Pulse — Episode 1: The Pulse

from BEDSIDE · host Robin Blackstone, MD, FACS

PULSE — EPISODE 1: THE PULSE Season 1 of Bedside. A pulse is what they call it when the heart, after a moment of silence, beats again. Kwame Mensah ran five miles on a Tuesday morning in March. He was forty-two years old. By every external metric American medicine knows how to read, he was well. He was, in fact, six months from dying. ABOUT BEDSIDE Bedside is a storytelling podcast from Doctor AI TV about the architecture of American medicine — the failures, the recoveries, and the people inside it building something better. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. Each multi-episode season tells one story. Season 1: Pulse — seven episodes, weekly Sundays at 6 a.m. Eastern through July 5, 2026. THE PROGRAM Bedside is part of Health 4.0: A Novel Global Healthcare System by Robin Blackstone, MD Doctor AI: Reimagining Healthcare, Rebuilding Trust, Delivering Health 4.0 (Blackstone Press, 2026) The American Health series (Blackstone Press, 2026) The Trajectory Engineering Papers (SSRN, Zenodo, arXiv) JOIN THE SEWING CIRCLE A private community on LinkedIn. The invisible-thread question is the rite of entry. SUPPORT THE H4 ALLIANCE SOVEREIGN HEALTH TRUST A 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 39-4429422). Tax-deductible. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. Produced by Blackstone Press. © 2026 Blackstone Press.

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Kwame Mensah was six months from dying and didn’t know. A storytelling podcast about the architecture of American medicine. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. From the world of Doctor AI. Season 1: Pulse.

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