Best Atlantic Drug Testing Podcasts (2025)

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Over testing in the Hospital 18:48

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15d ago18:48

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We know that at the hospital medical students, residents, and hospitalists dive into a Flexnerian orgy of tests, treatments, and more tests. Is this helpful? We'll go back in time and look at Osler's dream at Hopkins before it became the poster child for Flexnerian medicine.By Andy

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Weight loss drugs: What's the problem with a taking a shot? 19:10

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People are losing weight on the new drugs, but at what cost? First there is the financial cost: we're paying $35 billion a year for these drugs, and don't be fooled, all of us are paying. While insurance pays nothing for nutrition or exercise, it gladly pays for this. And these drugs are untested long term, with some horrific potential side effects…

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The Dangers of Specialty Care: How misplaced incentives lead to high cost and poor outcomes 19:14

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Alan and Andy discuss specialty care and its inherent dangers. We tell about specific patient examples, why excessive specialization seems appealing but results in over-testing and over-treatment, and how we can instantly change policy to mitigate the damage from specialization. Ultimately specialists are paid more to convince people they are sick …

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PSA Screening 13:58

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Alan Roth and Andy Lazris discuss screening for prostate cancer to explain how screening can be less beneficial, and more dangerous, than advertised. Just finding it early doesn't mean you've done yourself a service.By Andy

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The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare 13:58

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The Drug Industry was front and center in the creation of our health care industry. The reforms that created modern healthcare in 1911 and beyond were predicated on developing a research infrastructure in medical schools and in the medical community to generate money for industry. Nothing really has changed. Now the drug companies have control over…

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How to Fix our Messed Up Health Care System: Lower cost = Better health outcomes. 10:24

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In our book, A Return to Healing, we dissect what is wrong with our health care system, and show how you as a patient can better advocate for your own health in a system that often deceives you for profit. But too, we want to fix the system and we explore a feasible solution at the end of the book, one that is simple to achieve and one that would l…

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Apple Cider Vinegar: Why doctors stray away from nutrition 12:19

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In the show Apple Cider Vinegar, the writers create a binary: the good and all-knowing doctors vs the charlatan nutrition gurus. The gap is so wide between the two approaches that the reader is left thinking that in cancer, as in all things medical, doctors always have your best interest in mind and if they thought you should change your diet they'…

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How "Us vs Them" thinking is used to defend the medical system: David Frum and his Atlantic Article. 13:16

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Whether it is in attacking Kennedy, or in refusing to acknowledge what is dysfunctional about Medicare, Democrats use us vs them binary thinking to defend the medical system. By finding easy targets that seem inane, or by inventing those targets by twisting the truth, the defenders of our horrific medical system prop themselves up by posing as the …

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the cholesterol myth. 12:44

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We all believe that cholesterol is so bad that we better measure it regularly and lower it by drugs. Just ask your cardiologist: Got to get that LDL cholesterol below 70 or catastrophe will ensue! But as we explain, this is a myth that germinated back in the 1950's and has been perpetuated and normalized over time. Virtually all doctors believe in …

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Drug Screening 2:07

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Saliva testing is ideal for detecting recent drug use, often within the past 24 to 48 hours. Official Website: https://www.atlanticdrugtesting.com Atlantic Drug Testing Address: 1599 Hamburg Tpke Room 5, Wayne, NJ 07470, United States Phone: +1 800-912-4325 Find Us On Google Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bghernqeM8xkEqv48 Our Profile : https://atlan…

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Atlantic Drug Testing 2:06

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At Atlantic Drug Testing, we provide expert guidance and a comprehensive range of drug testing services to meet your needs. Official Website: https://www.atlanticdrugtesting.com Address: 1599 Hamburg Tpke Room 5, Wayne, NJ 07470, United States Phone: +1 800-912-4325 Find Us On Google Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bghernqeM8xkEqv48 Our Profile : http…

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Episode 23: The human cost of COVID's Religious dogma, one patient at a time 6:26

