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Gleevec that never win Nobels Political Nobels, Obama, and Bob Dylan skipping the ceremony Academic AI studies that are outdated by publication, plus a Lancet “phase one” chatbot trial with no control arm AI models guessing Trump’s IQ and the case that the voting booth is the health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 bureaucracyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices