There’s a subtle awareness that we all know, and it’s not really something you can put your finger on, show an image to someone or use words to convey but it’s always here nonetheless. If you are interested in being in touch with that awareness this is a good podcast to listen to. ZDogg and his guests try to explain ways to help you expand your awareness. It’s like when you start realizing you are about to react to something but there’s a space in time before you react. You start noticing that reacting isn’t always the best option, and that responding is different than reacting. It’s not just something medical personnel benefit from, awareness is probably the most important thing we can give other. It’s beyond language but words can point to it. Listen with an open mind and heart.

It’s so great to have his wisdom and enthusiastic analysis of this experience at our neurons

I just recently discovered this channel whilst following my nose in search of more Donald Hoffman content, and fell in LOVE. Highly recommend. 🙌🏼

I started listening during COVID. I loved his thoughtful alt-middle perspective on masking, vaccines, etc. Now, I’m really digging his mindfulness focus. I also enjoy Doc Vader. Follow your bliss, ZDogg!

I love this show. Today’s show talks about medicine and COVID masks which I love.

This show introduced me to a community of podcasts that are comprised of some of the best personalities, knowledge, and insight that consistently educates me while also restoring my faith in humanity. Between this show, ZPVD and sensible medicine, I have so much content to draw from in my own journey in medicine. Do yourself a favor and listen to these podcasts

I picked two stars because the two star column is running behind four, three and one. Like Jonathan Swift’s floating island of Laputa the podcast is floating beyond the down-to-earth reality of healthcare workers and instead pursues abstract knowledge. Self-actualization doesn’t mean anything to people worried about safety and basic needs. We want a street brawler not a shaman. We really need both in our lives but it takes having one to make room for the other.

I have enjoyed your Podcast for about 2 1/2 years. Your medical information was invaluable and so clearly explained. Also have enjoyed your guests! Your Podcasts were truly the only alt-middle place I found for reasonable medical information. Lately you have gone into an area that already permeates the Podcast world and I will no longer be listening. You will be missed. As I never was a paying listener, you won’t miss me ; ) I just ‘can’t’ anymore with this already too accessible Woo. Thanks for the memories! ~S~

I really like the doc’s sense of humor and his musical ability, but I’m not sure about all this existential stuff…. I feel like the more he delves into awakening and other such Buddhist concepts, the more out of touch he becomes with his target audience. I almost feel like those shows on consciousness should be in a separate podcast.

I began listening to his podcast during the pandemic and enjoyed his interviews with medical professionals. Unfortunately, this past year it’s become all New Age, all the time. Please return to solid medical information.

Pushing vaccinations still? After all the contradictory evidence showing the ineffectiveness and damage caused by injection of experimental gene therapies?He’s lost.

Z was a hero of the alt-middle. But he has clearly been bought off and to cover it, he has descended into the realm of magic thinking where everything is rainbows and butterflies.

Zubin Damania, MD has been a voice of reason for years. He is well-connected, highly educated, and gets great, credible guests on his show. As a family physician in private practice , I have found myself reiterating or paraphrasing the ZDogg show daily! His popularity rose exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the importance of his message has grown as he has progressed through his own awakening! Despite the often serious issues he confronts, he never forgets to toss in a good dose of humor and the sometimes more than occasional F-bomb!! Highly recommend!!!!!

Health 3.0 the future gave me so much hope Clearly we were crushed by the system nothing will change and are now having to be coached into a sense of predestined uncontrollable state. There is no longer any health care coverage all meditation mind altered gobble guck. I left my review below from when I believed greatly in the mission and financially supported the goals. If we lost we lost just tell us we are big boys and girls we don’t need to shatter into the universe to take an L ************************************************** Yes! that's right the future of healthcare. A health system developed by the front lines and not lawyers and doctorates of nursing that have never worked the floor. The voices of the people without politically correct spin.

