Why ”Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You’re Healthy — Lucy McBride Goes Beyond the Prescription

Primary care physician Lucy McBride has spent decades in a Washington, D.C. examination room doing something radical: listening. A Princeton and Harvard Med graduate who trained at Johns Hopkins, she built her career on the belief that health lives in the relationship between doctor and patient — not in the lab report. Her first book, Beyond the Prescription, lays out a four-quadrant framework for understanding the body as an ecosystem. In this conversation, we dig into why "normal" labs can be misleading, how AI and wearables are changing the game (and sometimes making things worse), the promise and pitfalls of GLP-1s, and what brain health prevention actually looks like. Lucy shares the appendicitis-bagel story that proves even doctors are imperfect patients. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays