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Podcast: The ZDoggMD Show
Episode: Don't Believe The Healthcare Hype (w/Dr. Nina Shapiro)
Description: How can patients and caregivers cut through exaggerated claims, ignore bad advice, and tell what's real and what's not on the internet? Dr. Nina Shapiro, UCLA Professor of Head and Neck Surgery, pediatric ENT specialist, and author of "Hype" teaches us during this LIVE show!
We talk about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, being a surgeon and writing a book during OR room turnover time, how doctors use Google, what's up with those "Best Doctor" publications, predatory journals, medical cocaine, the merits and detriments of appearing on The Doctors, teaching patients vs. teaching healthcare professionals, advice from a pediatric ENT to referring...