I began listening to Dr. Damania in the early months of COVID and became quite a fan. He made sense, he was a reasonable middle in his views, and he definitely had sharp ideas when describing issues with our healthcare system…Until other highly qualified physicians expressed views not exactly in line with Damania’s. He lambasted them all with equal ferocity, no matter if the conversation required analysis of statements made by RFK Junior, or Dr. Malone, or Dr. McCullough, or Dr. Bhattacharya. No contradictory data was cited. The only vaccine expert worth listening to was Dr. Offitt, the vaccine developer who literally insisted multiple times on Damania’s show that all children must be vaccinated, all, regardless of any variables. The “reviews” of diverging opinions became just that - a pedestrian rant full of swearing and more swearing. So much for deeper meaning and spiritual awakening, promoted by Damania in other episodes. Good bye, Dr. Dogg. Zdogg..DoggZ

Long time listener and fan of ZDoggMD and his work, so glad he brought Doc Vader back! I love how candid and uninhibited DocVader is! Thank you for the honesty and the laughs

ZDogg has some very interesting insights about various things, but when it comes to masks I have no idea why he sounds like a broken record. It’s like he’s not humble enough to admit he was wrong, and that on certain issues there is just no “middle ground”. I work in a hospital. We wear masks and eye protection when our patients have colds, flus, RSV, covid, and other respiratory illnesses, and despite being coughed, sneezed and vomited on, masks have prevented me from getting sick. Masks work, not perfectly, but they work.

I have been a long time listener/fan of ZDoggMD and I have loved every episode. What the show has evolved to has been incredibly helpful to my own professional, personal growth and healing.

Easy to listen to. Gives good information but should have the people he trashes on his podcast to have discussions rather than dismiss them

Challenges the status quo using science, humor, and a quick wit. Some of my long held beliefs have been supported, while others have been changed - that’s what I’m looking for when it comes to a podcast in this arena.

Close your eyes, take a breath, and have a listen. I always learn something, smile a lot, and sometimes just burst out laughing. Great guests, content, and attention to technical detail. Thanks Z!

I fell hook line and sinker for this clown and everything he spouts on this stupid channel. I got hooked on this show from the Donald Huffman interview. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice? Don’t trust a single word coming out of this guy’s speaking hole. Everything is calculated and measured to make an absolute fool of you. Everything he claimed about Covid is crap. This guy is not a Doctor or Scientist of any kind. He is best suited to be a circus clown. All this spiritual stuff he claims are pulled right out of his behind. Total fraud, feeding crap to unsuspecting people.

I consider all ZDoggMD’s content a must listen. Thanks!

Really love the idea of trying to find a synthesis. definitely think that over the last two years, the rhetoric on all sides has become extremely. I also enjoy the guests. recommend the discussion on the nature of reality with Mr. Hoffman

Excellent

A reason of voice and expertise during a time where misinformation is at an all time high. Thank you!!!!!!!

Every podcast is filled with fun, facts and thought provoking ideas about life and eternity. Have listened since Covid began.

I have been listening to this guy since he was making the most ridiculous music videos that only someone in healthcare would fully understand. In the beginning it felt like being in a secret society. It was great comic relief while informative. I did not truly understand the key difference between compassion and empathy until he explained it in a way that forever changed how I conducted myself with patients. I have been a massive fan and will always share these shows with friends and family alike because we are no longer in a secret society. The healthcare system involves EVERYONE and these shows are so well made that a healthcare muggle can understand them. Thank you Dr. Zubin for dedicating your time and energy to the cause of healthcare 3.0.

I found Z right before the pandemic hit, at the time I found his videos interesting and was enjoying it then Covid hit and as a healthcare worker I felt lost and his content was so relatable. 3 years later I’m still here and love the content and that Z admits when he is wrong and is open minded the true alt middle love it!

Dr Z never disappoints. Passionate, rational, alt middle.

Love the alt middle views.

