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How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker
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I built MDCalc 20 years ago because I wanted to save myself and other doctors time and make it easy for them to integrate more evidence into their medical care. Now I’ve launched Offcall to tackle something even bigger: giving doctors back our autonomy — through salary and workload transparency. These ideas shouldn’t be radical…but here we are. I still practice emergency medicine, but I’ve spent my career breaking out of the cookie cutter version of “what a doctor looks like” or “what a doctor’s supposed to do.” That’s why I started How I Doctor: a podcast about the most creative and influential physicians and how they’re rewriting the job description. Medicine wasn’t built for creativity. But I think that’s exactly what it needs. If you’re looking for new role models, different stories, or just proof that fulfillment is still possible in this era of medicine — this show’s for you. Welcome to “How I Doctor,” where we’re bringing joy back to medicine.
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Dr. Rana Awdish Almost Died as a Fellow. Now She's Teaching Doctors How to Heal.
2w ago00:36:39Tap to summarizeDr. Rana Awdish is a pulmonologist, critical care physician, and Medical Director of Care Experience at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. She is also the author of In Shock, a book that has changed the way countless physicians walk into a patient's room, and her new book After Shock, which picks up where that story left off.Rana nearly died as a fellow from a catastrophic illness that left her hospitalized in the very system she had trained inside. What she heard, experienced, and absorbed from the other side of the bed became the foundation for a decade of research into how medical language shapes patient outcomes.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Rana to explore what it actually means to heal, both for patients and for the physicians caring for them. They dig into Rana's Never Words research, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which identifies specific phrases physicians use that strip power from patients and offers concrete alternatives. And they get into the harder questions: how do you build trust with patients, why the data shows compassionate care actually makes clinical visits more efficient, and what it means that medicine has spent decades rewarding physicians for ignoring their own bodies.What You'll Learn in This Episode:The specific words and phrases from Rana's Never Words list that physicians should stop using, and what to say insteadWhy redistributing power through language is not just ethical but changes clinical outcomes including adherence and return visitsWhy medicine rewards disembodiment in physicians and what the cost of that has been for trainees, patients, and the professionWhat curiosity can do when every other communication tool has run outWhy the culture of medicine is not fixed, and what physicians can actually do to reshape it from within🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Physician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup
3w ago00:38:03Tap to summarizeDr. John Dayton is an emergency physician, Stanford innovation fellow, and co-founder of Wildfire Partners, a new healthcare seed fund built around a simple but data-backed conviction: physicians make better health tech founders than the industry has ever given them credit for.The data is hard to ignore: more than a quarter of billion-dollar healthcare companies built in the last decade had at least one clinician co-founder. John did not just write that paper. He built a fund around it.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with John to dig into what it actually takes to build a health tech company worth funding. They walk through John's Seven Ps framework for evaluating startups, what makes a pitch compelling versus an instant red flag, and why the barrier to entry for physician-founders has never been lower thanks to AI.What You'll Learn in This Episode:The Seven Ps framework John uses to evaluate every health tech company he considers fundingWhat kills a pitch immediately and what signals a founder has actually done their homeworkWhy AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for physician-founders and what that changes about building a company todayHow to think about the principal-agent problem when selling into health systemsWhy ambient AI tools matter more for physician burnout than the time savings data alone suggestsWhat John learned about scalable, practical problem solving from practicing in resource-poor clinical environmentsWhat winning actually looks like and why it is about more than financial🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Going Independent Doesn't Mean Going It Alone. Dr. Basil Kahwash on Fixing Referrals and Building Physician Networks
