ZDoggMD

Who is ZDoggMD?

Zubin Damania is a hospitalist, an internal medicine doctor specializing in patients admitted to hospitals, from the Bay Area, California, who is also known online as ZDoggMD, an internet celebrity known for his music videos, parodies, and comedy sketches about contemporary medical issues and working in the medical field.

ZdoggMD has been featured or interviewed in several significant medical-based, and other types of well-known publications including TechCrunch, Radio Rounds, The Guardian, Mental floss, ReachMD, ScienceBlogs, ACP Hospitalist, and Today's Hospitalist, among others.

His website won the 2010 Best New Medical Weblog at the 2010 Medical Weblog Awards sponsored by Epocrates and Lenovo.

His videos feature a rotating cast of several characters, also practicing doctors, including, most often, Dr. Harry, a pediatrician, and Doc Quixote, Dr. Diego and others.

He often collaborates musically with Southern California DJ and Producer samix, who produced the album Midriff Music by Josh Martinez which won the category "Best Rap Recording" award at the 2005 Western Canadian Music Awards.

ZdoggMD's work has been called "entertainment that might save your life", he has been labeled "the jolliest doctor on the West Coast", and "a genuine doctor who uses YouTube as a creativity outlet to teach people about things like safe sex, delivering bad news, stayin' healthy on vacation and hemorrhoids."