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‘ZDoggMD’ takes on sleep apnea, Katy Perry (audio)

First TEDMED and now ... talk radio in the Canadian prairie? Dr. Zubin Damania, better known as ZDogg MD, for some reason called into a radio show on CKOM-AM in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last week to talk about his musical parodies of the rigors of the American healthcare industry.

First TEDMED and now … talk radio in the Canadian prairie?

Dr. Zubin Damania, better known as ZDoggMD, for some reason called into a radio show on CKOM-AM in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last week to talk about his musical parodies of the rigors of the American healthcare industry. (Actually, he hinted at the reason: One of his mentors at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Susan Shaw, came from and has since returned there.)

Host Brent Loucks played a clip from one of ZDogg’s newest songs, “Snore,” a sleep apnea-related parody of Katy Perry’s “Roar.”

Damania, founder and CEO of Turntable Health, a Las Vegas-based primary care clinic backed by Zappos.com founder Tony Hsieh, did almost get serious for a moment, discussing why he decided to start the clinic and why he likes to lampoon his profession.

“I think physicians in general go into medical school as some of the most creative, intelligent and just really sort of revolutionary characters, and then over years of training, and [with] the way our medical system is this Greek, hierarchical, horrible Socratic disaster, we get all that beaten out of us. And then what happens is that our patients don’t see us as human anymore,” he said.

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