Episodes

Double board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist Erica Bove discusses her article "A clinician’s guide to embryo grading in IVF." Erica breaks down the complex metrics used to evaluate embryo quality, a subject often reserved for subspecialty fellowship training. The conversation guides listeners through the critical developmental milestones from fertilization to the blastocyst stage. Erica demystifies the alphanumeric grading system used...

Family physician and health care entrepreneur Tod Stillson discusses his article "." Tod argues that the binary debate between AI as a savior or a threat misses the point. The real issue is that modern medical complexity has outgrown human cognitive...

Physician and health care consultant Harvey Castro discusses his article "." Harvey outlines the immense potential of large language models to reduce administrative burdens while warning of the risks regarding misinformation and privacy breaches. The...

Psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article "." Muhamad explores the dangerous misconception that "natural" equals safe, revealing how consumers unknowingly ingest substances with opioid-like...

Internal medicine physician Shiv K. Goel discusses his article "." Shiv contrasts the two hours he spent fighting a prior authorization with the promise of Anthropic's new "Claude for Healthcare," an AI system designed to handle claims and verify...

Professor of clinical psychiatry Michael F. Myers discusses his book Physicians With Lived Experience: How Their Stories Offer Clinical Guidance and the article "Breaking the silence: mental health and racism in medical school." The conversation highlights the journey of Dr. Chris Veal, a Black gay physician who overcame a seven year depression and the trauma of losing five family members to COVID 19. Michael explores the intersection of academic pressure and systemic racism, detailing how a pho...

Developmental behavioral pediatrician Roxanne Almas discusses her article "." Roxanne shares her deeply personal journey through the "quiet unraveling" of burnout and the profound grief of losing both parents. She describes how she moved away from the...

Physician and health care reform advocate David K. Cundiff discusses his article "." David challenges the IPCC's failure to model a fully organic global agricultural transition, presenting a scenario where converting 5 billion hectares to biointensive...

Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article "." Jessie argues that the rising number of "disruptive" labels slapped on highly skilled doctors is not a failure of character but a predictable response to a broken health care...

Internal medicine physician Corinne Sundar Rao discusses her article "." Corinne argues that the term "call" is a euphemism used to extract free labor from employed physicians who no longer own their practices. She highlights the discrepancy between...

Family physician and health benefits advisor Jonathan Bushman discusses his article "." Jonathan contrasts the grueling decade of training and massive debt required to become a doctor with the thirty-minute process of obtaining a health insurance...

Family physician Travis Walker discusses his article "." Travis reflects on the glaring double standard facing his daughter compared to his sons in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling. He explores the unique medical risks inherent in every...

Internal medicine physician Sally Daganzo discusses her article "." Sally explains how the pursuit of a perfect diet can spiral into a debilitating obsession where food rules dictate a patient's entire life. She describes how individuals often adopt...

Psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article "." Muhamad explores the complex landscape of psychedelic medicine, balancing the growing public interest with the necessity of rigorous FDA oversight...

Physician, author, and health care reform advocate David K. Cundiff discusses his article "." David analyzes the severe funding crisis affecting American families where premiums have skyrocketed and millions lack access to primary care providers. He...

Practicing anesthesiologist and the physician co-founder of Marit Health Rob Anderson discusses his article "Why can’t finding a doctor job be like Zillow." Rob shares his personal journey through divorce and house hunting, revealing how apps provided the control and privacy missing from his professional life. He contrasts the ease of filtering dates or homes with the invasive reality of medical recruitment, where doctors are bombarded by spam texts and expensive headhunters. The conversation ad...

Fertility specialist Oluyemisi Famuyiwa discusses her article "." Oluyemisi explains that while clinicians often focus on egg quality, the aging of the uterus itself is a frequently overlooked factor in implantation failure. She explores clinical data...

Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article "." Jessie shares how a personal crisis involving her husband's severe depression forced her to abandon her training in logic and control for a more intuitive approach. She explains...

Vascular surgeon Paula Muto discusses her article "." Paula argues that the government shutdown over health care funding misses the real issue of administrative bloat consuming 75 percent of spending. She explains how corporate consolidation and...

Pediatrician Trevor Cabrera discusses his article "." Trevor explains how choosing the path of an independent contractor allowed him to pay off massive student debt while exploring the country on his own terms. He challenges the misconception that...

Postdoctoral researcher Wei Zhang discusses the article "." Wei explains how peripheral artery disease acts as a silent burden on the "life-highway" vessels of the body and why amputation rates are tragically rising by nearly 9 percent annually...

Nationally recognized psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article "Why CPT coding ambiguity harms doctors." Muhamad analyzes the landmark case of United States v. Ron Elfenbein, where a federal judge acquitted a physician of fraud charges because the underlying CPT rules were "unquestionably ambiguous." He explains the 2021 changes to Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes and how prosecutors attempted to criminalize reasonable clinical judgm...

Board-certified pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article "." Jessie explains how medical training conditions doctors to view endurance as a virtue and delay their own basic needs for the sake of the profession. She argues...

Physician, author, and health care reform advocate David K. Cundiff discusses his article "." David outlines a transformative plan to replace the fragmented U.S. insurance system with member-owned, nonprofit cooperatives that integrate medical...