EPISODE · Jun 25, 2026 · 48 MIN
55 Years Without a Diagnosis | Can AI Solve The Undiagnosed Condition Blind Spot? | Haresh Patel - Founder and CEO, Sanare Health AI
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Send us Fan MailHe spent fifty-five years searching for answers. Dozens of doctors. Hundreds of tests. Twelve different diagnoses. And what he discovered wasn't just a problem with medicine - it was a problem with the system itself.Haresh Patel ( https://hareshpatel.ai/ ) is an entrepreneur, engineer, Founder and CEO of Sanare Health AI ( https://sanarehealth.ai/ ), and author of the memoir The Ghost in My Body: What Twelve Doctors Couldn't Find ( https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-My-Body-Doctors-Couldnt-ebook/dp/B0GL561XNC ).After immigrating from India and earning an electrical engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame, Haresh built a distinguished career in Silicon Valley, ultimately founding Mercatus, a private-markets data platform that grew to manage more than $1.5 trillion in assets before being acquired by State Street in 2021.But behind that business success was a deeply personal story. For more than 55 years, Haresh lived with unexplained symptoms, navigating a maze of specialists, tests, and conflicting diagnoses without ever receiving a clear answer. Rather than accepting the limitations of the system, he applied the same systems-thinking and pattern-recognition skills that made him successful in technology and finance to his own health journey.That experience led Haresh to a provocative conclusion: many patients don't suffer from a lack of doctors - they suffer from a lack of synthesis. Modern medicine excels at specialization, but often struggles to connect information across disciplines, timelines, and life experiences.Today, Haresh is the founder of Sanare Health AI, an AI-powered diagnostic intelligence platform designed to help patients with complex, chronic, and undiagnosed conditions uncover patterns hidden within fragmented medical data. His mission is to give physicians a more complete picture of the patient, empower individuals to own their health stories, and help solve one of healthcare's most overlooked challenges: the millions of people still searching for answers.We discuss diagnostic failure, AI in medicine, data sovereignty, root-cause healthcare, and what happens when a patient spends a lifetime becoming the expert on his own condition.#HareshPatel #TheGhostInMyBody #SanareHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #AIHealthcare #RareDisease #UndiagnosedDisease #DiagnosticOdyssey #PrecisionMedicine #RootCauseMedicine #HealthcareInnovation #FutureOfMedicine #MedicalAI #HealthTech #ChronicIllness #PatientAdvocacy #Longevity #MedicalDiagnostics #ComplexPatients #ProgressPotentialPossibilitiesSupport the show
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Send us Fan Mail He spent fifty-five years searching for answers. Dozens of doctors. Hundreds of tests. Twelve different diagnoses. And what he discovered wasn't just a problem with medicine - it was a problem with the system itself. Haresh Patel ( https://hareshpatel.ai/ ) is an entrepreneur, engineer, Founder and CEO of Sanare Health AI ( https://sanarehealth.ai/ ), and author of the memoir The Ghost in My Body: What Twelve Doctors Couldn't Find ( https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-My-Body-Docto...
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55 Years Without a Diagnosis | Can AI Solve The Undiagnosed Condition Blind Spot? | Haresh Patel - Founder and CEO, Sanare Health AI
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