Kaveh is joined by guest cohost Dr. Raja Jagadeesan and captain/physician Niall Downey to discuss the similarities and differences between medicine and flight as well as how to manage stressful situations. 

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Episode 176 - Yes, There is a Doctor on Board

Kaveh and producer Nadeem chat with transplant surgeon Juliet Emamaullee and medical anthropologist/ethicist Meghan Halley about the challenges and excitement of studying rare disease.

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Episode 177 - Rare Diseases

Kaveh reads listener emails, tells a story he’ll probably regret, and explains Persian new year. 

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Episode 178 - Mailbag #2!

Kaveh speaks with ER doctors Jeremy Faust, Ryan Marino, and Lauren Westafer about The Match - what it is and why the emergency medicine spots went so under-filled this year.

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Episode 179 - The State of Emergency Medicine

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino and Kristi Yamaguccimane to discuss the strange week in medicine, the reaction to Stanford's incoming surgical interns, vulva gatekeeping, and medical grifts.

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Episode 180 - Colonics and Heavy Metal Detox

Kaveh is joined by hepatologist Elliot Tapper and musician Marc Gasway to discuss what the liver does, the latest in liver grifts, and how to actually help your liver.

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Episode 181 - Liver Myths and Grifts

Kaveh is joined by college professor Shauhin Davari and sleep doctors Seema Khosla and Chris Winters to talk about what happens when you don't get enough sleep, how to get more, and how alcohol and marijuana may be affecting it.

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Episode 182 - Sleep with The House of Pod

Kaveh is joined by Rebecca Watson and Dr. Dan Freedman to discuss anti-vaxxer and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Florida Surgeon General’s fraud, and those post-vaccine injury videos.

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Episode 183 - RFK Jr. and Other Nonsense

Kaveh is joined by Shauhin Davari and Comedian/Actor Maz Jobrani to chat about performing comedy around the world, the protests in Iran, and the psychological impact on the Iranian diaspora.

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Episode 184 - Maz Jobrani Returns

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino, Tyler Black, and Kristi Yamaguccimane to discuss whether American children are being “hypersexualized” and discuss conservative beliefs about homosexuality and pedophilia.

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Episode 185 - Homophobia & Conservative Panic

Kaveh and co-host Parker James are joined by Dr. Jonathan Howard to discuss his new book on the failed quest for herd immunity that led otherwise reasonable doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement.

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Episode 186 - We Want Them Infected

Kaveh and Wei chat with comedian and actor Dan Ahdoot about Undercooked, his new book on obsession with food, learn how to return food at restaurants, and how being pre-med can prepare you for a career in entertainment.

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Episode 187 - Undercooked

In a special team up, Kaveh is joined by James of “It Could Happen Here” to learn more about delivering health care to the Native American population. Guests include medical student Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen and Dr. Molly Hallweaver.

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Episode 188 - Indigenous Health Care

Kaveh is joined by intern Ali and psychiatrist Tyler Black to discuss the online bullying of Peter Hotez and what life is like in college in 2023. 

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Episode 189 - College!

Kaveh is joined by musician Marc Gasway and molecular pathologist Jason Rosenbaum to learn what it is that pathologists actually do, why autopsies are important, and why we're doing less of them these days. And also, cow vaginas.

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Episode 190 - Pathology

Kaveh is joined by Ed Niremberg and Dr. Gavin Yamey to examine RFKs disastrous impact on the measles epidemic in Samoa and how the history of COVID is being rewritten. 

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Episode 191 - COVID Revisionist History

Kaveh is joined by co-host Ryan Marino to discuss acts of violence in the healthcare setting with Dr. Alison Huckenpahler and medical student Yousof Fawzy, who have studied the rise in attacks.

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Episode 192 - Violence Against Healthcare Workers

Kaveh and psychiatrist Dr. Sulman Mirza chat with The High Priestess of Wrestling, Dark Sheik (Sam Khandaghabadi) about professional wrestling and how a trans Persian story teller started the accidental Bay Area phenomenon known as Hoodslam.

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Episode 193 - Dark Sheik

Kaveh is joined by med school classmate Bobby Davari and world class shit-poster Kristi Yamaguccimane (Will Poole) to discuss Epidemiology with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz and to discuss what happens when research goes bad.

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Episode 194 - Epidemiology and Other Delights

Humor-adjacent medical podcast hosted by a GI doc and friends. Putting the “fun” back in mfunedicine.

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