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Where scalpels meet systems — and physicians say what they really think.
Co-hosted by Anish Koka, MD & Anthony DiGiorgio, DO. Candid talks on healthcare policy, reform, physician autonomy & patient care.
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Dr. Sanjay Dhall on Trauma, Medical Training, and the County Hospital That Doesn’t Bill
Episode SummaryThis week, Drs. DiGiorgio and Koka are joined by returning guest Dr. Sanat Dixit and special guest Dr. Sanjay Dhall, chief of neurosurgery at Harbor-UCLA and a leading spinal cord…
The Atom Bomb Speaks: Tracy Høeg on COVID, Myocarditis, and the FDA From the Inside
Episode SummaryDr. Tracy Høeg — physician, epidemiologist, and former Acting Director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research — joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio for her first interview…
The ER Doc Who Quit the System - and Built His Own
Episode SummaryDr. Noah Kaufman - board-certified emergency physician with 20 years in the ER, seven seasons on American Ninja Warrior, and a new direct acute care practice in Denver - joins Drs.…
The Cholesterol Debate: What the Keto Influencers Get Right (and Wrong)
Episode SummaryDr. Greg Katz, preventive cardiologist at NYU Langone and co-host of Beyond Journal Club, joins Anish to dissect the online cholesterol debate — specifically the claims made by science…
Gaming the System: LTACHs, Guidelines, and the Evidence Problem in American Medicine
Episode SummaryDr. Anil Makam — hospitalist, health services researcher at UCSF, and faculty at Zuckerberg San Francisco General — joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio for a wide-ranging conversation on the…
The FDA, Unicure, and the Limits of Accelerated Approval
Episode SummaryAnish sits down with Adu, a med student and biotech investor, to work through the FDA's contested handling of Unicure's AMT-130 — a gene therapy for Huntington's disease delivered via…
Salty About Medical Education: Bryan Carmody on What the System Gets Wrong
Episode SummaryPediatric nephrologist, medical educator, and "Sheriff of Sodium" Dr. Bryan Carmody joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio to challenge some of the most persistent narratives in American…
Free Markets, Private Equity, and the Moral Case for Medicine
Episode SummaryJared Rhoads, founder of the Center for Modern Health and senior lecturer in health policy at the Dartmouth Institute, joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio for a wide-ranging conversation on…
George Tolis: TAVR, Broken Training, and What's Really Wrong With Cardiac Surgery.
Episode SummaryDr. George Tolis, section chief of coronary and general cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of…
Center-Right in a White Coat: Pradeep Shanker on AI, Vaccines, and Medical Orthodoxy
Episode SummaryRadiologist, National Review senior contributor, and prominent center-right voice in medicine Pradeep Shanker joins Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio for a wide-ranging conversation…
The Surgeon Who Refused to Bow: Dr. Eithan Haim on Blowing the Whistle at Texas Children's
Episode SummaryDr. Eithan Haim, a general surgeon in the Dallas area, joins Anish to walk through the events that took him from chief resident at Baylor to facing four federal felony counts and up to…
From Babylon to Baylor: How Insurance Went Off the Rails
Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio trace the history of insurance from ancient Babylonian bottomery contracts through Egyptian workers' guilds, Greek risk-pooling societies, Lloyd's of London, and the birth of…
Outpatient Brain Surgery: How Buffalo Built America's Only Neurosurgical ASC
Episode SummaryAnish and Anthony are joined by Dr. Elad Levy — Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery at the University at Buffalo, holder of the L. Nelson Hopkins Endowed Chair, and one of the…
The Intellectual Case Against Medicare: Buchanan, Tullock, and the Rules of the Game
Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio dig into the intellectual debate that preceded the 1965 passage of Medicare, focusing on the economists — James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises,…
Rural Health Myths, Mark Cuban's HSA Gambit, and How Neurocritical Care Was Born
Back from hiatus, Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio swap travel notes on Japan and San Diego before diving into Anish's recent Substack piece mapping emergency cardiac care access across the United States —…
From Tehran to the C-Suite: Biotech CEO Ali Mortazavi on AI, Drug Discovery, and the Me-Too Problem
Guest: Ali Mortazavi | CEO, Tangram Therapeutics (formerly E-Therapeutics), London, UKEpisode Summary:Ali Mortazavi is not your typical biotech CEO. A computer scientist by training, former…
Dr. DiGiorgio Goes to Washington: Site Neutrality, Stark Law Physician-Owned Hospitals & More
Episode SummaryDr. DiGiorgio returns from testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, the third in a series of hearings on healthcare costs covering the provider…
The Cost of Dissent: How a Viral Newsweek Op-Ed Led to Medical School Dismissal
Kevin Bass, PhD, joins Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio to tell the story of how a viral Newsweek op-ed apologizing for his support of COVID lockdowns and mandates set off a chain of events that ended in his…
The Shah's Spleen, Quality Metrics, Health Insurance & the FDA
Dr. Anish Koka and Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio open with the little-known medical story behind the death of the Shah of Iran — how Mohammed Reza Pahlavi came to be operated on in Cairo in 1980 by legendary…
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Battles the Health System
In this conversation, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden shares her experiences as an independent physician during the COVID-19 pandemic, detailing her courageous battle against health systems and the Texas…
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