4w ago00:42:12Tap to summarizeMost physicians have had a referral disappear. Many have spent days tracking down a colleague just to coordinate care for a single patient.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Basil Kahwash, an allergist and immunologist in Columbus, Ohio, to talk about one of the most universal and underappreciated problems in medicine: the referral system is broken, and independent physicians are paying the highest price.Basil didn't set out to become an advocate for fixing referrals. He trained at Vanderbilt, where reaching a collaborating physician was as simple as sending an Epic message or jumping on a 20-minute Zoom call with three specialists at once. Then he went into independent practice in Columbus and discovered that none of that infrastructure existed. No shared records. No easy way to reach a referring physician. No directory of local specialists. Just a fax machine, a stack of paper charts, and a phone number he hoped was still current.The referral black hole isn't just a physician frustration. It's a patient safety problem. Basil shares the story of a pregnant patient with a rare drug allergy whose referring OB-GYN he couldn't reach for three to four days. These aren't edge cases. They're a typical Tuesday.Graham and Basil co-authored the referral manifesto at offcall.com/manifesto, making the case that independent practice doesn't have to mean isolated practice. This episode is the conversation behind that letter: what's actually broken, what it costs physicians and patients, and what a connected network of independent physicians could change.What You'll LearnHow patients have become the de facto middlemen in a system that has no better optionWhy most referrals arrive as little more than a diagnosis code, and what even a small amount of added context would changeHow the fax machine became the rate-limiting step for physician collaboration and why EHRs haven't solved the problemWhy hyperlocal physician networks exist within specialties online but not across specialties within cities, and what filling that gap could look likeWhat winning looks like if the referral problem gets solved: coordination fades into the background and physicians get back to patient careResources and Where to Find Basil and OffcallRead the Referral Manifesto: offcall.com/manifestoLearn about the Offcall Referral Product: offcall.com/referralsFind Basil on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/basil-kahwash-mdFind Graham on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Restoring Physician Mental Health and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, With Dr. Stefanie Simmons
Apr 3000:38:21Tap to summarizeMost physicians know a colleague who has struggled. Many know one who didn't make it.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Stefanie Simmons, Chief Medical Officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation and practicing emergency physician in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for one of the most important conversations in medicine right now.Physician mental health isn't an abstract policy issue. It's the licensing form that places a mental health history question directly after "are you a pedophile." It's the peripartum depression Stefanie developed during her own residency that she never treated because a formal diagnosis felt like a career risk. It's Dr. Lorna Breen, chair of emergency medicine at New York Presbyterian, working 18-hour days through the first COVID wave in Manhattan, who received mental health care and told her family she was terrified it would cost her her license. Stefanie didn't know Lorna before her death. But like every emergency physician in the country, she was one degree of separation from her. And when Lorna's family started hearing from hundreds, then thousands, of healthcare workers who said "she wasn't alone," Stefanie was one of the people who called.Stefanie makes the case that physician mental health is a systems failure, not a personal one, and that the fix is structural. The foundation has already changed the credentialing language at more than 2,000 hospitals and across 70 state licensing boards, covering more than 3 million health workers. The Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act was reauthorized in February 2026. The calculus is shifting. But the work is far from complete.This episode is an honest conversation about why physicians won't seek mental health care, what it costs when they don't, and how one foundation is rebuilding the system from the inside out.What You'll LearnHow the Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act works, what it funds, and why its reauthorization matters for every physicianHow a single question on a licensing application has kept generations of physicians from getting help, and what the foundation is replacing it withWhy physicians massively overestimate how much their colleagues will judge them for seeking mental health care, and what the data actually showsWhat Stefanie's own experience with peripartum depression during residency taught her about the cost of not getting helpWhy burnout is an occupational syndrome, not a personal failingWhat a struggling physician can do right now, and where to find supportIf You or a Colleague Need Help988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 / 988lifeline.orgPhysician Support Line: free, confidential, anonymous, staffed by psychiatrists / 1 (888) 409-0141 / physiciansupportline.comEmotional PPE Project: free anonymous mental health care for clinicians / emotionalppe.comAll For Mental Health resource hub: drlornabreen.org/all-for-mental-healthResources and Where to Find Stefanie and the FoundationDr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation: drlornabreen.org Take Action: drlornabreen.org/take-action All In Wellbeing First for Healthcare Coalition: drlornabreen.org/all-inFind Stefanie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefsimmons/ Follow the Foundation on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlornabreenheroesfoundation/ 🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Why The Pitt Is the Show Every Doctor Needs Right Now, with Dr. Jeremy Faust