1+ y ago6:26

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The statistics bounce around about COVID even as the virus wanes and becomes just another recurrent cold. But the religious fanaticism of the COVID faithful, the rituals, the restrictions, those have not disappeared. In my world of geriatrics and long term care, my patients are still being made to suffer and even killed by those doctors and policy …

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Episode 22: the Gospel of Infectious Disease, Book One, COVID rituals 20:01

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From masks to one -way aisles to PPE to 20-second hand washing and 6-foot separation, COVID has demonstrated the religiosity of health care more than any singular event in my lifetime. The Gospel of Infectious Disease, which includes public health, is a frightening one; these doctors and their agents have consistently been on the wrong side of scie…

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Episode Twenty-One: The Sciency Song and the Voice of the Medical Religion 11:14

1+ y ago11:14

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In my book The Great Stupidity, which chronicles the journey of a naive and gullible French boy who seeks to find a cure for the Black Plague and to speak with the Great Frenchie in Paris who promises to provide the scientific means of stopping the plague, from waving ones hands to other absurd but accepted rituals, I seek to show how dangerous it …

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Episode Twenty: The Gospel of Cancer Book Two, Prostate Cancer 18:47

1+ y ago18:47

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Prostate cancer helps us understand the religion of health care through a very unique lens. For any religion to be effective it must instill fear into its adherents, have priests who offer a means of alleviating that fear, and then provide appealing but ultimately deceptive techniques to "cure" someone that seems to be sensible and effective but wh…

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Episode Nineteen: The Gospel of Cardiology Book Three: Eliquis 23:54

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Health Care has taken the shape of a religious theocracy in this country, with Trillions spent for the allure of salvation and eternal life, and a medical industrial complex mimicking the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages driving people down dangerous roads of myth and dogma to feed the beast. Medical priests, aka doctors, drive the faith and conv…

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Episode 18, The Religion of Medicine 16:34

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The only way I can grasp the huge gap between medical fact and the dogmatic myths spewed out by doctors and slurped up by frightened patients who seek salvation and long life is to view health care through the lens of it being a religion. Everything about our health care system and its doctor-priests is tainted by dogma. We spend $4 trillion dollar…

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Episode 17: Is your doctor a robot? 17:53

2+ y ago17:53

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We have talked about how Flexner's imprint on US health care leaves doctors as unthinking pimps for the drug companies. Doctors rarely independently evaluate interventions and tests, nor is their gaze patient-specific. Rather, they are apt to listen to "experts," many of whom are either directly or indirectly (in terms of their academic funding and…

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Episode 16: The myth of cancer screening and PSA 12:08

2+ y ago12:08

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We have been told that picking up cancers early and fixing them will save lives. But does it? It depends on the cancer. For breast and colon cancer, for instance, lifetime screening saves 1/1000 people from cancer deaths compared to those never screened. Other cancers, such as ovarian and pancreatic, are so aggressive that screening is not of value…

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Episode 15: Debunking the Cholesterol Myth 11:44

2+ y ago11:44

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Since the publication of Ansel Keys landmark and fraudulent Seven Countries Study over 50 years ago, our nation has been on an anti-cholesterol kick. We ascribe almost God-like meaning to the cholesterol measurement--especially Big Bad LDL--and are hell bent in doing whatever is necessary to bring it below some magically drug-industry defined thres…

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Episode Thirteen: The Flexnerian Biostate 14:26

3y ago14:26

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From the seeds of Flexner's Report grew the biostate in which we currently live. COVID certainly was the biostate on steroids, although the biostate has been part of our lives for decades thanks to Flexner. What are the ingredients of a biostate? First and foremost, I don't want it to sound like some conspiratorial James Bond Villainy type of creat…

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Episode 13: The legacy of racism spurred by the Flexner Report 18:31

3y ago18:31

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We have already heard how the Flexner Report in 1911 reduced doctors to robotic drones, beholden to corporate America, under the strict rule of AMA policies and dictates, who were taught that patients are nothing more than a series of numbers to be measured and fixed. The blueprint of Flexner--drawn up by corporate tycoons, eugenic doctors, and the…

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Episode 12: The seeds of our medical destruction, Flexner Part Two 17:51

