The cost of treating symptoms instead of people

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Informed Dissent with Dr. Jeff Barke – Trust is collapsing. Medical journals take industry money. Newsrooms rely on advertisers. When a physician speaks up, the response can be suppression instead of debate. That is not the mark of a healthy profession. Free inquiry is not optional. It is how we find better treatments and how patients make informed choices...

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0:00.0	Informed dissent, the intersection of healthcare and politics, with Dr. Jeff Barky, board-certified
0:07.7	primary care physician, and Dr. Mark McDonald, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult
0:14.2	psychiatrist. Welcome to informed dissent. Great to be with you.
0:21.2	This is Dr. Jeff Barky, America's Real Doctor.
0:24.2	I've got some exciting updates for you.
0:27.3	I am recording solo.
0:29.2	I know you've been used to hearing my co-host, Dr. Mark McDonald.
0:34.0	However, I am now on my own, and I'm so proud of the work that Mark and I have done.
0:41.8	Mark is headed in a bit of a different direction.
0:44.5	He's doing a lot of traveling, a lot of telehealth work, forensic work that has always been
0:49.8	his passion.
0:51.4	And as a result, oh, I will bring him in as a guest but I am now hosting this show
0:56.9	on my own boy I hope this will be fun for you I know it's going to be really fun for me so a few
1:03.2	things I want to talk to you about first of all I'm changing the strategy first to first of all to, to instead of being the, it's still informed dissent.
1:14.8	So I'm excited about that.
1:16.4	We created this name.
1:18.4	This was actually originally Marx idea, and I love the name informed dissent.
1:22.7	It represents a lot of things that I stand for.
1:26.0	But the intersection of health care and politics,
1:28.9	I'm updating to be the intersection of faith, family, freedom, and health.
1:35.3	Faith, family, freedom, and health.
1:37.0	Those are going to be the topics that I'm going to focus in on.
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