Category: Anish Koka

THCB Gang Episode 64 – Thurs August 26, 1pm PT- 4pm ET

Anish Koka, Casey Quinlan, Jessica DaMassa, Michael Millenson, Mike Magee, THCB Gang / August 26, 2021 August 26, 2021

THCB Gang is back from its summer break. Joining me Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) for an hour of topical and sometime combative conversation on what’s happening in health care and beyond will be patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@MLMillenson); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey), medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee), WTF Health host & …

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THCB Gang Episode 47, Thursday March 18

Anish Koka, Casey Quinlan, Jeff Goldsmith, jennifer benz, Saurabh Jha, THCB Gang / March 18, 2021 March 18, 2021

Joining me , Matthew Holt (@boltyboy), on THCB Gang this week were fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey), consumer advocate & CTO of Carium, Lygeia Ricciardi (@Lygeia), THCB regular authors radiologist Saurabh Jha (@roguerad) & cardiologist Anish Koka (@anish_koka), with futurist Jeff Goldsmith on hand to keep us all honest. We started with Casey’s current health …

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Correlative Adventures with COVID

Anish Koka, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, Covid-19 Vaccine, Health Policy, Ivermectin / March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021

By ANISH KOKA “The patient in room 1 should be a quick one, its an addon, they just need a prescription for ivermectin” I’m a bit puzzled by this sentence from my assistant doing his best to help me through a very busy day in the clinic that I’m already behind in. I walk into …

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The Paradigm Shift That Wasn’t: The ISCHEMIA Trial

Anish Koka, cardiology, ISCHEMIA trial, Medical Practice, Physicians / February 26, 2021 February 26, 2021

By ANISH KOKA A recent email that arrived in my in-box a few weeks ago from an academic hailed the latest “paradigm shift” in cardiology as it relates to the management of stable angina. (Stable angina refers to chronic,non-accelerating chest pain with a moderate level of exertion). The points made in the email were as …

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Viruses on Motorcycles

Anish Koka, COVID-19, Health Policy, pandemic, sturgis motorcycle rally / October 26, 2020 October 26, 2020

By ANISH KOKA The most recent fiction dressed up as science about COVID comes to us courtesy of a viral Washington Post article. “How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest” screams the headline. The charge made is that “within weeks” of the gathering that drew nearly half a million …

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