Dr. Allen Bookatz

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1,037 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Because the body thinks that it's trying to fight something off.

And that's really, I think, the line that we have to draw here between acute care medicine and optimizing our health.

And if all of that didn't convince you, let's just think about for a moment the practical side of like what actually happens with plasmapharesis.

All right.

The steps are the following.

You show up in clinic.

Step two, they take a really, really big needle, okay, and they put it in your neck.

All right.

It's a huge ID line.

It's a huge thing.

They suck a lot of blood out and then put it back.

All right.

And all of the things that go along with that can go wrong.

Okay?

You can hit an artery.

I've done it.

You can collapse a lung.

Done that too.

Come see me at VR, guys.

Not to mention infection risks.

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