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Dr. Cobble Q&A From November 26th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's time to talk to the doctor, doctor Cobble.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Michael Cobble is here with us. Good morning, doctor Cobble.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? I'm great, happy, Thanksgiving same to you.
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  Speaker 1: We Uh, now we can doctor Cobble can answer medical questions.
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  Speaker 1: We had a couple of things that occurred yesterday, Doctor Cobble.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about this this new flu strain that's
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  Speaker 1: apparently kind of taking Europe by surprise. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: anything about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: And what?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the question we had was is the flu
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  Speaker 3: vaccine that we got.
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  Speaker 4: Now gonna protect us at all?
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  Speaker 2: For that? Well, you're going to get some cross protection.
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  Speaker 2: So I think getting the blue vaccine smart. We try
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  Speaker 2: to anticipate the blue strains a year ahead of time
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to be exposed to. And there can
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  Speaker 2: always be other strains, but it's going to give you
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  Speaker 2: a better protection than nothing, and so I think. And
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  Speaker 2: then there are anti viral medications if you get the flu,
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  Speaker 2: and you get on those within three days. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: covid anti viral medications are within five days, but the flu,
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  Speaker 2: tama flu, those types of medicines you want to start
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  Speaker 2: within three days. So if someone really feels like they've
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  Speaker 2: been run over by a tractor trailer beaten up by
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  Speaker 2: a baseball bat. Then that's the flu and you want
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  Speaker 2: to call your clinician right away and get on those medications.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, oh, we got Braiden online. Biden is here. Go ahead, Braiden.
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  Speaker 1: What's your question?
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  Speaker 5: Braiden, Good morning everyone. Question for doctor Cobble is, I've
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  Speaker 5: been led to believe that it's better to sleep on
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  Speaker 5: your left side than it ends your right side. This
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  Speaker 5: is easier for your heart to function.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, right, I think there's data that would suggest that.
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  Speaker 2: I think, just sleep in the position that's most comfortable
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  Speaker 2: for you and try to get that six to nine
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  Speaker 2: hours of sleep if you can. If you're lucky enough
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  Speaker 2: to get more than six hours of sleep at night,
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  Speaker 2: that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Now, which side are you supposed to left?
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  Speaker 4: On the left?
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  Speaker 3: When I was pregnant, my my ob told me for
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  Speaker 3: pregnant women, especially because your organs are all squished around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's better to sleep on your left side because your
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  Speaker 3: heart have to work a little a little less.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I was always in a stomach sleeper. I mean
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  Speaker 1: literally just right on my stomach, not on my side
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  Speaker 1: on my stomach. But then over the years, I've sort
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  Speaker 1: of become a side and back sleeper more. But I
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  Speaker 1: sleep on my right side. What about just sleeping on
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  Speaker 1: your back, doctor Cobble? Was that was that good?
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  Speaker 6: Again?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the position you're most comfortable, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of a stomach sleeper, and just it's more comfortable
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  Speaker 2: for me or my left side. But I just find
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  Speaker 2: a position you're comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: All Right.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm on the airplane, I sleep on my back,
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  Speaker 2: all right, sitting up right, fancy seats, that recline. There
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  Speaker 2: you go, bright always in me economy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, go take a nap, Branden. What are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Cobbles?
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  Speaker 2: Making my garbage? Can? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, here's a question from the text, and then we'll
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  Speaker 7: take a break. You can call in the eight seven
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  Speaker 7: seven six two nine six nine six. Texters says, I've
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  Speaker 7: been experiencing testicular pain. I've been to the doctor. They
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  Speaker 7: have ruled out epidd midass, epidymous. They also did an
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  Speaker 7: ultrasound and didn't find anything. It does seem to radiate
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  Speaker 7: to my back. What else could it be?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds I mean it could be orchitis. The
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  Speaker 2: testicles inflamed itself epididymitis, which you guys mentioned. Without an exam,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to say. It could be neurogenic, meaning it's
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  Speaker 2: coming from one of the nerves in the back. So
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  Speaker 2: I think see your clinician again. If the urologists can't
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  Speaker 2: rule it figured out, maybe see your primary care doctor
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  Speaker 2: and they can talk about a mechanical problem or a
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  Speaker 2: grime paranal problem. So the hard parts you always wonder,
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  Speaker 2: is this inflammatory infection neurogenic, mechanical and that's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the things they need to go through. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's vascular, all right, they would have seen that
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  Speaker 2: on altered Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Danica has been very patient, hanging on the line there,
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  Speaker 1: So let's get that to Danica.