Apr 2300:45:07Tap to summarizeThe Pitt just wrapped its most talked-about season yet - and two ER doctors who lived the real version have thoughts.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Today, to have an honest, insider conversation about what The Pitt actually gets right, what it's doing to the culture around medicine, and why it's hitting clinicians so differently than everyone else.This isn't a review. It's a reckoning. Graham and Jeremy explore physician grief, the mythology of burnout, the generational trauma baked into medical training, and why every ER doctor they know secretly identifies with Santos. Along the way, they explore what it means that a TV show is doing more to help Americans understand social determinants of health, end-of-life care, and the emotional weight of this job than almost anything the healthcare system has produced on its own.For doctors who have felt seen by this show, and for those who can't bring themselves to watch it yet, this is the conversation worth having.What You'll LearnWhy the most accurate thing about The Pitt isn't the medicine, it's the ethos.What the show is actually changing about how patients approach end-of-life conversations.Why ER doctors defend Santos when nobody else will, and what that reveals about the profession.How medical training perpetuates cycles of traumaWhy the term "burnout" may be the wrong frame entirely for what's happening to emergency physicians right now.🔗 Resources & Further ReadingJeremy Faust, MD — Inside Medicine Substack: https://insidemedicine.substack.comJeremy Faust on MedPage Today: https://www.medpagetoday.com/people/jf6550/jeremy-faustJeremy Faust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremysamuelfaust/Jeremy Faust on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@jeremysamuelfaustThe Pitt on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/the-pitt🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Using AI to Accurately Code and Measure Physician Outcomes, With Solventum’s Dr. Travis Bias
Apr 1600:35:48Tap to summarizeMost physicians understand that documentation is important. Very few understand the systems that determine what that documentation actually means for how they're paid, measured, and judged.Dr. Travis Bias does because he's spent years operating on both sides of that divide.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Travis Bias, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health Information Systems at Solventum, and one of the few clinicians who has led AI strategy for a company whose tools are already inside 80% of U.S. hospitals. The conversation covers the hidden infrastructure behind hospital quality scores, risk adjustment, and clinical documentation. And what most physicians don't realize about how those systems are shaping their professional reputation every day.Travis also brings a perspective most health tech voices lack: two years teaching medicine in Kenya and Uganda, where finite resources and physical exam skills are the standard of care. It's a vantage point that sharpens his thinking on everything from clinical judgment to what U.S. medicine consistently gets wrong.What You'll LearnWhy ambient AI documentation tools are capturing clinical complexity that physicians never had time to write down, and what that means for how patients are coded and how doctors get paidHow hospital quality scores, mortality rankings, and US News ratings are all downstream of documentation completeness and what physicians can do about itWhy the regulatory framework for healthcare AI is already behind the technology, and what happens if it doesn't catch upHow his time teaching medicine in East Africa changed the way he thinks about resource stewardship, clinical judgment, and the U.S. healthcare system's relationship with overtestingWhat tech companies consistently get wrong about physicians and what physicians consistently get wrong about techWhy Travis sees his role as a translator between medicine and technology, and how clinical training makes you better at bothResources & Where to Find TravisSolventum.com Travel Health Consult: LinkedIn🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
Transcribe →The AI Conversations Every Physician Should Hear: Highlights from Yann LeCun, Dr. Bob Wachter, and Dr. David Rhew
