Jun 2, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
This week, primary care doctors Mark Ebell, Kate Rowland, Henry Barry and Gary Ferenchick discuss four new studies: whether water is better than diet drinks in diabetes, a new RCT of Paxlovid for…
Bell, a professor of family medicine at Michigan State and editor-in-chief of Essential Evidence Plus.
I'm Gary Forrenzek, a general internist and professor of medicine at Michigan State University.
In 1974, Heimlich published, um, uh, his technique on the maneuver for choking, and 100 years ago today is... was the day that Marilyn Monroe, uh, was born.
A-and I mention this in large part because of her death from, uh, overdose and wondering what might have happened had she had access to mental health care, um, and, and to point out the fact that, um, access to mental health care, um, historically has changed, that people who were rich and wealthy who you would have expected to have access, um, are, don't necessarily fare, um, um, uh, any better than our indigent patients.
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Bell, a professor of family medicine at Michigan State and editor-in-chief of Essential Evidence Plus.
I'm Gary Forrenzek, a general internist and professor of medicine at Michigan State University.
In 1974, Heimlich published, um, uh, his technique on the maneuver for choking, and 100 years ago today is... was the day that Marilyn Monroe, uh, was born.
A-and I mention this in large part because of her death from, uh, overdose and wondering what might have happened had she had access to mental health care, um, and, and to point out the fact that, um, access to mental health care, um, historically has changed, that people who were rich and wealthy who you would have expected to have access, um, are, don't necessarily fare, um, um, uh, any better than our indigent patients.