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  Speaker 4: There she is, Danica, Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being patient, Danica. How are you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm good, Thanks for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. What's your question for the doctor?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, So my son is fifteen, almost sixteen. He's got
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  Speaker 8: that chest indentation thing PEX of sexcavetis something.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a sunken chest.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a sunken chest. Yeah, he's got that, But
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  Speaker 8: lately he's had some heart rate issues where he'll be
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  Speaker 8: walking around the house and it'll his heart rate will
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  Speaker 8: go up to like one fifties, and he's gotten some
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  Speaker 8: notifications on his watch his heart rate is dropping while
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  Speaker 8: he's sleeping under forty. So I took him to his
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  Speaker 8: pediatrician and the doctor said that it's kind of a
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  Speaker 8: normal thing for a teenage.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, but you're still what to do?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm still concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it probably is normal. I mean the normal
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  Speaker 2: heart rates sixty to one hundred. It's not unusual when
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  Speaker 2: you're at rest for heart rates to drop below sixty.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're active, you know, running upstairs or doing things,
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  Speaker 2: your heart rate can go to one twenty one fifty
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  Speaker 2: one sixty. Where I'd really worry is at the heart
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  Speaker 2: rate if you got that tact cardia that went up
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  Speaker 2: and stayed there for forty minutes or an hour or two,
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  Speaker 2: and then he's getting a shorter breath or chest discomfort.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that that autonomic libility of the heart
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  Speaker 2: rates not unusual. Where I'd really worry is if you
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  Speaker 2: had a family history of cardiac death, like on QT
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  Speaker 2: syndrome or will Parkinson White. So if there's a family
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  Speaker 2: history of sudden cardiac death and healthy people young younger,
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  Speaker 2: healthy people, or if your son was complaining of chest pain,
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  Speaker 2: shortness of breath, or passing out in those episodes. But
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  Speaker 2: I think if he's not having those kinds of symptoms,
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  Speaker 2: heart rate variability is dynamic. You know, blood pressure can
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  Speaker 2: change by thirty points in any moment. Heart rate can too.
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  Speaker 2: And again if he's not symptomatic, or his heart's not
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  Speaker 2: staying at one fifty for an hour, two or three.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in medical school, three or four off
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  Speaker 2: my classmates, usually women would get ventricular tax cardia, super
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  Speaker 2: ventricular tax cardia, and they'd have to go to the
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  Speaker 2: emergency room after two or three hours because like they'd
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  Speaker 2: been exercising at full full activity for two, three four hours.
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  Speaker 2: And anyone that knows, I mean Bill doesn't know this. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: When they exercises with the heart rate of one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty, you know, after ten fifteen, twenty minutes, you're
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  Speaker 2: pretty wiped out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Does that make you feel better?
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  Speaker 2: Dan?
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  Speaker 5: You get your hurried above one hundred?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can get I can get above one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: But it depends on what I'm watching on TV.
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  Speaker 7: I understand you being concerned, Mom, k.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's probably fine.
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  Speaker 4: All right, good luck. Here's a text question. Is it
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  Speaker 4: normal to have thick spit.
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  Speaker 2: Spit?
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  Speaker 7: Usually thickens after consuming food or certain beverages.
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  Speaker 4: Thick spit spit, It's not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: The salivary glands may or may not produce, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mucus that can find things out. It depends on your age.
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  Speaker 2: As we get older, it's hard to make mucus. There
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  Speaker 2: are other things allergies hate, fever, pusinsel drainage, reflux. But
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  Speaker 2: you know you might be allergic to some certain products
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  Speaker 2: they're ingesting effects the the gland secretion of your salvary,
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  Speaker 2: the spit.
