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The Rich Zeoli Show

Dr. Marty Makary: “The Salem Peanut Trial”

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Marty Makary—Surgeon and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his new book, “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health.” Dr. Makary summarizes one of the most fascinating chapters of the book—“The Salem Peanut Trial” where he explains: “Deaths from peanut allergies are real, and living with the problem can be terrifying. Compounding the tragedy is knowing that America’s epidemic of peanut allergies is a largely avoidable consequence of our policy of peanut abstinence.” A summarized version of the chapter is featured in The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/health/how-pediatricians-created-the-peanut-allergy-epidemic-952831c4?mod=us-news_lead_story. PLUS, Dr. Makary weighs-in on Rich’s potential lice diagnosis. Good news: Rich is going to survive! You can find Dr. Makary’s new book here: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spots-Medicine-Wrong-Health/dp/1639735313

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0:00.0

Dr. Marty McCarrey, you've heard him on the show before, he's a New York Times best-selling

0:04.7

author of the price we pay, his new book, Blind Spots, When Medicine Gets It Wrong and

0:11.0

what it means for our health.

0:13.5

Dr McCarrey, welcome back to the show.

0:15.4

It's great to have you.

0:16.8

Good to be back.

0:17.8

Thanks, Rich.

0:18.9

Yeah, no, listen, first of all, I gotta tell you off the record,

0:21.9

I'm home today, my home studio studio because my kids have lice. Any advice?

0:27.8

There is a good protocol for lice but it's a lot more common than people think.

0:34.5

Okay so I'm gonna I'm not gonna die or anything right you're gonna live okay that's great news thank you very much you

0:39.7

you've you've reassured me we went through a pandemic you were one of the most

0:45.5

outspoken people about common sense during the pandemic and thank god for you and

0:51.6

thank god for this new book.

0:53.0

What led you to write this book,

0:55.1

your latest book, Blind Spots?

0:57.4

Well, the pandemic was a little peak

0:59.4

into how our medical leadership works in modern medicine.

1:04.3

And I didn't write about COVID in the book,

1:06.6

hardly at all, because people are sick of it,

1:08.9

and it's become pretty tribal.

1:10.9

But if you look at the arrogance, the group think on so many other common

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