How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker

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• 40+ Authors, 9 Specialties, and a Book Written by the Next Generation of Doctors: Emily Leventhal and Rishma Jivan on The Physician's Guide to AI From Offcall and MD+ 02.07.2026 35นาที

  Emily Leventhal is a third-year MD-PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rishma Jivan is a fourth-year at Rush Medical College who spent years inside San Francisco health tech startups before going back to medical school. Together they co-led The Physician's Guide to AI, a nine-specialty e-book built with more than 40 physician authors, published in partnership with MD+.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Emily and Rishma to find out what medical training actually looks like from inside the AI shift. What's really happening on rotations, in the hallways, and in the conversations students are having with attendings who don't always know what to make of it.They dig into the "hidden curriculum," the unwritten norms of medical training that AI is starting to help close for students who don't come from medical families, and why Rishma refuses to let herself trust an AI output without teaching herself to critique it first. Emily makes the case that AI won't just change how physicians practice, it will change which specialties students choose to go into at all. And both push back on the idea that relying on these tools is a shortcut, describing it instead as a discipline they're still building the rules for in real time.This isn't about students skipping the hard parts of training. It's about a generation building the habits and guardrails the rest of medicine hasn't caught up to yet.📖 Download The Physician's Guide to AI: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GY36B58ZWhat You'll LearnWhy every medical student is already using ChatGPT to prep for cases, and why that's different from the smaller group actually building AI tools.What the "hidden curriculum" is, and how AI is helping close that gap for students without a medical background in the family.How to guard against automation bias: the habit of verifying an AI output against its source before trusting a clinical recommendation.Why AI's impact on a specialty may become a real factor in how students choose where to train.🩺 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
• Your Patient Trusts ChatGPT More Than You Now: The New Yorker's Dr. Dhruv Khullar on Medical Authority in the Age of AI 25.06.2026 37นาที

  Dhruv Khullar is a hospitalist at New York Presbyterian, a health policy researcher at Weill Cornell, and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. That combination is rarer than it should be. Most physicians writing about medicine observe it from a remove. Dhruv rounds on patients in the morning, then sits down to report on what medicine is becoming for one of the most widely read publications in the country. What he writes carries clinical weight because he was just in the room.Over the past several years, Dhruv has reported at length on AI and its risks for clinical training, the structural forces reshaping the profession, and what he calls the Gilded Age of American medicine: dazzling innovation on the surface, structural rot underneath. That rot has a specific anatomy. Private equity now owns roughly 500 hospitals in the United States, and in some markets a single firm controls more than half of physician practices in a given specialty. Medicare Advantage insurers have turned risk-adjusted payment into a revenue strategy, systematically capturing diagnostic codes for conditions patients may not know they have and that no physician is treating, because sicker-looking patients generate more money. The value-based care revolution that many physicians believed in, Dhruv included, has not delivered on its promise. And all of it is happening while AI is simultaneously raising the ceiling of what medicine can do and quietly lowering the floor of what training physicians are being asked to do themselves.In this episode of How I Doctor, Graham sits down with Dhruv to get into what his reporting has actually uncovered and what it means for physicians living inside this moment. They talk about the difference between cognitive deskilling and cognitive foreclosure: the risk that medical trainees who turn to AI before doing the hard thinking themselves may never build the reasoning infrastructure that clinical judgment depends on. Dhruv describes watching an AI model called Cabot go head to head with one of the best diagnosticians he has ever trained alongside on a New England Journal CPC case, and nearly gasping when the machine finished in minutes. They also get into what happens to medical authority when a patient in your ER trusts ChatGPT over the physician standing in front of them, how Medicare Advantage is being gamed, and whether medicine can still be a calling after the system has spent years making it feel like a job.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Why cognitive foreclosure may be a bigger threat to physician training than cognitive deskillingWhat Dhruv witnessed when an AI went up against one of the best diagnosticians he has ever trained alongside, on one of medicine's hardest diagnostic case formats, and why it made him nearly gaspHow Medicare Advantage insurers have turned risk adjustment into a revenue strategy Why the most successful version of physician advocacy will be built around patient needs rather than professional statusWhether medicine can still be a calling after the system has spent years turning it into a job🩺 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
• How Stanford Health Care Is Rethinking What AI Should Actually Do for Clinicians with CIO Dr. Michael Pfeffer 18.06.2026 35นาที

