Healthcare Unfiltered

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Episode 58: The Diet and Cholesterol Debate With Dave Feldman and Ethan Weiss Nov 23, 2021

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Chadi re-invites Dave Feldman (@DaveKeto), senior software engineer and entrepreneur, and Ethan Weiss (@ethanjweiss), MD, cardiologist at UC San Francisco, to rehash a Twitter argument on secondary prevention for heart attacks for patients with high LDL. Should patients receive statins or should they not? What does the data show and where is the controversy, if any? How does diet play a role? What about the infamous KETO diet? The guests discuss a couple of realistic hypothetical scenarios with different LDL receptor and metabolism variables. Dave shares an IRB-approved trial that he is leading to better understand high LDL that emerges from Keto and its impact on cardiac atherosclerotic disease. This was a high-spirited debate where the host said so little and the guests were arguing respectfully about various views. Will there be a common ground? You must listen to find out.Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 57: A Journey Through Lung Cancer History With Govindan Ramaswamy Nov 16, 2021

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Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, Anheuser Busch Endowed Chair in Medical Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, provides the condensed oral history of thoracic oncology – dating from the late 1990s to the present day. Chadi and Dr. Govindan discuss how stage III chemoradiation and PET scans were new strategies before the turn of the century, the introduction of gefitinib as a pivotal moment in the treatment paradigm, the doors opening for EGFR inhibitors, the discovery of ALK as a targetable mutation, how genome sequencing in the 2010s opened additional targets, PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibition, and so much more.Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 56: Committed: The Trials and Tribulations of Psychiatry Training Nov 09, 2021

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Adam Stern (@AdamPhilipStern), MD, neuropsychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, joins the show to discuss his book “Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training” and the struggles that psychiatry trainees face today. Dr. Stern hits on an unexpected diagnosis he was given three years ago, dealing with imposter syndrome, the cruelty of survival rates when given to individual patients, anecdotes in the book that highlight the nuances of psychiatry training, the need for human connection while practicing, advice for coming out of training successfully, and so much more in this invigorating conversation.Order Dr. Stern’s book “Committed.”https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/committed/9780358434733Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 55: Blockchain and Decentralized Data: The Future of Healthcare Nov 02, 2021

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Leah Houston (@LeahHoustonMD), MD, an emergency physician and founder of HPEC (@HPECid) as well as Evercred, explains blockchain as a decentralizer of physician and patient data and how it will be applied ubiquitously across the healthcare system. Dr. Houston shares and makes the case for how blockchain stores medical data and keeps the ownership in the hands of physicians, offers a solution to issuing and maintaining digital credentials for healthcare professionals, and highlights how physician interest and involvement are crucial to “reclaiming ownership of the profession and our individual identities.”Visit the HPEC website to receive your invitation.https://www.hpec.io/Visit Dr. Houston’s Evercred website.https://www.evercred.com/Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 54: The Theranos Debacle With Ben Mazer Oct 26, 2021

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Ben Mazer (@BenMazer), MD, anatomic and clinical pathologist at Yale New Haven Hospital, joins Chadi to recap the rise and fall of the now infamous Theranos – a private lifestyle and healthcare startup company that claimed to have innovative, revolutionary blood testing technology that was ultimately proven ineffective. Dr. Mazer explains how Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the company, allegedly engaged in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors, and patients. Fast forward to the present day and the Theranos trial is well underway. This episode provides all of the background information and context as the trial continues to unfold. You won’t want to miss it.Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 53: American Healthcare: A Hot Mess Oct 19, 2021

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Marion Mass (@mass_marion), MD, practicing pediatrician and co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, joins the show to share her unique ideas about how to reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously improving access to care. She describes her “sentinel moment” in which she realized that physicians are no longer the primary medical advocates for their patients and how this led her to founding a grassroots physician organization dedicated to patient advocacy. The conversation takes interesting turns into hospital fines for price transparency, patient copays and premiums, Medicare, direct primary care, pharmacy benefit managers, and so much more.Read the Practicing Physicians of America’s position paper on their discussed legislative requests.https://www.physiciansforreform.org/files/5015/5406/4369/Reducing_Cost_and_Waste_in_American_Medicine.pdfCheck out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 52: The Medical Crisis in Lebanon: Is There a Solution? Oct 12, 2021

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Fadlo Khouri (@DrFadloKhuri), MD, hematologist and medical oncologist, and president of the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), is asked to join the show after a recent announcement from the University regarding a fuel shortage at its hospital. Dr. Khouri explains how Lebanon’s economic downturn is affecting hospitals – from the inability to supply hospitals with air conditioning to cancer therapies. He also gives a glimpse of a day in the life of the AUB president, how he approaches politics as a University president in the Middle East, the state of affairs of the University, and how the faculty and student body has changed and continues to change to this day.Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 51: Diet, Exercise, and Obesity With Jerry Teixeira Oct 05, 2021

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Keeping up with the dietary theme in recent episodes, Chadi hosts Jerry Teixeira (@jerryteixeira), a strength and conditioning expert. He begins with a personal anecdote on how changing his eating habits along with continued regular exercise was necessary to losing weight, divulges exactly what goes into his low-carb diet, shares how alcohol and dessert consumption factors into the diet, explains the benefits of training your muscles to reach temporary muscle failure, breaks down the correlation between strength training and life longevity, and gets into more specifics on his idea of a healthy, sustainable, efficient lifestyle.Visit Jerry’s website for more information on his strength training ideas. https://bodyweightstrength.fit/Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 50: Reverse Engineering the Mystery of Cholesterol With Dave Feldman Sep 28, 2021

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Chadi is joined by Dave Feldman (@DaveKeto), senior software engineer and entrepreneur, who shares his counterintuitive experience with the ketogenic diet in 2015 and a healthy obsession with the study of lipids and cholesterol that led him to the founding of the “energy model.” Dave breaks down the scientific details of fat cell breakdown in the body, how this process translates in blood tests, and how the “energy model” can be used to elevate one’s health and consumption habits, among a host of other intriguing topics.View Dave’s website to learn more about the “energy model.” https://cholesterolcode.com/Visit the Citizen Science Foundation website to learn about the lean mass hyper-responder study. https://citizensciencefoundation.org/Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Episode 49: Debating the Single Payer Model and FDA Regulatory Processes Sep 21, 2021

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In a long overdue appearance, Saurabh Jha (@RogueRad), MD, radiologist in Philadelphia, makes his triumphant return to the show to pick apart the single payer model idea as well as FDA regulatory processes, this time with a worthy adversary: Adam Gaffney (@awgaffney), MD, MPH, pulmonary specialist and health policy researcher at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School. The conversation begins with discussion of a proposed federal single payer system in America, why it could not be modeled after a successful system like that in England, why significant health disparities exist geographically within a single payer system and whether such a system can provide the tools to address these disparities, and so much more. Then, the conversation swings to whether a health care system should be designed to afford high priced novel therapies because of failure to regulate these prices, on what basis the FDA should approve drugs, and other points of discussion. Things get testy in this spirited back-and-forth banter and you won’t want to miss it.Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

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