About this episode

The episode discusses various health topics including drug pricing, media biases, and medical education, featuring guest Marty Makary and his new book.

The three horseman of the apocalypse are BACK! We talk Marty’s new book, CVS as a PBM and the effect on independent community pharmacies, Biden’s medicare drug price negotiations, media health reporting biases, COVID and testing rules, Paxlovid efficacy, the media and lab leak theory, garbage research and health equity, lab leak vs. wet market, medical education is broken and what to do about it, why the med school curriculum is crap, how to fix medical conferences, why debate in medicine is now taboo, ABMS and medical board exam monopoly, culture of obedience in medicine, and more! Here's a sneak peek of Marty Makary's new book BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health (now available for pre-order). Subscribe to The VPZD Show on your favorite podcast app. Check out VP's Substack Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts as well as Sensible Medicine. Here's all our previous episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Drs. Vinay Prasad, Zubin Damania

Guest: Marty Makary

Topics covered

• drug pricing
• health news
• medical education
• COVID-19
• health equity
• media bias
• pharmacy

Keywords

• drug pricing
• COVID-19
• health equity
• medical education
• media bias
• Paxlovid
• lab leak theory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CVS, ABMS

Books & works: BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health

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