Nobel Prize Snubs, AI Medicine, Brain Death, SSRIs

AI gave Zubin hair in our thumbnail...we truly are at End Times 😁

It's VPZD Ep. 45, originally streamed LIVE on YouTube.

Chronological topic list

Shout out to Dentalica, the Metallica cover band of dentists

Follow up on the failed execution and whether healthcare professionals should take part in executions

Firing squad and livestreamed executions as a case for the state owning its violence

Childhood abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and whether crime is a medical problem or a moral one

A bilingual doctor barred from speaking Spanish to her patient after failing a hospital proficiency test

Nobel Prize snubs in optogenetics, including Ed Boyden, Feng Zhang, and the Wayne State researcher

Rosalind Franklin, narrative, and why credit in science is so messy

Why science is full of forced moves while art is not, and what that means for AI

Clinical breakthroughs like Gleevec that never win Nobels

Political Nobels, Obama, and Bob Dylan skipping the ceremony

Academic AI studies that are outdated by publication, plus a Lancet “phase one” chatbot trial with no control arm

AI models guessing Trump’s IQ and the case that the voting booth is the health check for politicians

Why Zubin doesn’t vote, and the billionaire tax

The seven levels of wealth and the arc from Rolex to no watch

NYU’s three-year medical school and the cherry-picked comparison groups

Zubin’s fourth year of medical school and finishing Berkeley in three years

Reforming medical training from college through the extra fellowship year

Teaching critical thinking over memorization as the line between charlatan and expert blurs

Zeke Emanuel’s Eat Your Ice Cream, reverse causality, and confounding in observational studies

The descriptive versus prescriptive fallacy in medicine and spiritual awakening

Counseling cancer patients about alcohol

SSRIs, RFK Jr., withdrawal, and why long-term data can’t separate benefit from dependence

Brain zaps and SSRIs in awakening circles

Vinay’s accidental decaf month and the nicotine gum trend

Brain death, advance directives, and who you’d trust to pull the plug

Moral anguish, organ and cadaveric nerve consent, and an ICU nurse’s perspective

Airplane rules, annual PPD testing, and the absurdity of medical bureaucracy

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