Jan Hnízdil - How to Stay Healthy in a Sick Society

How to Stay Healthy in a Sick Society: an informal talk about health and disease in individuals and society as a whole, followed by a discussion with the audience.

MUDr. Jan Hnízdil (born 1958) is an internist and rehabilitation physician. He has written books including My Patients, The Disease Charmer, Stories of Ordinary Healing, How Not to Become a Patient, About Back Pain: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask, Everyone Is a Psychopath Except Me I'm an Airplane, and Chronicle of the COVID Era.

In 2013, he founded the Nest of Health (Hnízdo zdraví), a practice in complex psychosomatic medicine. According to him, in 2024 it was taken over and destroyed by representatives of medical mainstream. In 2015, he received the Golden Wandering Boulder award from the Club of Czech Skeptics Sisyphus. For serious violations of medical expertise and ethics during the COVID period, in 2024 he expelled the Czech Medical Chamber from his organization and moved to the position of health advisor.

Admission: 450 CZK, 500 CZK at the door.