  Dr. Michael Pfeffer is Stanford Healthcare's Chief Information Officer and a practicing hospitalist, which means he builds AI tools in the morning and uses them on patients that afternoon. That combination is rarer than it should be, and it shapes everything about how he thinks.Stanford is one of the most AI-forward health systems in the country. It runs 1,500 software applications, has put generative AI into the hands of its clinicians through ambient documentation and a plain-language chart querying tool called ChatEHR, and has published the outcomes of all of it, including the parts that did not go as expected. Mike's argument is that none of that is the point. Healthcare spends three times more on AI than any other industry, and most of that investment is going toward automating processes that were broken to begin with. Digitizing the way medicine has always been done is not transformation. The real opportunity is redesigning what the encounter itself looks like, offloading guideline-driven busywork to agents that can own it, and building toward a world where the right test is ordered the first time and the right drug is prescribed before the patient leaves the room.In this episode of How I Doctor, Graham sits down with Mike to get into what Stanford has actually built, what the data shows, and what distinguishes a health system that deploys AI responsibly from one that just deploys it. They also get into clinical AI governance, how physicians interact with decision support versus how they should, whether the next generation of trainees is losing its curiosity or still has it, and what Mike's ideal AI-enabled hospital day actually looks like in five years.What You'll Learn in This Episode:What the difference between digitizing and transforming healthcare actually means in practiceWhy healthcare spending more on AI than any other industry may be a sign of lag, not leadershipHow Stanford uses the FURM framework to evaluate every AI applicationWhy the biggest mistake medicine could make with AI is buying a lot of it without understanding the value, and what responsible deployment actually requiresWhy Mike is less worried about AI deskilling the next generation of physicians than most and what he saw on rounds last week that gave him confidence🩺 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
• Meet the Doctor Who Went Anonymous to Say What the Rest of Us Can't: The Story of Dr. Orange 11.06.2026 34นาที

  Dr. Orange is a primary care physician, one year out of residency, practicing somewhere in the United States at a health system she can't name. She posts on TikTok as a talking orange, with her face obscured and her voice altered, because showing up as herself would cost her too much. Her employer might find out. Her patients might lose confidence in her. And after years of training and too much debt, she cannot afford either.What she says from behind that mask is not radical. It is what physicians say to each other in workrooms, in parking lots, in group texts that will never see the light of day. That the job is not what they signed up for. That the administrative burden is crushing. That corporate medicine has turned patient care into customer service. That they feel like children being managed by a system that owns them.She said it anyway. Thousands of people have found her.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Orange for the most candid conversation about the state of medicine you will hear from a physician who is still inside it. They cover the financial trap that keeps early-career doctors locked in jobs they want to leave, the expectation gap that nobody warns you about before you become an attending, what would actually have to change for her to love her job, and why the anonymous fruit salad of healthcare workers she accidentally created online is one of the most honest signals medicine has produced in years.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Why physicians who speak honestly about hating their jobs risk their patients, their employers, and their careers, and what it says about medicine that anonymity is the only safe container for that conversationWhat the first year of attending life actually looks like when residency ends and the full weight of portal messages, non-clinical requirements, and production pressure lands all at onceHow student loan debt and restrictive contracts function as a structural trap that keeps early-career physicians in systems that are making them miserableWhy autonomy, not salary, may be the variable that determines whether the next generation of physicians stays in medicine at all🩺 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
• Moral Injury Is Why The Best Doctors Are Disappearing with Dr. Wendy Dean 04.06.2026 35นาที

