Episodes

Addiction medicine physician Safina Adatia discusses her article, "Why gambling addiction is America's next health crisis." She warns that following the Supreme Court's 2018 ruling to overturn sports gambling bans, the U.S. is facing a potential epidemic with tens of millions at risk. Safina explains that unlike substance use disorders, problem gambling lacks sufficient research, effective treatments, and public health infrastructure. The conversation explores how the ease of access through smar...

Clinical research physician Khutaija Noor discusses her article, "." She addresses the intense pressure and profound disappointment International Medical Graduates (IMGs) face when they go unmatched for a residency spot in the U.S. Drawing from her...

Psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, "." He argues that labeling AI errors as "hallucinations" is a dangerous euphemism that trivializes real psychiatric conditions and downplays the...

Leading food allergy advocate Lianne Mandelbaum discusses her article, "." She explains how for millions of people living with food allergies, dining out is often an exercise in survival rather than a joy, filled with anxiety about cross-contact and...

Board-certified pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article, "." She argues that the health care industry's current approach to physician burnout is failing because it treats a predictable cultural problem like a personal...

Physician coach and medical school professor Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "." She explores what it means to be a "mother scholar" in academic and medical cultures that reward detachment and often view caregiving as a distraction. Drawing...

Physician executive Bhargav Raman discusses his article, "." He argues that the common doomsday predictions about artificial intelligence are a projection of our own human flaws and a misunderstanding of progress. Bhargav asserts that humanity has...

Renowned fertility specialist Oluyemisi (Yemi) Famuyiwa discusses her article, "." She explains that von Willebrand disease (VWD), the most common inherited bleeding disorder, affects up to 1 percent of the population and poses unique challenges for...

Physician executive Steven Lane discusses his article, "." He explains that true interoperability is not just about technology but about aligning people, processes, and IT systems to allow patient information to flow seamlessly across all members of a...

Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article, "." Drawing from her experience leading a workshop for women cardiologists, she explores the sacred irony of physicians who are experts in the heart yet rarely tend to their own....

Physician executive Laura Kohlhagen discusses her article, ." She argues that since electronic health records were originally designed for billing and compliance, they have created disjointed workflows, cognitive fatigue, and clinician burnout....

Academic physician executive William Wertheim discusses his article, "." He argues that the U.S. medical system is training professionals who will not meet the needs of the country's rapidly aging population. With the number of Americans over 65...

Psychiatrist Sabooh S. Mubbashar discusses his article, "." He reveals that the principle "First, do no harm," or Primum non nocere, is not part of the original Hippocratic Oath but a later, misattributed addition that has become a dangerously...

Health care marketing strategist Sara Meyer discusses her article, "." She explains why a physician's online presence is often the deciding factor for potential patients and highlights the common gap between high-quality clinical care and an outdated...

Nationally recognized psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, "How President Biden's cognitive health shapes political and legal trust." While carefully observing the ethical constraints of the Goldwater Rule, he analyzes the public discourse surrounding the cognitive health of former President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. from a medico-legal standpoint. Muhamad explains how the former president's known medical history, including surgerie...

Gastroenterologist Anuj Vikrant Sharma discusses his article, "." He warns of a quiet epidemic of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver condition now increasingly appearing in people in their 20s and 30s who may not...

Health law attorney Dennis Hursh discusses his article, "." For nearly 40 years, he has reviewed physician employment agreements and reveals a shocking recent trend: hospitals are increasingly capping physician salaries, often at the 90th or even 75th...

Adjunct professor of psychiatry Arthur Lazarus discusses his article, "," which presents a moving fictional story excerpted from his book. The narrative centers on Thad, a retired physician and aspiring writer, and his two daughters, one of whom is a...

Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article, "." She shares the powerful story of a female neurosurgeon who, on the verge of leaving medicine for interior design, instead chose to completely redesign her career. Jessie...

Independent emergency physician Kenneth Ro discusses his article, "." He shares his deeply personal journey, from growing up as a bullied Korean American boy in Texas who used academic achievement as "armor," to a 35-year career on the front lines of...

Certified coach Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "." As a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen and mother to a child with complex health care needs, she explores the profound tension of navigating two vastly different systems. Kathleen recounts the...

Infectious disease physician Janet A. Jokela discusses her article, "." Recounting her own experience diagnosing a case in the 1990s, Janet contrasts that contained incident with the current crisis in 2025, which has seen over 1000 cases and the first...

Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article, "." She argues that the culture of medicine is steeped in judgment—from the language of "noncompliant" patients to the intense scrutiny of training—and that this culture is...

Nationally recognized psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, "How deep transcranial magnetic stimulation is transforming mental health care." He shares his experience with deep TMS (dTMS), a non-invasive neuromodulation therapy that offers rapid relief for patients with severe depression, OCD, and other conditions that have resisted conventional treatment. Muhamad explains how recent accelerated protocols can condense weeks of therapy ...