Apr 900:28:07Tap to summarizeAI is everywhere right now. In your inbox, your EHR, your hospital's strategic plan, and probably your last three CME credits. But most of what physicians hear about AI is either hype or fear. We think you deserve something better.In this special Best of AI episode, Dr. Graham Walker revisits three conversations that generated the most messages, DMs, and forwarded links from How I Doctor listeners, plus a Physician Spotlight that has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with why physicians need support right now.These guests don't agree on everything. But together they map a path that every physician needs to understand: where AI actually works today, where it falls short, and what's coming next.Featured Episodes & LinksYann LeCun is the ACM Turing Award Laureate, former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and co-founder of AMI, Advanced Machine Intelligence. Alex LeBrun is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of NABLA, and CEO of AMI. Listen to Move Over LLMS! AI Legends Yann LeCun and Alex LeBrun Debut AMI Labs' Bold Ambitions for World Models in HealthcareDr. Bob Wachter is Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, author of The Digital Doctor, and author of the new book A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What It Means for Our Future. Listen to What Doctors Get Wrong About AI with Robert Wachter, MDDr. David Rhew is an infectious disease physician and Global Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, working at the intersection of the world's largest health systems and its largest technology companies. Listen to Where AI in Medicine Is Actually Headed, with Microsoft’s CMO David RhewWhat You'll LearnYann LeCun & Alex LeBrunWhy large language models have a fundamental ceiling and what world models are designed to do insteadWhy 80% accuracy is considered excellent in research and completely unusable in clinical practiceWhat it actually took to build AI tools physicians trust and why every assumption they walked in with was wrongDr. Bob WachterWhy the healthcare system is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI, and uniquely capable of wasting those gains on a faster hamster wheelThe deskilling death spiral: what happens when the AI becomes more reliable than the human checking its workWhat part of medicine Bob believes we should never hand to AI, and whyDr. David RhewWhy AI in medicine isn't one thing, it's a portfolio of tools, and conflating them leads physicians to trust the wrong onesHow retinal screening AI is finding advanced diabetic disease in people who were told everything was fine months earlierWhy the most important physician skill in 2030 will have nothing to do with clinical knowledgeDr. Stefanie SimmonsThe spheres of control, influence, and acceptance and why physicians chronically misestimate which is whichWhy 43 state medical boards have now removed stigmatizing mental health questions, and how to check if yours is one of them🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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The Pay Gap in Medicine Is Real. Dr. Pamela Buchanan Is Done Being Quiet About It
Apr 200:37:54Tap to summarizeDr. Pamela Buchanan is an emergency physician, author, founder of Melanated Medicine, and one of the most candid voices in medicine on the things doctors aren't supposed to talk about. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Pamela to have the conversation most physicians have been trained their entire careers to avoid.What does it actually cost to stay silent about pay? What happens when a colleague throws a stethoscope on the ground and tells you that you're worth more than you're making? What does it feel like to be called the N-word by a patient you treat anyway?Pamela doesn't flinch. She talks about the $100,000 pay gap Black women physicians face even when matched for the same role. She walks through the moment a friend told her to rip up a signed contract — and the $75,000 sign-on bonus that landed in her bank account 48 hours later. She speaks openly about burnout, depression, and the mental health crisis medicine refuses to name. And she makes the case that the silence around all of it isn't accidental.This isn't a conversation about victimhood. It's a diagnosis of a broken system and a blueprint for every physician who's ever stayed quiet too long.What You'll LearnWhy pay transparency in medicine isn't just taboo, and why Pamela believes the silence is intentionalHow two candid conversations with colleagues changed her financial trajectory permanentlyWhat to say, what to ask, and what to refuse when you're sitting across from someone offering you a contractHow racism shows up on shift — not occasionally, but every single day — and what it costs to absorb it aloneWhat Melanated Medicine is, why Pamela built it, and what happens when Black women physicians finally find each otherWhy asking for help — professional, domestic, emotional — is not weakness but math🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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Virtual Neurology at Scale: Raj Narula and Melanie Winningham on How Sevaro Is Transforming Rural Stroke Care