3y ago17:51

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In part 2 of our look at the Flexner Report, we explore the nuts and bolts of the report and show how an insignificant educator, a fledgling medical organization, and a Eugenicist at Hopkins conspired with industry to reshape the entire medical industrial complex. The Report determined which medical schools would live and die. To survive the onslau…

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Episode 11: The seeds of our Medical Destruction, Flexner Part One 15:39

3y ago15:39

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In 1911 the medical world redirected itself with the publication of the Flexner Report, a legacy we still live with today. Everything we discuss in this podcast--from putting numbers over people, to doctors being pimps of drug companies, to industry infiltrating every aspect of health care, to people being bamboozled by false promises and expensive…

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Episode Ten: The harm of all those "lifesaving" Snake Oils 14:44

3y ago14:44

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When doctors uses deception and tricks to convince you to think that all the tests, drugs, and procedures they sell to you are "necessary and lifesaving," it's also crucial that they sell you on a fiction even more crucial to their role as unwitting pimps for the drug and device companies. They have to convince you that their snake-oil remedies are…

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Episode Nine: Which outcomes of medical interventions matter 14:26

3y ago14:26

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When we have a medical society hell-bent on measuring and fixing your numbers, you'll get a lot of tests, procedures, and drugs all designed to find abnormal numbers and fix them. But really, we need to base our tests and treatments on clinically meaningful outcomes: does the intervention actually help you. That help may be subjective and not subje…

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Episode Eight: It's all about Numbers 11:30

3y ago11:30

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As we delve into the dysfunction of our health care system, the most salient problem is that of numbers. We as doctors and as a profit-driven health care mega-complex have reduced patients into a series of measurements that, if abnormal, label them with defined diseases and subject them to number-fixing treatments. Whether medicines to lower sugars…

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Pimps and Drug Dealers 13:44

3y ago13:44

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“Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is today controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.” -William Osler At the turn of the last century, William Osler's vision of a patient-centered health care system based on science, critical thinking, and compassion was taking root at Hop…

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Episode Six: The Bricks of Medical Deception 12:43

3y ago12:43

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When we fall prey to doctors who promise us the world and delivery us a dish of deception and snake oil covered in a sauce of science and benign intent, we are easily fooled. Doctors are good at frightening us and then telling us, in the most detailed and complex way, that we have a disease and they have the cure. We either listen to them or we die…

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Why patients believe the myths their doctors tell them 12:14

3+ y ago12:14

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To understand why our medical system spends so much money to generate such bad results, we have to understand how it convinces patients to engage in acts that do not help them but which they believe are necessary and lifesaving. Doctors often used deceptive statistics and false promises of cure to sell patients drugs, tests, and procedures that are…

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Why doctors don't tell you the whole truth 10:58

3+ y ago10:58

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We've been discussing afib and the use of blood thinners to prevent strokes. We showed how medical statistics can be manipulated to show exaggerated benefit while minimizing risk, how surrogate markers (all strokes vs clinically significant strokes) are used to exaggerate the benefit of the blood thinners, and how that flawed data can put inputted …

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How medical statistics can trick you, the case of afib 10:24

3+ y ago10:24

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How your risk and benefit of medical interventions is explained to you goes a long way into your deciding if you want to take that drug, do that test, or have that procedure. We all trust doctors to tell us the truth. Sadly, they often don't. Afib is an illustrative way to show how medical statistics can skew the truth and make a certain drug or in…

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Afib and Medical Deception 10:00

3+ y ago10:00

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We will start delving into how doctors and the medical system can fool you by using various statistical tricks, models, and deceptive declarations of fact. No disease is more illustrative of this than atrial fibrillation (afib), which is a heart condition that is a multi-billion dollar business. Whether you have afib or not, learning about it can h…

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Introduction: Telling you the truth about healthcare 11:09

3+ y ago11:09

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As a doctor of 30 years, an author of fiction and nonfiction, and someone who studies our healthcare system, I felt it was high time I tell you the truth about the the mess we call healthcare. Because, everything they tell you is necessary and lifesaving, all those drugs and tests they tell you that you better get or God forbid the consequences, it…