Our Pandemic Story with Dr Abraham Verghese

 

"Stories are how we make sense of the world."

Dr. Abraham Verghese wrote one of my all-time favorite novels: Cutting for Stone.  Not only is Dr. Verghese a novelist, but also a practicing physician and Stanford Professor of Medicine.   

Here he talks with Dr Zubin Damania (aka ZDoggMD) about The Power of Story and the current pandemic, and why it matters.  

Do yourself a favor and recharge with this wonderful hour of hopeful, inspiring, thoughtful conversation about how pandemics transform society.    You won't regret it!

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Transcript, audio podcast, and links.

Listen to a previous ZDogg interview with Dr Verghese.  

Why You Ain't Getting a Covid-19 Vaccine in Time

Dr. Zubin Damania, (aka ZDoggMD and Doc Vader--and yes, he's a real doctor) explains why we'll be waiting a while for a Covid-19 vaccine ...  It's a serious discussion on why we can't expect a quick fix and why getting a vaccine right doesn't happen overnight.  

You may know him from the ZDogg rapper medical music videos or the Doc Vader videos, expressing the dark side of medicine and the American health care system.  He channels anger into humor in the hopes of making a better world. He also has a serious side where he does these educational videos about health care topics in plain language.  He also offers serious programs and discussions where physicians can get CME credits, too.  

• Who is ZDoggMD?   Dr. Zubin Damania leads a passionate tribe of healthcare professionals towards a vision of Health 3.0, with in-depth conversations with medical thought leaders, merciless and uncensored satire, and takedowns of pseudoscientific nonsense spread by celebrities in the lay media. ZDoggMD Industries is the digital production studio behind Incident Report LIVE, the Interweb’s #1 medical news and entertainment show.

• Zubin Damania is an American physician, comedian, Internet personality, musician, and the founder of Turntable Health, a direct primary care clinic in Downtown Las Vegas that was funded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Before moving to Las Vegas, Damania was a practicing hospitalist at Stanford University for 10 years. Wikipedia