As a Registered Nurse who yearns for logical conversation, not persuaded by political affiliation or virtue signaling, this show nails it. These guys are funny, well informed, and willing to challenge the main stream narrative. As a native Oregonian and political Independent, it is refreshing to hear from medical professionals who represent the “alt-middle” view and who are willing to have a nuanced conversation. Please keep the episodes coming! The show helps keep me sane in what feels like the twilight zone of Portland Progressivism.

LOVED Dr. West, can’t wait to hear more from her in future episodes.

This doctor acts like a clown.

Doc Vader was a brilliant way to address the topic of abortion

A highly trained medical doctored turned amazing science communicator for all. Probably one of the funniest, most interesting people to listen to. Bonus you learn a lot because he’s a great teacher. Love you, Z!

Great show! Common sense is so refreshing!! Just listened to your Live show- you’re from Clovis! I’m a nurse at Clovis Community Hospital NICU 👏👏🙌🙌

I have been a speech language pathologist for 30 years. In the fall of 2019 I quit my job in acute care and inpatient rehab to work in long term care. I really loved it and then COVID happened. It has been the worst two years of my career. I am also a board member of our local Bridges Out of Poverty. Someone said we’re all in the same storm but we aren’t in the same boat. That’s so true! Thank you for acknowledging and addressing this in your podcasts!! Now I am seeing some of the best workers being fired because they refuse to get the vaccine. In a world where we are already dangerously short staffed they do this?! I had COVID last year and wasn’t going to get the vaccine but your way of laying out the information and facts convinced me to get one dose. I would not have gotten the second dose but I didn’t want to lose my job. I love your podcasts and how you understand human behaviors. We are more alike than different if we could come together and stop letting politics and media tear us apart.

I used to enjoy your show. What happen to discussing medicine outside of the pandemic. If you want to be a political pod cast than switch to that 100%. Your bashing of others has just gotten old.

There is some good information in these programs. However, he joins the chorus of cancel culture defamation voices against any doctors who speak contrary to the prescribed narrative or ask for real science dialogue and debate. He adds enough of a mix of his own contrary view to the narrative to try and deflect this accusation. However spend some time listening and one quickly finds only those who agree with him avoid his belittling.

Thank you for the excellent insights and your courage in tackling the pressing issues of the day head on. Plus, somehow, when I hear your shows, I imagine that we are back in residency again, hanging out in a call room somewhere philosophizing on the big issues of life and medicine. I miss those days (except for Q3 call of course). You’re the man, keep the content rolling please.

I’m a nurse practitioner and I’m “burned out” and pondering leaving healthcare. I just don’t know what else I would do. I have been listening for awhile, and I don’t always agree with everything 100% but I always find each episode thought provoking and usually hear unique ideas and perspective. Thank you for what you do, Dr. Z!

Very informative and well balanced while being fun and interesting!

Thank you for being open and honest with your views on all topics. I’m a part of the alt-middle and appreciate all of your work and thought provoking episodes on health, politics and spiritual growth. Thank you!

So sad that people turn so fast. Please keep being the amazing doctor We all know. And send love to your family also.

Dr Z is unique—a straight shooter with wisdom and compassion to spare. It’s a very rare combination. Usually you get straight talk with anger and bitterness. Or wisdom and compassion with hesitancy and simpering. Not Dr Z. Not only would I trust him as my doctor, I would love to have a beer with him and talk about meditation and Awakening, kindness and right action.

In a world that doesn’t make sense, Zdog does. I love the practical real conversations. Thinking for yourself is such a novel concept.

I’ve been converted to the Alt Middle and I’m never going back. As a medical provider, mother, athlete, human- I just love Dr Damania’s take on life. He’s a trusted, brilliant and hilarious source of information.

Thank you Dr. Z for once again creating a platform for sharing such unfiltered and accurate information about the true struggles of living in the middle of a pandemic and todays healthcare system. I actually direct my patients and colleagues/ staff to listen to your podcasts and videos to help them make an informed decision. Keep up the good work!

This episode is PACKED with so much great and useful information. Who knew impostor syndrome was a thing? I total have been living with that all my life. Now that I know, I can move beyond and get out of my own way! Thank you!