Real Medicine's Podcast

Turn on paid programming on the radio or visit some holistic healer and you're likely to hear some holistic snake oil salesperson touting the risks of yeast allergy and the toxic effects of yeast in your stool. Before you pay through the nose for something that is not likely to help you, listen to this brief podcast and remember: If you get treated for Candida in your stool Then your just a big dumb fool!

Too often I am seeing patients who underwent stress testing that was NOT indicated. Sometimes, for the doctor to obtain approval from an insurance company , the physician lied about the indication. Other patients later underwent unnecessary angiograms and some even a cardiac stent that will provide no benefit to them and possibly put them at great risk. Evan and Matt discuss.

Hypocrites! Columbia Presbyterian appears to covet the affluent , even from foreign nations, and they provide for them special staff and luxurious rooms. In contrast, they declined to continue to accept the same insurance from a man who worked for them for over 40 years, once he retired. Matt and Evan discuss this sickening hypocrisy including a interview with one of these patients. !

If you have hypertension, kidney disease, or heart failure that prescription for any NSAID, too often prescribed by foolish doctors, might hurt or even kill you! Evan and Matt discuss.

In a filing on March, 27th,2016, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney said it needed Norvartis to provide information about a decade's worth of doctor events that the Attorney General claims were shams. It's about time! Now for all the other Pharma companies. Evan and Matt discuss

Duplicitous attorneys are shaking down big Pharma and frightening patients. Matt and Evan discuss.

Sexual misconduct charges a pay for play scheme that involves a top medical center. You won't hear this on the news. A must listen.

A vest marketed to save your life , but still without large randomized trial results, to suggest it works or will not harm you, will cost you or your insurer over $3,000 a month! Find out more with Dr. Evan Levine and Matt LoGuercio.

Why has only New York and California passed the Surprise Bill Law that prevents hospitals and doctors from surprising you with huge bills, especially in emergency rooms, because they do not accept your insurance? In the story I describe, the doctor on call for emergencies did not accept a patient's insurance, even though he worked for the hospital and the hospital was in the patient's network. This resulted in thousands of dollars of excess bills until I notified the patient that as of April 1st, 2015, doctors and hospitals could no longer conduct that heinous type of business. Matt and Evan discuss

You've survived the Emergency Room and now made it up to a floor bed. Can you get out of the hospital alive. Here are some tips to increase your chances. Evan and Matt discuss....

Evan and Matt discuss signs that your doctor is interested in his affluence instead of his patients. Our advice? Run and find another physician.

The real working physicians, the ones that really care for patients and do it honestly and with compassion are underpaid and being abused by insurers, hospitals, patients, and big government! While their leaders are too often profiteers who represent themselves first. Evan and Matt discuss ...

I had one very painful kidney stone and eventually realized that many urologists are too enamored and occupied with their busy and money making procedures to discuss the very simple ways to help reduce recurrent episode$. Dr. Evan Levine and Matt LoGuercio discuss.

One of the saddest ironies, and an insult to our working class,is that only the very rich and the unemployed very poor can afford expensive prescription medications. The rich just pay for it, the poor get it for free, and the rest of us can't afford the co-pays. Many of us are forced to accept a cheaper alternative drug while the poor ,who have Medicaid, get it all for free!

The Emergency Room to your hospital bed: Evan and Matt discuss how to survive the first few moments of your hospital stay and include real life and death stories to illustrate the potential risks you will encounter.