Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.

Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,

and you're listening to Season 3. On this week's episode, he's been called on Twitter

a bunch of names recently, a Big Mac researcher, a comedian cardiologist,

and guilty of Twitter ambushes. That's right, none other than Prof. Daryl Francis. Daryl Francis

from Imperial College London, he's here via Zoom to talk about recent developments in cardiology,

COVID and the heart, and the magical, mystical Vasepa.

You won't want to miss this discussion.

And first, I have a monologue where I talk about a few topics.

You won't want to miss it.

So stay tuned.

This is a great episode with Daryl Francis.

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First up, I came across a tweet recently, which caught my attention.

This was by a gentleman who practices in India, and it's about a lecture they received from a U.S.

oncologist.

And here's what it was about, multiple myeloma, a cancer that many of the listeners here will know how to treat. And here's what one of the people who treat multiple

myeloma say, this is their treatment strategy. It's broken out how I treat high-risk

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