Biden’s Drug Pricing, Fake Health News, Marty’s Book

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The three horseman of the apocalypse are BACK! We talk Marty’s new book, CVS as a PBM and the effect on independent community pharmacies, Biden’s medicare drug price negotiations, media health reporting biases, COVID and testing rules, Paxlovid efficacy, the media and lab leak theory, garbage research and health equity, lab leak vs. wet market, medical education is broken and what to do about it, why the med school curriculum is crap, how to fix medical conferences, why debate in medicine is now taboo, ABMS and medical board exam monopoly, culture of obedience in medicine, and more! Here's a sneak peek of Marty Makary's new book BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health (now available for pre-order). Subscribe to The VPZD Show on your favorite podcast app. Check out VP's Substack Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts as well as Sensible Medicine. Here's all our previous episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	guys and
0:05.0	guys and non-binary pals welcome back to the VPZD show what are we episode 33 33 that's how old Jesus was when he was crucified really and speaking about crucified
0:10.3	Marty McCary
0:11.3	welcome back speaking of of the Middle Eastern guy, the medic.
0:15.0	The Egyptian magician, as we like to call him here.
0:21.0	Every time we get together and do this,
0:24.5	we laugh before the show for like an hour or two.
0:27.2	And now I think there's nothing else to laugh about.
0:29.3	And then we just keep going.
0:30.4	It doesn't stop.
0:31.4	It doesn't stop.
0:31.7	It can't stop and it won't. But all the best jokes are off air is they are well. Well let's just say that they would get us
0:37.6	You can't even use the word cancelled anymore. It would be like deleted
0:40.7	Deli right? Yeah, it's already been canceled. Yeah, yeah. The three of us have been
0:44.4	Uber cancelled. Now, Zee, tell them about that phone call you just got
0:47.1	while we're waiting to do a show. So we're getting ready to start the show and
0:50.2	my phone blows up and I keep the phone on now because actually I better turn it off now because my kids are financial advisor he's like I'm selling everything I'm like but the market's going up well but you know, science. It was CVS. And I was like, oh, because I have like three missed calls from
1:08.0	CVS. And I'm like, well, what's going on? I haven't been to CVS in forever and the
1:10.9	last time I got a Shingrich shot because I don't want to get herpes on my any parts.
1:15.5	And they...
1:16.5	CVS is my favorite PBM.
1:20.5	Favorite date of all the PBM. F favorite date of all the PBM's that put out a business, local, independent community
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