Episode 038: Changing the World Outside the Clinic

Doctors enjoy, for better or worse, and elevated social status.  How can they use that high regard, as well as their knowledge, to change the world when they're not in the clinic?
In this episode, Alison Pletch, Zeynep Demir, Eric Wilson, and Alison Seline brainstorm some avenues from politics to journalism that docs explore when they have the itch to change the world.

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• Working Mom Arrested for Letting Her 9-Year-Old Play Alone at Park and This Widow's 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home Alone
• Israel-Gaza conflict: Doctor Mads Gilbert evokes conditions in a Gaza hospital
• A Day in the Life of a Successful Nurse Writer
• Four Ways Katie Couric Stacked The Deck Against Gardasil
• Agriculture and Health Policies Intro
• Physicians of the 113th Congress
• UIHC spinout seeks to reduce blindness

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Episode 037: Junk Science

Junk science dominates our thoughts in this episode, our first recording in front of a live studio audience (the Introduction to Medical Education at Iowa students who were kind enough to join us).  Cole Cheney, Alison Pletch, Keenan Laraway, and Eric Wilson talked about Dr. Mehmet Oz's recent troubles, including a New York M3 who asked the AMA and the NY Medical Association to step in.  Also, Cole drops some new research knowledge on us about why pot makes people paranoid (hint--having a researcher stand over you asking you if you're paranoid might be another known cause of paranoia), and The Egyptian Army says it has cured HIV and hepatitis, or so they claim, using a simple point and shoot device that detects AND purifies the blood.   But it needs a leeeeetle more testing...

• AIDS-curing device needs more testing, Egypt's army says
• Meet the medical student who wants to bring down Dr. Oz
• Physician Sounds Alarm On Illegal Drugs Sold On Amazon

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