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The Doctor's Lounge — 53 episodes

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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

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

4

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

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Battles the Health System

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

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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

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

14

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

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

Diving Deeper into The Canadian MAID Program and GOP Healthcare Solutions

22

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

23

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

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

25

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

26

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

30

Behind the Bill: What’s Really Driving Healthcare Costs

31

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

32

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

33

Admit Defeat: How Hospitals Stripped Doctors of Control

34

The Government Shutdown: When Healthcare Policy Becomes Hostage Negotiation

35

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

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

49

ACIP Bloodbath, AMA Meltdown: Who Really Speaks for Doctors

50

Is Healthcare a Right or a Rigged System?

51

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