Stifling Physician Voices, Politicized Journalism, German Kids Study, Policy Solutions

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we dive into some emails Dr. Z received about hospital COVID policies and medical education (and how our leaders are screwing up), the problem with mandates in healthcare, and strongly negative feedback for us from a critical care nurse on the front lines about our vaccine messaging. In the news, we react to NPR’s piece saying Trump voters more likely to die of COVID, what is the nature of “misinformation” on both sides of the political spectrum, the challenges of quantitative journalism, the German study on kids and COVID risk, Pfizer omicron booster press release and surrogate endpoints, and Vinay’s policy proposals to make the COVID mess better. Here's all our other shows featuring VP. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're back. You're listening to the VPZD show. I'm Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor here at UCSF
0:05.1	And I'm joined by my friend and colleague Zee Dog, Zubin Demania. Zubin, it's great to hear from you
0:10.2	Dude brother, they call me Zee Dog in Canada, which is 30% more cool
0:16.0	Dude, I look forward to this all week, man. Is that bad? Is that a bad sign on my mental state that I just want to talk to you?
0:22.2	Yeah, I think it's a warning sign if you want to talk to me. Yeah, it's a warning sign
0:26.1	It's a cry for help some would say a cry for help
0:28.8	But you know, I look forward to it too, my friend because you know, we have a good conversation and what is this life but
0:35.2	Conversations with friends and colleagues. I mean isn't that what makes life
0:38.5	Life so great
0:40.0	Ultimately it is and it seems like some of our audience actually agrees they really like sitting in they really like the thing
0:44.6	We did with Marty, but what is it interesting is like you know again 95% positive feedback, but then you get those critical
0:52.0	Bits some of them are just you know noise from people that are triggered by whatever it is we said whether we you know
0:57.3	They feel like we're making fun of pronouns or something when Marty said he his pronouns were unboosted male
1:03.1	Or whether something more significant. So I thought you know, maybe we should kick this off
1:07.0	I got two emails from health care professionals one kind of really more aligned with what we've been talking about and the other really quite
1:14.9	Upset with us. Should I can I can I can I hit you with some of these? I love to hear it
1:19.0	I haven't heard it before and I so I you get my you get my unfiltered reaction. Let's do it perfect
1:25.3	Let's do the first one which is a little more aligned with kind of what we've been saying
1:28.4	Feedback sandwich. I like a feedback sandwich. Give me the bread first before you give me the crap. Okay, I got it
1:33.3	I give you the bread and it's an Oreo. It's all the sweetness inside
1:37.9	But then I'm gonna give you that nasty brown cookie on the black cookie. I love the Oreo cookie. You don't love that cookie get out of here
1:44.4	Yeah, get out. I love all cookies. Let's not let's not lie to ourselves. All right, so I get a message
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