  Dr. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist, author, and the co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding and alleviating clinician distress. In 2018, she co-wrote a 500-word op-ed in STAT News that did something rare: it handed an entire profession the language for something most physicians had been carrying alone. The argument was simple and devastating.Physicians aren't burning out.That implies a personal failure of resilience. What's actually happening is moral injury, the damage that accumulates when you are repeatedly forced to act in ways that violate your own moral code.That piece started an international conversation that Wendy has been leading ever since, through her book "If I Betray These Words," her podcast 43cc, and her ongoing research and consulting work with health systems around the world.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Wendy to go deep on what moral injury actually is, why getting the language right matters so much, and what a healthcare system that takes clinician distress seriously would actually need to look like. They cover AI's entry into an already fractured system, the EMR as a cautionary tale the profession is at risk of repeating, and the grief that comes with watching a profession you love get slowly hollowed out.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Why burnout and moral injury are distinct problems that require fundamentally different solutions, and why naming it correctly changes where responsibility sitsWhat it actually feels like to be morally injured, and why the absence of a bid to repair a betrayal is often where the real damage sets inHow physicians are trained to be independent thinkers and then placed in systems that give them no authority, no agency, and all of the responsibilityWhy Wendy believes AI is walking into the same trap as the EMR, and what the liability question nobody in health law has answered yet tells us about where this is headingWhat gives Wendy genuine hope that medicine gets to the other side, and why the grief physicians are carrying right now is also a signal that the fight is not over🩺 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/@offcalldotcomMentioned in this episode:It's all coming togetherAbridge is hosting its first-ever Keynote, live from New York City and streaming globally for the Offcall community. Join Abridge CEO and Founder, Dr. Shiv Rao, for a presentation on the future of AI in healthcare. Register at https://events.abridge.com/keynote
• Now Is Not the Time for Silence. Dr. John Whyte on the AMA, AI, and the Stakes for Physicians Right Now 28.05.2026 31นาที

  Dr. John Whyte is a board-certified internist who has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, policy, media, and technology. He served at the FDA, built a reputation as one of medicine's most trusted public communicators at WebMD, and 10 months ago became CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association, the oldest and largest physician organization in the United States.Whyte came into the role with a candid assessment: the AMA had lost some of its relevance and impact, and needed to become a real force for physicians and patients in Washington again. He's now leading that effort at a moment when the profession is navigating burnout, prior authorization, scope creep, a rapidly shifting AI landscape, and a payment system that fails to make the case for what physicians actually contribute to patient safety and access.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with John to cover what the AMA is focused on right now and why, how AI is already reshaping the way physicians practice whether they're ready or not, and what it means that the efficiency gains from AI tools are largely flowing to health systems rather than back to physicians or patients. They also get into the harder question underneath all of it: who speaks for physicians when the stakes are this high, and what happens to the profession if physicians stay on the sidelines.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Why physician burnout remains at 40% across the profession and above 50% in emergency medicine and OB-GYN, and why the AMA believes it has to be solved at the systems levelHow AI adoption among physicians jumped from 38% to 81% in three years, and why that speed of uptake hasn't translated into more time with patientsWhy the real argument for physician payment is not compensation but patient safety and how the public narrative gets this wrongWhat the AMA is doing on prior authorization and scope creep, and why those are the two issues where physicians are most aligned across specialties🩺 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
• Dr. Rana Awdish Almost Died as a Fellow. Now She's Teaching Doctors How to Heal. 21.05.2026 36นาที

  Dr. 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
• Physician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup 14.05.2026 38นาที

  Dr. 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
• Going Independent Doesn't Mean Going It Alone. Dr. Basil Kahwash on Fixing Referrals and Building Physician Networks 07.05.2026 42นาที

