Nobel Prize Snubs, AI Medicine, Brain Death, SSRIs

Vinay Prasad (0:01)

So.

Zubin Damania (0:02)

I think we're live.

Vinay Prasad (0:03)

All right.

SPEAKER_3 (0:04)

What's up?

Zubin Damania (0:04)

Episode 45

Vinay Prasad (0:05)

45, it's good. It's good to be back in the weekly swing.

SPEAKER_3 (0:08)

It sure is.

Zubin Damania (0:09)

I gotta give a shout out. There's, so there's a, there we are. There's a couple of, there's a fan of our show who's a-

Vinay Prasad (0:17)

Dentist.

Zubin Damania (0:18)

Peridontist, yeah. And his twin brother is a general dentist, and they have a band called Dentalica, which is a Metallica cover band, and the drill them all pulling teeth to her. And so he sent us kindly each a shirt.

Vinay Prasad (0:31)

I got mine here.

Zubin Damania (0:32)

Yes.

Vinay Prasad (0:32)

I can put it on later.

Zubin Damania (0:34)

And so I wore mine, but VP's gonna just wear his more-

Vinay Prasad (0:38)

My Campbell Soup shirt.

Zubin Damania (0:39)

That's right.

Vinay Prasad (0:40)

That's what I walked into earrings.

Zubin Damania (0:41)

He wanted to rep Warhol, and I wanted to rep Kill Em All.

So yeah, shout out to those guys. You can find them on YouTube. They're really good. Like the dude shreds the guitar, and the whole thing just sounds legit. And as an old Metallica fan, and I mean old, as in I'm an old man, the shit was legit. All right. So today we're going to talk about a bunch of stuff, right? Bunch of stuff. Maybe we'll hit brain death. We're going to talk about AI and medicine, which is always-

SPEAKER_3 (1:07)

You should restream it.

Zubin Damania (1:08)

Huh? Yeah. It takes a minute. It takes a minute. Sometimes like, cause it says zero views. So Vinay's ego is like, zero views? That can't be me.

Everybody wants to see me. That's actually, I'm thinking the same thing. Let's see. Is it actually showing up in our thing?

Vinay Prasad (1:23)

I don't see it on the feed.

Zubin Damania (1:26)

Well, I guess we'll know soon enough.

That is odd because it looks like it's streaming. It is public. Yeah, you know, sometimes, and I don't see any comments yet, which is strange.

Okay. Oh wait, no, concurrent view is 13 I think something's happening. There's a delay, dude. Your channel is broken, okay? It's just broken. All right, all right.

Vinay Prasad (1:50)

Let's go through what we're gonna talk about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Zubin Damania (1:52)

So we're talking about brain death, talking about AI and medicine. Talking about three year, can you graduate medical school in three years and still not suck as a doctor?

Vinay Prasad (1:59)

Okay.

Zubin Damania (2:00)

We were gonna talk about-

Vinay Prasad (2:01)

SSRIs.

Zubin Damania (2:01)

SSRIs, you know, what's the data on that stuff? And we might talk, we'll start off by just a follow up on our previous, we're talking about executions. And should healthcare professionals be involved in this? Should we be medicalizing this? And just an update on our dear friend, Christa Pike, we talked about last week.

She woke up talking, pissed as fuck, because she's like, I thought I was going to die. I told you guys I had bad veins, and now here I am again. Nobody knows what's going to happen.

People are lobbying the governor to give her a stay of execution. But when this has happened in the past, they just kind of delay the execution, and they do it again later. So-

Vinay Prasad (2:38)

It's the ultimate hospital bounce back, it's not the ultimate amount.

Zubin Damania (2:42)

Oh, could you imagine? She fails another execution and she bounces back, and then they don't get paid. They get dinged in the health care quality measures. It's like, oh, we had a bounce back, we weren't able to effectively have her executed.

Vinay Prasad (2:54)

And then this is class B in the chart, and they're like, no, don't write that! Line associate, VTE.

SPEAKER_3 (3:00)

Oh my God, yeah.

Zubin Damania (3:01)

She got MRSA while in the hospital after failed execution. That's just typical.

You're trying to get executed and you get C diff instead.

Vinay Prasad (3:09)

But I think Trump's listening to us because he authorized a death by firing squad.

Zubin Damania (3:15)

Not only that, but live streaming it for hustle. They're live. So Pete Hegseth, bless his heart, gets on and says, we're going to live stream this execution of Hassan who shot up, you know, did a heinous crime, shot a bunch of people at the Fort Hood.

And we were just last week saying, if you're going to do capital punishment, the state needs to publicize its violence. And that's exactly what they're doing.