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The Doctor's Lounge — 64 episodes

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

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

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

The FDA, Unicure, and the Limits of Accelerated Approval

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

9

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

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

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

12

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

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From Babylon to Baylor: How Insurance Went Off the Rails

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Battles the Health System

22

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

23

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

Diving Deeper into The Canadian MAID Program and GOP Healthcare Solutions

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

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Office Surgeries, Insurance Games, and Giving Thanks

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

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

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The Healthcare Fallacy: How Big Systems Broke the Market

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Behind the Bill: What’s Really Driving Healthcare Costs

42

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

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

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Admit Defeat: How Hospitals Stripped Doctors of Control

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The Government Shutdown: When Healthcare Policy Becomes Hostage Negotiation

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The ACA Bubble: How Insurance Giants Hijacked American Healthcare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Physician Shortage, Visas, and Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine

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

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

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

59

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

60

ACIP Bloodbath, AMA Meltdown: Who Really Speaks for Doctors

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Is Healthcare a Right or a Rigged System?

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

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Medicaid: The Safety Net with Cracks

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Why Physicians Need a Voice in Healthcare Policy