  Most 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
• Restoring Physician Mental Health and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, With Dr. Stefanie Simmons 30.04.2026 38นาที

  Most 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
• Why The Pitt Is the Show Every Doctor Needs Right Now, with Dr. Jeremy Faust 23.04.2026 45นาที

  The 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
• Using AI to Accurately Code and Measure Physician Outcomes, With Solventum’s Dr. Travis Bias 16.04.2026 35นาที

  Most 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
• The AI Conversations Every Physician Should Hear: Highlights from Yann LeCun, Dr. Bob Wachter, and Dr. David Rhew 09.04.2026 28นาที

  AI 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
• The Pay Gap in Medicine Is Real. Dr. Pamela Buchanan Is Done Being Quiet About It 02.04.2026 37นาที

  Dr. 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
• Virtual Neurology at Scale: Raj Narula and Melanie Winningham on How Sevaro Is Transforming Rural Stroke Care 26.03.2026 37นาที

  Dr. 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
• How Medical Misinformation Took Over — and What Doctors Can Do to Take It Back w/ Dr. Geeta Nayyar 19.03.2026 33นาที

  Medical 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
• Inside the First Autonomous AI Prescription Program in America w/ Doctronic CMO Dr. Byron Crowe 12.03.2026 36นาที

  Most physicians see AI as something happening to medicine. Dr. Byron Crowe is one of the few who decided to make it happen himself.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Byron Crowe — internal medicine physician, former Harvard Medical School faculty, and Chief Medical Officer of Doctronic — to discuss the most provocative development in healthcare AI yet: the nation's first state-approved program allowing AI to autonomously renew prescriptions, currently live in Utah.This episode doesn't traffic in hypotheticals. The program is running right now. And the questions it raises are ones every physician is going to have to answer eventually — whether they're ready or not. Who's responsible when AI gets a prescription wrong? Is the current system it's replacing actually any better? And if AI can handle the routine work, what does that mean for the physicians who've been doing it? Byron has thought harder about these questions than almost anyone in medicine. He's the first author on the Society for General Internal Medicine's position statement on generative AI. He's published peer-reviewed research in JAMA on AI's diagnostic capabilities. And now he's running clinical strategy for a company that calls itself your personal AI doctor — and means it.Byron doesn't come to this conversation to sell the technology. He comes to make the case that the status quo — millions of prescription refills processed via portal clicks with minimal physician review — is already broken, and that AI done right, with graduated autonomy, genuine accountability, and clinicians at the center, is an improvement worth taking seriously. It's a conversation that will challenge what you think you know about where medicine is headed and who gets to decide.What You'll LearnWhat "AI-native care" actually means and why Byron argues it's a fundamentally new care model — not just a faster version of telehealthHow Doctronic's graduated autonomy model works in Utah, from full physician review of every refill to eventual full autonomy with retrospective oversightWhy Byron believes not a single doctor will lose their job to AI — and what "doctor reassignment" actually looks like in practiceWhat "careworthiness" means as a moral standard, and why Byron thinks it matters more than any technical benchmarkWhy most health AI companies make the same fatal mistake when entering clinical medicine — and how Doctronic is trying to avoid itWhere Byron draws the hard line on AI autonomy — and the one place he says AI should never act aloneResources & Where to Find ByronByron's LinkedInByron's Substack: Always On CallDoctronic🩺 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
• 99 Ways to Avoid Death: Lessons from Author and ER Physician Dr. Ashely Alker 05.03.2026 32นาที

