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The Doctor's Lounge — 74 episodes

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Inside a $207 Million Verdict: What Every Physician Should Know About Malpractice Trials

2

Right-to-Try 2.0: Inside the Montana Model with Niklas Anzinger

3

Dan Donoho on Surgical Data Science, Regulation, and the Humanoid OR

4

Dr. George Tolis on Physician Pay, Private Practice, and a Valve Gone Wrong

5

Cremieux on FDA Reform, Fake Data, and the Columbia Admissions Hack

6

Scott Becker on Building Becker's Healthcare, Physician Supply, and Private Enterprise

7

Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Prison, and the Fraud That Shook Pharma

8

Do No Harm: Inside the Fight to Get Identity Politics Out of Medicine

9

The Myocarditis Double Standard: COVID, the Vaccine, and the Pediatric Deaths That Went Unreported

10

David Zweig on Schools, Science, and the Media's COVID Failure

11

Drug Pricing, Broken Incentives, and the 340b program Fixes Washington Won't Touch

12

Dr. Sanjay Dhall on Trauma, Medical Training, and the County Hospital That Doesn’t Bill

13

The Atom Bomb Speaks: Tracy Høeg on COVID, Myocarditis, and the FDA From the Inside

14

The ER Doc Who Quit the System - and Built His Own

15

The Cholesterol Debate: What the Keto Influencers Get Right (and Wrong)

16

Gaming the System: LTACHs, Guidelines, and the Evidence Problem in American Medicine

17

The FDA, Unicure, and the Limits of Accelerated Approval

18

Salty About Medical Education: Bryan Carmody on What the System Gets Wrong

19

Free Markets, Private Equity, and the Moral Case for Medicine

20

George Tolis: TAVR, Broken Training, and What's Really Wrong With Cardiac Surgery.

21

Center-Right in a White Coat: Pradeep Shanker on AI, Vaccines, and Medical Orthodoxy

22

The Surgeon Who Refused to Bow: Dr. Eithan Haim on Blowing the Whistle at Texas Children's

23

From Babylon to Baylor: How Insurance Went Off the Rails

24

Outpatient Brain Surgery: How Buffalo Built America's Only Neurosurgical ASC

25

The Intellectual Case Against Medicare: Buchanan, Tullock, and the Rules of the Game

26

Rural Health Myths, Mark Cuban's HSA Gambit, and How Neurocritical Care Was Born

27

From Tehran to the C-Suite: Biotech CEO Ali Mortazavi on AI, Drug Discovery, and the Me-Too Problem

28

Dr. DiGiorgio Goes to Washington: Site Neutrality, Stark Law Physician-Owned Hospitals & More

29

The Cost of Dissent: How a Viral Newsweek Op-Ed Led to Medical School Dismissal

30

The Shah's Spleen, Quality Metrics, Health Insurance & the FDA

31

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Battles the Health System

32

The Week in Review and Understanding the Medicaid Data Dump with Samir Unni

33

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

34

The $2 Million Verdict: Inside the First Detransition Lawsuit Trial

35

Ed Gaines: How Independent Physicians Finally Got Leverage Against Insurance Companies

36

Dr. Gantwerker: Medicare Advantage, Private Practice, and Why Doctors Need to Stop Fighting on X

37

The DPC Revolution: Dr. Josh Umbehr on Making Healthcare Affordable Again

38

Journalist Alex Berenson: Fraud and Abuse with Autism therapy in the Medicaid Program

39

The Trump Healthcare plan, AI in Medicine, Medical Liability, and the sketchy 340b drug program

40

The ACA Subsidies, New Vaccine Schedules, Ezekiel Emmanuel, AI in Medicine

41

TDL Year End Review: the BBB Vindicated,First Principles in Health Policy and Popular 2025 Tweets

42

Diving Deeper into The Canadian MAID Program and GOP Healthcare Solutions

43

The Failure of the Electronic Medical Record in Medicine & the Impact of DEI in Medicine

44

Side Table with Christopher Habig: Turning Medicaid into a Trampoline, Not a Trap

45

Medicaid Fraud, COVID Vaccine Deaths, Eli Lilly PBM Moves, Health Care Economics

46

Side Table with Dr. Anahita Dua : Women's Health, Women in Medicine and the Challenges of Research Funding in Academia

47

Office Surgeries, Insurance Games, and Giving Thanks

48

Free Market or Central Control? Physicians Debate the Real Future of Healthcare

49

The Hidden Costs of Coverage: Why Subsidies Can’t Fix Healthcare

50

The Healthcare Fallacy: How Big Systems Broke the Market

51

Behind the Bill: What’s Really Driving Healthcare Costs

52

Side Table: The 340B Dilemma: Who Really Benefits?

53

When Politics Masquerades as Healthcare: A Deep Dive into Schumer’s Claims

54

Admit Defeat: How Hospitals Stripped Doctors of Control

55

The Government Shutdown: When Healthcare Policy Becomes Hostage Negotiation

56

The ACA Bubble: How Insurance Giants Hijacked American Healthcare

57

Private Equity in Medicine: Profit, Patients, and the Fight for Independent Practice

58

Side Table: Who Really Decides What Doctors Get Paid? Inside the RUC

59

Side Table: Monkeypox, Public Health Messaging, and the CDC’s Trust Problem

60

Who’s Steering the $50B? Doctors, Dollars & the Media Machine

61

Patients, Politics, and the FDA: Who Decides What’s Enough Evidence?

62

Futile Care, Dignity at the End of Life, and Physician-Owned Hospitals

63

Side Table: Declaring Death — Cutting Through the Noise on Organ Donation

64

Licensing Loopholes, Wage Pressures, and the Fight for Physician Standards

65

Physician Shortage, Visas, and Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine

66

Hope vs. Power: Gene Therapy, FDA Shake-Up, and Truth in Medicine

67

Enforcement, Arbitration, and the Fight to Keep Independent Medicine Alive

68

38% of Doctors Gone in 5 Years? Inside the Battle for Independence

69

Prior Auth: The AI Arms Race, Medicare’s Cliff, and the Boomer Trade-Off

70

ACIP Bloodbath, AMA Meltdown: Who Really Speaks for Doctors

71

Is Healthcare a Right or a Rigged System?

72

Medicare: Promise, Politics, and Patient Care – Are Doctors Just a Nuisance Now?

73

Medicaid: The Safety Net with Cracks

74

Why Physicians Need a Voice in Healthcare Policy