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Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks


Interviews w/ authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and others on resilience, getting on or getting over life’s set ups and setbacks.

On the podcast Larry has in-depth conversations with notable people from a variety of fields and occupations; professors, entrepreneurs, athletes, physicians, etc, to get their stories or research on how to deal with or prepare for life’s challenges, stumbles, and stings. If research exists on how people bounce back, he talks about it. If there are physical practices, proven psychologies or philosophies that can help people build personal foundations before the storms come, he digs into it.

Apr 6, 2020

At the moment as I publish this, there are 340,000 cases of the Coronavirus and over 9,700 deaths from it in the U.S. Over 70,000 deaths world wide. 

The amount and velocity of information on the pandemic is overwhelming and much of it conflicts. Do this - don't do that. I need help parsing all of it. 

Enter Dr. Alex Lickerman, M.D. 

Alex is a direct primary care physician at ImagineMD, spending the first 20 years of his career as a leader at the University of Chicago, where he ran primary care for seven years and taught generations of today’s leaders in medicine. There he enjoyed a reputation as “a doctor’s doctor,” caring for many physicians who are themselves today considered leaders in their fields. 

I wanted to talk with Alex about the Coronavirus because of his unique qualifications as a physician and his work in resilience. Alex is the author of, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self that formed the basis of the landmark Resilience Project, which he began while at the University of Chicago.

Short show (36 mins) but I get to ask a lot of questions that he kindly answers in detail

  • Comparisons New York vs Chicago
  • What's unique about the Coronavirus
  • Current best treatments  
  • Separating fact from the news 
  • Symptoms and timeframes
  • What should I do if I get sick?
  • How long will this last?
  • Tylenol, Advil - which ?
  • The problem with hydroxychloroquine
  • Percentages - sick or very sick
  • Hospital capacity in the US
  • On face masks
  • How long will this last?
  • Why and how we can be calm