Mar 2600:37:37Tap to summarizeDr. Raj Narula is a vascular neurologist who walked away from a neurointerventional radiology fellowship to build something that could reach thousands of patients instead of one at a time. Dr. Melanie Winningham is a vascular neurologist, medical director of a comprehensive stroke center in Virginia, and VP of Clinical Strategy at Sevaro- someone who has lived the neurology access gap from both sides of it.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Raj and Melanie to explore one of the most urgent and most invisible crises in American healthcare. What happens when a stroke patient lands in a rural ER at 2 AM and the nearest neurologist is a hundred miles away? For too long, geography has been the single biggest predictor of whether that patient walks out of the hospital. Sevaro was built to change that. This episode gets into what telestroke actually looks like when it's done right. They explain how Sevaro's AI-enabled platform — built by neurologists, for neurologists — puts a board-certified specialist on screen in 45 seconds, eliminates the call center entirely, and follows patients from the acute encounter all the way through rehab and outpatient care.This isn't a pitch for virtual care. It's a clinician's diagnosis of a workforce crisis that isn't getting better and a concrete look at what it takes to build technology that works the way physicians actually practice.If stroke outcomes are going to improve in rural America, it won't be through more neurologists. It will be through smarter infrastructure that makes the ones we have go further.What You'll LearnWhy geography remains the single biggest predictor of stroke outcomes and what it actually takes to close that gap at scale.How Sevaro eliminated the call center entirely and why that single design decision changes everything about the speed and quality of a telestroke consult.What AI is doing inside an acute stroke encounter and where Raj and Melanie draw a hard line between decision support and decision making.Why the neurology workforce crisis is structural and worsening, and how virtual neurology is reshaping who enters the field and why.How keeping patients in their own communities creates a trust loop that improves outcomes over time.Why state licensing requirements are the single regulatory change that would do the most to expand virtual specialty access in rural America.🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom
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How Medical Misinformation Took Over — and What Doctors Can Do to Take It Back w/ Dr. Geeta Nayyar
Mar 1900:33:03Tap to summarizeMedical misinformation isn't a new problem. But somewhere along the way, it stopped being background noise and became the loudest voice in the room.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Geeta Nayyar a rheumatologist, former Chief Medical Officer at both Salesforce and AT&T, and bestselling author of Dead Wrong. Together they diagnose how medical misinformation went from the fringes of the bell curve to the halls of power, and what physicians can actually do about it.Geeta doesn't come to this conversation as a distant observer. She's spent her career at the intersection of clinical medicine and health tech, advising organizations from the AMA to Fortune 500 companies on how to navigate a healthcare information landscape that has fundamentally broken down.Her perspective is grounded in something personal too. She saved her own mother's life during fellowship by doing what the system failed to do: gathering all the data, laying it out on the floor, and refusing to accept a diagnosis that didn't add up. That experience drove her into rheumatology and eventually into health tech, motivated by a simple question she still hasn't stopped asking: what does the average patient do when they don't have a doctor in the family?That question has never been more urgent. When patients can't get an appointment for six to nine months, they don't wait. They go to TikTok. They follow influencers who are confident, simple, and wrong. And while wellness gurus monetize confusion, hospitals are still telling their physicians they can't mention their institution on social media. Medicine left a vacuum, and the wrong people filled it.This episode is a call to action for every physician who has watched that happen and felt powerless to stop it. Graham and Dr. G make the case that physicians aren't just allowed to take the microphone. They are obligated to! And that the hospitals and health systems who figure that out first won't just be doing the right thing. They'll be winning.What You'll LearnWhy medical misinformation has moved from the fringes to the mainstream and what changed to make it this dangerousHow hospitals' culture of social media silence created the exact vacuum that wellness influencers now ownWhat the business case for physician content actually looks like and why Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser figured it out before everyone elseWhy confidence is not accuracy, and how to help patients tell the differenceThe practical playbook for physicians who want to build a public presence with their hospital's support, not in spite of itResources & Where to Find Dr. Geeta NayyarWebsiteDead WrongLinkedInInstagram
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