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  Speaker 1: As I've become older, I've found that I make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mucus rather than less mucus.
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  Speaker 7: Here's a question I'm not sure that doctor Kobble can answer,
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  Speaker 7: but we can certainly bitch about it. Why do healthcare
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  Speaker 7: providers allow health insurance companies to dictate how you treat patients?
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  Speaker 7: Health insurance is organized legalized crime against the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I agree with that. It's sad I've
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  Speaker 2: never gotten a thank you letter from an insurance company
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  Speaker 2: for preventing a hospitalization or a heart attack, or treating
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  Speaker 2: diabetes correctly, or preventing a stroke or you know. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really frustrating. The bad thing is the insurance companies
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  Speaker 2: have all the power, the power, they have the money,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how ever change.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I found that doctor's for people who are
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  Speaker 1: assistants in doctor's offices. The doctor doesn't usually have time
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  Speaker 1: to mess with this, but or a pharmacists are very
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  Speaker 1: good advocates for patients with against the insurance companies. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a problem, often somebody the pharmacists will say, look,
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  Speaker 1: i'll see if I I'll deal with it. I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to the insurance company. Yeah, we'll work this out. I
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  Speaker 1: had this just happened to me the other day. I
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  Speaker 1: got a notice from our insurance company that says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the shot you've been getting in your eyeball to prevent
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  Speaker 1: you going blind nacular degeneration, that shot you've been getting
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  Speaker 1: is no longer covered. We're no longer covering.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, their philosophy is, well, you'll still live.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thousand dollars a shot or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're not going to cover it. Anymore. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to appeal, here's how you do it.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I called the doctor's office and they said, oh, let
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  Speaker 1: let me have you talk to the insurance person. And
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  Speaker 1: I talked to the insurance person and the insurance person's, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we already appealed that, and it's fine. Your
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  Speaker 1: your insurance is just still covering. But you know, for
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  Speaker 1: for a day, you have to jump through all those
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  Speaker 1: for a day, and for a day, I'm worried, sick
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not going to be able to get these
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  Speaker 1: and just exactly such crap.
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  Speaker 2: It's such yeah, frustrating. My mom's running through the same
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  Speaker 2: thing with her shots. But you brought up a great point.
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  Speaker 2: The pharmacists are amazing advocates, and you can also be
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  Speaker 2: an advocate. It may take you forty hours to oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, feel those things, but the nursing staff could
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  Speaker 2: be great advocate that I think parts they're all overworked
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  Speaker 2: and underpaid and deny, deny, deny, deny, deny that they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to cover anything exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Now here's a text question.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty years ago, I broke my foot and they had
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  Speaker 7: to put pins in it on the outer side below
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  Speaker 7: pinky toes. Presently, I've been having intense sharp pains on
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  Speaker 7: the other side by my big toe. Could this be related?
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  Speaker 4: And would you recommend having the pin is removed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a great question for a pediatrist
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  Speaker 2: because oftentimes the metal the hardware can be removed. It's
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  Speaker 2: depending on the different joint or area where it was done.
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  Speaker 2: So I would get it, you know, an exam by
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  Speaker 2: a pediatrist, see if it's mechanical from the pins that
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  Speaker 2: are there. For another cause that my daughter just had
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  Speaker 2: ACL surgery and they're going to take the They're going
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  Speaker 2: to take the screw out because it's been bothering here.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that that hardware probably could be removed.