  Most people spend their entire lives trying not to think about death. Emergency physicians don't have that option.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Ashely Alker an emergency physician, founder of Meaningful Media, and author of 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them.This episode goes somewhere most medical conversations don't. And that's the point.Because death isn't an abstract concept in the emergency department. It's the patient who never documented their wishes and ended up on a ventilator they never wanted. It's the 19-year-old with undiagnosed Marfan syndrome you catch while suturing a hand. It's the lost patients you carry with you forever.Ashely has been thinking about death since her twenties, when she lost her mother and became the de facto medical translator for a family with no one else to turn to. That personal history, combined with years on the front lines of emergency medicine, is what eventually became a book she wrote for the patients who need it most.This episode is an honest conversation about what emergency medicine teaches you about dying and how that changes the way you live.What You'll LearnWhy ER physicians remember their lost patients more vividly than their greatest saves — and what that means for how we process the emotional weight of the workHow Ashlely thinks about the gap between helping people live longer versus helping them live better, and why the ER is the hardest place to close itWhy storytelling is a clinical skill, and how physicians who don't engage with public communication cede the conversation to people with no trainingWhat writing a book about death taught Ashely about being a better doctor and a more intentional human beingResources & Where to Find Ashely99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them — available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and independent bookstores everywhereAshely's WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn🩺 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
• What Will It Take to Actually Build a Quality Healthcare System? NCQA's New CEO Dr. Vivek Garg Has a Plan 26.02.2026 35นาที

  Every quality metric shaping your career, your bonus, and your reputation traces back to one nonprofit most physicians have never thought twice about.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Vivek Garg, the new President and CEO of NCQA - the National Committee for Quality Assurance - and only the second leader in the organization's 36-year history. This episode is unabashedly nerdy. And that's the point.Because the measures you're chasing, the scores you're being judged on, and the bonuses tied to your performance don't come from nowhere. They come from a deliberate two-year long process of evidence review, statistical validation, and independent clinical committee sign-off. It’s a process most physicians have never seen and don't know they can influence.Vivek doesn't come to this conversation to defend the status quo. He's blunt that the current system produces incomplete data, punishes independent practices for lacking the infrastructure of large health systems, and has overused financial incentives as a lever for change. He calls value-based care underappreciated and AI overhyped, and then spends the rest of the conversation explaining exactly where both could actually move the needle.This episode is an honest reckoning with whether we're measuring what actually matters and what it would take to build a system that clinicians trust and patients actually feel.What You'll LearnWhere your HEDIS scores actually come from and the two-year pipeline behind every measure that lands in your workflowWhy the data feeding your quality scores is often incomplete, lagged, and missing critical parts of your patient's clinical pictureHow Goodhart's Law plays out in real clinical practice — and why even well-designed measures can distort the behavior they're trying to assessWhy independent and small practices carry the same reporting burden as large health systems with entire quality departments
• OB-GYN Influencer: How Doctors Can Find Their Social Media Voice and Fight Wellness Misinformation w/ Dr. Fran 19.02.2026 36นาที

  Physicians are making more correcting medical misinformation online than delivering babies.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Fran Haydanek, better known to millions as Paging Dr. Fran, for an unfiltered conversation about medicine in the algorithm era.Fran is a board-certified OB-GYN, residency faculty member, hospital medical director and a physician creator with more than one million followers across TikTok and Instagram. What began as a simple video correcting breastfeeding misinformation during maternity leave has evolved into a full-scale media operation. One that now generates more income than her clinical practice.But this episode isn’t about clicks. It’s about trust.Together, Graham and Fran examine why patients increasingly turn to influencers instead of physicians and why the medical system itself helped create that vacuum. Fran argues that physicians don’t just compete in this digital ecosystem and that they have an obligation to show up in it.This episode isn’t a defense of influencer culture.It’s a reckoning with where patients actually learn about their health and whether physicians are willing to meet them there.What You’ll LearnWhy patients are turning to TikTok for medical advice and how 15-minute visits contribute to the problemWhat it means for medicine when a practicing OB-GYN earns more correcting misinformation than delivering babiesHow religion and politics uniquely fuel misinformation in women’s healthPractical ways any physician can participate in the digital information ecosystemResources & Where to Find Dr. FranWebsite: https://www.pagingdrfran.com/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pagingdrfranInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pagingdrfran