11. Masks, Race, and Authenticity with ZDoggMD

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our guest today is Dr. Zubin Damania (aka</span> <a href="https://zdoggmd.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">ZDoggMD</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">), an internist, hospitalist, and healthcare evangelist. ZDogg is dedicated to turning the practice of medicine into the healing art that it should be, rather than the leviathan of bureaucracy, roadblocks, and nonsense that it sometimes seems to be. In this episode we cover:  the morality of masks and not wearing them in public, racism, suspension of the scientific method in the early phases of the pandemic, Star Wars, and much more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We discuss:</span></p> <div style="margin-left: 2em;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The RECOVERY Trial which found that steroids reduced mortality in certain COVID patients [02:10];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The optimal way to introduce Star Wars to someone who has never seen an episode [07:50];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How ZDogg prepares for the flow state of an unscripted live show or polemic [12:30];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why wearing a mask in public during the COVID pandemic is like paying taxes [17:50];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Virtue signalling [23:00];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The time when Rob was most proud to be ZDogg’s friend [23:55];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9YKP6rZJA"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pandemic & Protest: Racism As A Social Determinant Of Health</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">[23:55];</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fundamental unfairness when judged on something that you cannot control [28:30];</span></li> <li style=