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The Doctor's Lounge — 85 episodes
SNAP, Medicaid Fraud, and the Case for Letting Prices Work
No Villains, Just Incentives: A Healthcare Consultant Turned Writer on Why the System Fights Itself
Leaving the Employment Model: Dr. Mollie James on Going Independent
From Addiction to Advocacy: Tom Wolf's Journey
You Can't HSA That Away: Rachel Rosenthal on Medicare, Trade-offs, and Zero-COVID Singapore
Real Doc Speaks: Bureaucracy, Bad Incentives, and the Fight to Keep Doctors in Charge
The Cost Cure: Ashish Jha's Case for Price Caps, Competition, and Biosurveillance
Congressman Tom Oliverson on 340b, the No Surprises Act, gold carding, and more
Vinay Prasad: COVID, the FDA, and Why Journalism Keeps Getting Medicine Wrong
The Ship Has Sailed: Mike Munger on Medicare, Markets, and Debt
900 Regulatory Hurdles: Why AI Isn't Replacing Doctors Yet
Inside a $207 Million Verdict: What Every Physician Should Know About Malpractice Trials
Right-to-Try 2.0: Inside the Montana Model with Niklas Anzinger
Dan Donoho on Surgical Data Science, Regulation, and the Humanoid OR
Dr. George Tolis on Physician Pay, Private Practice, and a Valve Gone Wrong
Cremieux on FDA Reform, Fake Data, and the Columbia Admissions Hack
Scott Becker on Building Becker's Healthcare, Physician Supply, and Private Enterprise
Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Prison, and the Fraud That Shook Pharma
Do No Harm: Inside the Fight to Get Identity Politics Out of Medicine
The Myocarditis Double Standard: COVID, the Vaccine, and the Pediatric Deaths That Went Unreported
David Zweig on Schools, Science, and the Media's COVID Failure
Drug Pricing, Broken Incentives, and the 340b program Fixes Washington Won't Touch
Dr. Sanjay Dhall on Trauma, Medical Training, and the County Hospital That Doesn’t Bill
The Atom Bomb Speaks: Tracy Høeg on COVID, Myocarditis, and the FDA From the Inside
The ER Doc Who Quit the System - and Built His Own
The Cholesterol Debate: What the Keto Influencers Get Right (and Wrong)
Gaming the System: LTACHs, Guidelines, and the Evidence Problem in American Medicine
The FDA, Unicure, and the Limits of Accelerated Approval
Salty About Medical Education: Bryan Carmody on What the System Gets Wrong
Free Markets, Private Equity, and the Moral Case for Medicine
George Tolis: TAVR, Broken Training, and What's Really Wrong With Cardiac Surgery.
Center-Right in a White Coat: Pradeep Shanker on AI, Vaccines, and Medical Orthodoxy
The Surgeon Who Refused to Bow: Dr. Eithan Haim on Blowing the Whistle at Texas Children's
From Babylon to Baylor: How Insurance Went Off the Rails
Outpatient Brain Surgery: How Buffalo Built America's Only Neurosurgical ASC
The Intellectual Case Against Medicare: Buchanan, Tullock, and the Rules of the Game
Rural Health Myths, Mark Cuban's HSA Gambit, and How Neurocritical Care Was Born
From Tehran to the C-Suite: Biotech CEO Ali Mortazavi on AI, Drug Discovery, and the Me-Too Problem
Dr. DiGiorgio Goes to Washington: Site Neutrality, Stark Law Physician-Owned Hospitals & More
The Cost of Dissent: How a Viral Newsweek Op-Ed Led to Medical School Dismissal
The Shah's Spleen, Quality Metrics, Health Insurance & the FDA
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Battles the Health System
The Week in Review and Understanding the Medicaid Data Dump with Samir Unni
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya
The $2 Million Verdict: Inside the First Detransition Lawsuit Trial
Ed Gaines: How Independent Physicians Finally Got Leverage Against Insurance Companies
Dr. Gantwerker: Medicare Advantage, Private Practice, and Why Doctors Need to Stop Fighting on X
The DPC Revolution: Dr. Josh Umbehr on Making Healthcare Affordable Again
Journalist Alex Berenson: Fraud and Abuse with Autism therapy in the Medicaid Program
The Trump Healthcare plan, AI in Medicine, Medical Liability, and the sketchy 340b drug program
The ACA Subsidies, New Vaccine Schedules, Ezekiel Emmanuel, AI in Medicine
TDL Year End Review: the BBB Vindicated,First Principles in Health Policy and Popular 2025 Tweets
Diving Deeper into The Canadian MAID Program and GOP Healthcare Solutions
The Failure of the Electronic Medical Record in Medicine & the Impact of DEI in Medicine
Side Table with Christopher Habig: Turning Medicaid into a Trampoline, Not a Trap
Medicaid Fraud, COVID Vaccine Deaths, Eli Lilly PBM Moves, Health Care Economics
Side Table with Dr. Anahita Dua : Women's Health, Women in Medicine and the Challenges of Research Funding in Academia
Office Surgeries, Insurance Games, and Giving Thanks
Free Market or Central Control? Physicians Debate the Real Future of Healthcare
EThe Hidden Costs of Coverage: Why Subsidies Can’t Fix Healthcare
The Healthcare Fallacy: How Big Systems Broke the Market
Behind the Bill: What’s Really Driving Healthcare Costs
Side Table: The 340B Dilemma: Who Really Benefits?
When Politics Masquerades as Healthcare: A Deep Dive into Schumer’s Claims
Admit Defeat: How Hospitals Stripped Doctors of Control
The Government Shutdown: When Healthcare Policy Becomes Hostage Negotiation
The ACA Bubble: How Insurance Giants Hijacked American Healthcare
Private Equity in Medicine: Profit, Patients, and the Fight for Independent Practice
Side Table: Who Really Decides What Doctors Get Paid? Inside the RUC
ESide Table: Monkeypox, Public Health Messaging, and the CDC’s Trust Problem
EWho’s Steering the $50B? Doctors, Dollars & the Media Machine
EPatients, Politics, and the FDA: Who Decides What’s Enough Evidence?
EFutile Care, Dignity at the End of Life, and Physician-Owned Hospitals
Side Table: Declaring Death — Cutting Through the Noise on Organ Donation
Licensing Loopholes, Wage Pressures, and the Fight for Physician Standards
EPhysician Shortage, Visas, and Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine
Hope vs. Power: Gene Therapy, FDA Shake-Up, and Truth in Medicine
Enforcement, Arbitration, and the Fight to Keep Independent Medicine Alive
38% of Doctors Gone in 5 Years? Inside the Battle for Independence
Prior Auth: The AI Arms Race, Medicare’s Cliff, and the Boomer Trade-Off
ACIP Bloodbath, AMA Meltdown: Who Really Speaks for Doctors
Is Healthcare a Right or a Rigged System?
Medicare: Promise, Politics, and Patient Care – Are Doctors Just a Nuisance Now?
Medicaid: The Safety Net with Cracks
Why Physicians Need a Voice in Healthcare Policy