's Nurses Week and you know what that means: cold pizza, heroes work here signs and tacky gifts. How about giving nurses what they REALLY need: safe staffing ratios, fair pay, freedom from workplace violence, mental health support and RESPECT. And that means leaders LEADING.To all the nurses: I get it, I hear you and I support you. It turns out we're all on a journey to find our path, our true calling. Whether that means leaving your current role, lobbying for change or introspecting to reframe how you look at the world, the time is now. It's YOUR journey, make it happen. Check out all my nurse advocacy (and parody) videos here.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/nurses-week-2022/ 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

We had Doc Vader frozen in carbonite for good reason, but today MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU cuz he's offfff the chain, uncensored, and LIVE 😂.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-vader-live-5-4-22/ 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

Why isn't everyone awakened and able to realize unfiltered reality? Turns out the mind tosses up apparent roadblocks to enlightenment. Here's how to recognize and overcome them.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-barriers/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 Intro01:38 Unfiltered reality is ALWAYS present, just seemingly obscured04:59 Barrier 1: not knowing awakening is possible17:12 Fear disguising itself as acquisition of knowledge22:00 Barrier 2: doubt and the standing wave of identity/thought44:35 Barrier 3: realizing what is a thought and what isn’t55:49 Advice for overcoming sticky beliefs 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

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