Real Medicine's Podcast
Summary: Dr. Evan Levine, author of "What Your Doctor Won't (or can't ) Tell You " and Matt LoGuercio take a humorous and irreverent look at the problems in our health-not-care system.
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Podcasts:
Evan and Matt discuss how several medications can alter the electrical repolarization of the heart and potentially stop it. Known as acquired prolonged QT syndrome, Dr. Levine illustrates how an elderly woman was killed in a hospital, even as she was on a heart monitor, by the interactions of two medications and the negligence of many. We also discuss many of the drugs that can cause similar QT prolongation induced heart arrhythmias. * Flecainide is unlikely to prolong QTc.
I dedicate this Podcast to my agent and old friend Ron Bard, who left us this weekend. Without Ron's help my book would have never been published. We were two very different people and yet we bonded through our love to make others laugh and our iconoclastic ways of living our life. This show certainly brings back a lot of memories. But the message is clear, allowing big Pharma to advertise their drugs can influence even the news organizations. We need to stop DTC advertising!
Why are your ears, skin, heart, lungs, nose, feet, blood, and even those private parts covered under your health insurance but the "gateway" to your body, your teeth not. Evan and Matt discuss why we're all not smiling!
Cosmo Kramer made a huge mistake going to the vet to cure his cough. In the United States, labs, sonograms, and medications cost far more for pets than for their owners! Matt and Evan discuss in their latest podcast.
Evan and Matt discuss how foreigners are deliberately taking advantage of our generous healthcare system and costing us 4-10 billion dollars each year. Need money to fund that wall, pay for that bridge,or provide affordable care to the rest of us? Listen to this!
In 2013, the FDA, in spite of it's own experts' recommendations not to, approved the first drug without estrogen, for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. For a more detailed review : http://www.leftistreview.com/2014/10/11/brisdelle-new-menopause-drug-or-alchemy/evanlevine/
Dr. Levine and Matt discuss the usual symptoms of an enlarged prostate and question why many physicians prescribe an expensive treatment, Rapaflo, before trying a far less costly, and likely as effective, generic version of Flomax.
