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**The Accad and Koka Report**

This is a show for all those who love medicine but have grown weary of this vast boondoggle called the health care system. We produce an episode once a week and we regularly bring in guests that we put on the hot seat. We discuss current topics in medical science, policy, economics, and ethics, always with an eye toward safeguarding the doctor-patient relationship. We bring fresh, provocative insights that resonate with physicians in the trenches who are determined not to let their passion for medicine be ground to a pulp.

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 164 What Has Beauty To Do With Health? Apr 07, 2021

Show notes

Our guests are David Clayton and Charlie Deist, on the topic of the relationship between beauty and health

GUESTS:

David Clayton: Website and Twitter

Charlie Deist: Website and Twitter

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Ep. 163 Accad ❤ Koka Mar 11, 2021

Show notes

Dr. Accad interviews Dr. Koka regarding his latest article entitled "Correlative Adventures with COVID"

LINKS:

Anish Koka: "Correlative Adventures with COVID"
Anish Koka: "In Defense of Small Data"
Anish Koka: "The Price of Progress"
Michel Accad: "The Devolution of Evidence-Based Medicine"
Michel Accad: "Why N-of-1 is Enough"

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Ep. 162 A Libertarian’s Case For Lockdowns, with Chris Snowdon Mar 02, 2021

Show notes

Our guest is Christopher Snowdon, a freelance journalist with a focus on the intrusion of public health into the daily lives of ordinary people. He is the author of many books, including Velvet Glove; Iron Fist, A History of Anti-smoking, published in 2009, and more recently, Polemics, an anthology of articles on economics, politics, science, and culture. He is also Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute for Economic Affairs in London. We discuss his position on lockdowns which has surprised many and put him at odds with other libertarians.

GUEST:

Chris Snowdon Twitter and Website

LINKS:

"The Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks" (article in Quilette)
"The Great Lockdown Debate: Chris Snowdon v. Toby Young" (YouTube on talkRadio channel)

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Ep. 161 Hormetics: A Principle of Health and Fitness, with Charlie Deist Feb 24, 2021

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Our guest is Charlie Deist, author of Hormetics: Physical Fitness for Free People. We have an engaging and somewhat philosophical conversation on principles of health. How do we identify good nutritional and exercise habits? Amongst the myriad of fads, what rules should guide one's health choices and behaviors?

GUEST:

Charlie Deist: Website and Twitter

LINK:

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Charlie Deist. Hormetics:Physical Fitness for Free People (on Amazon)

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Ep. 160 Elise Amez-Droz: Those Treacherous “Essential” and “Non-essential” Labels Feb 14, 2021

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Our guest is Elise Amez-Droz, program manager for the Open Health program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she also manages the health policy portfolio. Ms. Amez-Droz is a Public Policy Fellow with The Fund for American Studies and a member of the Millennial Cohort of American Enterprise Institute’s Leadership Network.

GUEST:

Elise Amez-Droz: LinkedIn

LINKS:

"Labeling Us 'Essential' or 'Non-Essential' Makes Us Less Human" (Discourse Magazine)
The Mercatus Center website

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Ep. 21 Inside the Swiss Healthcare System (with guest Marc Fouradoulas, MD)

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Ep. 159 Terence Kealey on the Myths of Public Funding of Science Jan 30, 2021

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Our guest today is Terence Kealey, Professor Emeritus of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as Vice Chancellor until 2014. He is also a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. Professor Kealey trained in medicine at Bart’s Hospital in London and obtained his doctorate at Oxford University following which he pursued a career in clinical biochemistry research, before joining the faculty at Buckingham University.

He is the author of 3 books. The first, published in 1996 and titled The Economic Laws of Scientific Research is a sweeping exploration of the relationship between government and science and argues against public funding of scientific research. The second, Science, Sex, and Profits, published in 2008, continues the same theme and develops the notion that science is not a public good but is organized around what he terms “invisible colleges.” His third book, Breakfast is Your Most Dangerous Meal, was published in 2014 and links government intervention to very unhealthy nutritional advice.

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Ep. 158 Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner: A Fighter’s Life Under Lockdown Jan 27, 2021

Show notes

Our guest is Alycia Baumgardner, a professional super feather boxer based in Michigan. She joins us to share her professional and personal experience with the lockdown measures instituted in response to the COVID-10 pandemic.

GUEST:

Alycia "The Bomb" Baumgardner: Twitter and Facebook

LINKS:

Video: "Baddest Woman in Boxing Alycia Baumgardner!"

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Ep. 157 Stephen Senn: N-of-1 Trials and Beyond Nov 29, 2020

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Our guest is Professor Stephen Senn, a world renowned statistician whose career has spanned the gamut of activities that involves statistical analysis in medicine, from teaching to research to consultancy. Professor Senn obtained his PhD in Statistics from the University of Dundee and became a Chartered Statistician from the Royal Statistical Society in 1993. He has held professorships at University College London and at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of several books, notably Statistical Issues in Drug Development and Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk, and Health.

GUEST:

Stephen Senn, PhD: Twitter and Website

LINKS:

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Wood FA, et al. N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side-Effects (Open Access in New Engl J Med)
Araujo, A Julious S, Senn S. Understanding variation in sets of N-of-1 trials (Open Access in PLOS One)
Senn S. Statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine (Open Access in Nature)
Senn S. Mastering Variation: Variance components and personalized medicine (Open Access in Stat in Med)
Stephen Senn. Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk, and Health (Amazon link)

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Ep. 156 The Push for Nurse Practitioners on the Frontlines of Healthcare Nov 13, 2020

Show notes

Our guests are Rebekah Bernard, MD and Niran Al-Agba, MD, authors of a soon-to-be-published book examining the rise of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in healthcare.

Dr. Bernard is a family physician from Fort Myers, Florida. She is board member of Physicians for Patient Protection, an organization calling for more transparency regarding the difference in training between physicians and non-physician providers.

Dr. Al-Agba is a board-certified pediatrician in private practice in Washington State. She is a prolific writer who speaks widely and openly on a variety of issues, including policy, ethics, and medical practice.

GUESTS:

Rebekah Bernard: Twitter and website

Niran Al-Agba: Twitter and website

LINKS:

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Niran Al-Agba and Rebekah Bernard: Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare (Amazon link and book website)

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Ep. 155 Kevin McKernan on PCR testing for COVID-19 Nov 07, 2020

Show notes

Our guest is Kevin McKernan, founder and chief scientific officer of Medicinal Genomics, a company specialized in genetic testing of medicinal plants, including cannabis for strains, traits, and pest infestation, including plant viruses. He is here to shed light on the process of PCR testing as applied to the COVID pandemic.

GUEST:

Kevin McKernan: Twitter

LINKS:

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Jaafar R. et al. "Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates" (Open access in Clinical Infectious Diseases)

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