Zubin Damania
Zubin Damania, known as ZDoggMD, is a physician and creator making medical music parodies, healthcare commentary, and conversations about consciousness and non-duality.
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Known for
Music video
YouTube
Music video
Video comedyOverview
- Also known as
- ZDoggMD
- Work
- Physician, comedian, musician, and podcast host
- Training
- UCSF medical school and Stanford internal medicine training
- Online beginnings
- Began producing satirical rap videos in 2010
- Community
- The ZPac
Mini bio
Finding his voice.
Before ZDoggMD, Zubin Damania trained at UCSF and Stanford and spent a decade working as a hospitalist at Stanford. Comedy ran alongside medicine: he performed stand-up for medical audiences and used humor to connect with people.
From burnout to music videos.
He began making satirical rap videos in 2010. In an American Medical Association interview, he described the videos as a way to reconnect with himself, educate patients, and speak about a healthcare system that had left him burned out. The audience grew to include nurses, physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and veterinarians.
Putting the ideas into practice.
In Las Vegas, he founded Turntable Health, a subscription-based primary care clinic that he led from 2013 to 2017. His Health 3.0 message emphasized relationships and team-based care. On screen, songs such as Readmission and EHR State of Mind turned familiar workplace frustrations into musical comedy.
Where the conversations are now.
The ZDoggMD Show carries his interviews and live conversations. Recent episodes focus on consciousness, meditation, non-duality, and spiritual seeking, while retaining his humor and personal reflections. His official link page now describes him as a former Stanford hospital doctor exploring the non-dual nature of consciousness.
Creditschronological, newest first
Music videos and collaborations
- 2019Always a NurseVocals and lyrics with the Facebook Supporter Tribe
- 2017Vegetables with Rabbit!Guest rap
- 2015EHR State of MindLyrics and rap, with fan contributions
- 2015ReadmissionLyrics and performance
Comedy and speaking
- 2015ZVlogg #005: Doc VaderCreator and performer with Tom Hinueber
- 1999UCSF graduation speechClass-selected graduation speaker
Awards
Quotes
I kept doing it. Suddenly awakened in me was this idea that this is who I am.Zubin Damania, American Medical Association interview
In a 2016 interview, he described how making videos helped him reconnect with himself while facing burnout.
Trivia
- His UCSF classmates chose him to give a graduation speech in 1999. He says he tore up his first draft and rewrote it shortly before graduation.
- Fans helped write Always a Nurse and supplied the real nursing photos shown in the video.
- Doc Vader imagines Darth Vader as an attending physician navigating a troubled healthcare system.
- His recurring musical collaborator Devin Moore also invited him to rap on Rabbit!’s song Vegetables.
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