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  Speaker 7: Now here's again where we would have preferred you calling in,
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  Speaker 7: because there's the way this is worded confuses me. Going
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  Speaker 7: to an event next Friday? Now does that mean this
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  Speaker 7: coming Friday or next week? See again, if you call in,
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  Speaker 7: I can ask you these questions. Going to an event
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  Speaker 7: next Friday with a ton of people, will the flu
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  Speaker 7: shot be effective? If I get it today, I guess
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  Speaker 7: is it's next week? If it's this coming Friday, it
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  Speaker 7: won't be right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I like to get the flu shot,
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  Speaker 2: usually ten to fourteen days before you know, get an
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  Speaker 2: adequate response. I think if you're going somewhere next Friday,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't hurt to get the flu shot now, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully if anyone's sick, they're not attending the events and spreading.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the point. Here's the point. Get the flu shot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's next week or then, it's just get the
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  Speaker 1: damn flu shot.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a material if you're deciding whether to go
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  Speaker 4: or not.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they're wandering, don't get anyway, Well.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're they're going to Early November is a good
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  Speaker 2: time for a flu shot that gives you full immunity
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  Speaker 2: by Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 4: So okay, let's go to Caden. Caden is here.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hi Cayden, Good.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, Lords and doctor of course, Oh what's your question?
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  Speaker 10: So kind of odd? So throughout the day, my jaw
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  Speaker 10: seems to accumulate air bubbles, and over the time it
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  Speaker 10: starts to pop and make a weird tign when I
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  Speaker 10: open my jar when I talk.
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  Speaker 9: It doesn't bug me that much, but my lady looks
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  Speaker 9: at me funny, and I know that it's being obnoxious.
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  Speaker 9: So I was wondering if maybe you could push me
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  Speaker 9: to a jaw doctor, if that's even a thing, or
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  Speaker 9: if you might know what the heck's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have two options. One is talk
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  Speaker 2: to your dentists next time you going for your cleaning.
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  Speaker 2: The other would be maybe an ear nose and throat
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  Speaker 2: doctor because without examining you and you know what you've
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  Speaker 2: described to other phone, I'm not sure if this is
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  Speaker 2: coming from the tempero mandibular joint or something inside. So
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  Speaker 2: I think a panoramic X ray by your dentist and
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  Speaker 2: an exam by your dentist, and then maybe ear nose
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  Speaker 2: and throat doctor. I think those are the two options.
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  Speaker 5: There you go, all right, k okay okay?
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  Speaker 9: And I also have another question.
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  Speaker 6: I also want to know what's your opinion on the
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying that these nurses aren't professional or the nursing
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  Speaker 6: isn't a profession anymore.
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  Speaker 9: I want to get your opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's really sad. I think the nurses
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  Speaker 2: have the hardest job in care in healthcare professional care
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  Speaker 2: pharmacists and nurses. I think both are exactly amazing professionals.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you.
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  Speaker 7: Think about it back during COVID they were called what workers,
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  Speaker 7: priority but essential, essential workers, and now suddenly they're not
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  Speaker 7: so essential.
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  Speaker 4: Well, come on, they're just not professional, that's all, all right.
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  Speaker 9: I totally agree completely. I appreciate you guys have.
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  Speaker 6: A good one.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, text question, what's the best treatment for a
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  Speaker 7: sore throat? I've been living off of chloroseptic lozenges for
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  Speaker 7: the past few days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it depends on the cause of the
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  Speaker 2: sore throat. Usually the strap threat it's ten out of
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  Speaker 2: ten pain, you can't swallow anything, it's twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously that's an antibiotic. Otherwise, most sore throats are post
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  Speaker 2: nasal drainage, so they're worse in the morning, and that's
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  Speaker 2: where in the history and like clariton aleegras isa al
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  Speaker 2: xertec loaradodine maybe twice a day for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: and then at night. Usually that will clear it up
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  Speaker 2: after three, four, five days, I think, you know, gargling
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  Speaker 2: with a little bit of salt water, lemon juice, you
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  Speaker 2: know those those throat losses are great, But usually most
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  Speaker 2: sore throats are viral or post nasal drainage. If they
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  Speaker 2: go more than five days and I and I like
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  Speaker 2: to look at them and to see what's going on.
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  Speaker 7: Our pharmacist in the chat room, Demetri, says, don't overdo chlorosseptic.
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  Speaker 7: It can affect the heart.
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  Speaker 1: We is that it. That's all the time we have,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, safe travels, Rocapov will have a good
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and we'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks everyone else as well, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: all right,