Medicine on TV is wrong!

Medical Muggle Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, discuss how docs feel about Elizabeth Warren's plan for Medicare-for-all. They also discuss how bingeing on your favorite show affects sleep and how TV and films get medical care so wrong. 

The guest this week is Ashley Alker, MD, who is a medical consultant for various TV programs and films -- she helps them get it right. The interview starts at 20:20.

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Links:

• Warren's health care plan
  • What it means for doctor pay
  • How docs feel about it
• Netflix is taking your sleep away
• The times TV messed up:
  • The Blacklist 
  • The Good Doctor
• The Sentinel Awards
• Ashley Alker, MD
  • Website
  • Twitter

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