Dear Healthcare, It's You

SUBSCRIBE NOW - Season 2 coming soon! In Episode 13, hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai close out Season 1 of the podcast by talking through Elisha's insights on why American Healthcare is failing all of us, regardless of insurance coverage, location, or socio-economic standing.   His assessment is built from his personal experiences we've gone through this season: Medical school, hi...

In Episode 12 hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai dive into the process of lobbying in the United States and how it plays a role in legislation changes that specifically can affect healthcare options in America. Hear about the final events that led to legislation being passed finally requiring health insurance providers to cover telemedicine services after Elisha and his team had been fightin...

In Episode 11 hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai take a step aside to talk about Elisha’s personal suffering during the early years of building a telehealth business (a new innovation for the US healthcare system at the time). Through several initial years of not getting paid for their telemedicine services, Elisha and his partners encountered one hurdle after another. Eventually, his partne...

In Episode 10, Dr. Elisha Yaghmai continues telling the story of the history of Telemedicine in America and the role he played in it. In episode 9, Elisha shared how he came up with the idea of using untapped technology to solve access to healthcare in rural communities.  But health insurance blocked their progress, refusing to offer coverage (and thus payment) again, and again, and again.  After...

In this episode, Dr. Elisha Yaghmai tells the story of how he came up with the idea for using telehealth to solve some of the systemic issues he’d encountered in rural communities in theory remedying healthcare disparities for those communities. In 2024 we’re all familiar with virtual doctor appointments and other online primary care services. Many of us have utilized these services and they’ve be...

In this episode, Elisha and Jo discuss the systemic issues in American Healthcare that brought Elisha to his first major experience of professional burnout. While still working in Seattle, Elisha started to experience more and more fatigue and psychological corrosion from working as a physician in a hospital setting. He doesn’t simply attribute his burnout to the seemingly unceasing work schedule...

In this episode, Elisha moves to Seattle to work as a hospitalist in a multi-hospital system — the complete opposite end of the spectrum of care from what he had just been experiencing as a hospitalist in a rural hospital in small-town Kansas.  In his role in Seattle, Elisha encounters two more major systemic flaws in the medical system: 1. Patients being subjected to continued treatment beyond wh...

In this episode, we hear from Elisha about his move to a small rural community in Kansas to become the town’s hospitalist. While there, Elisha gets to exercise his medical skill autonomy — for better or worse — where there are few of the resources that larger city hospitals have.  Because the hospital in Parsons, Kan. has so few staff physicians and clinical resources, Elisha is forced to lean on...

In this episode, we hear from Elisha about what drove him to switch residencies midway through his first residency.  Elisha had an eye-opening experience when a rotation of residents from another program visited and they had a clear understanding of a patient issue with additional knowledge that Elisha didn’t have at the time— even after giving his best efforts to self-direct and self-educate cons...

NEW EPISODES WEEKLY - SUBSCRIBE NOW Dear Healthcare, It's You: A new podcast about America’s broken healthcare system Episode 4: In this episode, co-hosts Jo O'Hanlon and internal medicine physician Dr. Elisha Yaghmai continue with Elisha’s story through his medical education. In his first year of his (first…) residency in Wichita, Kansas, Elisha encounters two opposing influences on his e...

NEW EPISODES WEEKLY - SUBSCRIBE NOW Dear Healthcare, It's You: A new podcast about U.S. Healthcare Episode 3: We continue to dive into the bowels of the American Healthcare system and its institutions.  In the third episode of the ‘Dear Healthcare, It’s You’ podcast, co-hosts Jo O'Hanlon and internal medicine physician Dr. Elisha Yaghmai continue with Elisha’s story through his medical edu...

The healthcare system in America is broken in so many more ways than you know. In the second episode of the ‘Dear Healthcare, It’s You’ podcast, Cohosts Dr. Elisha Yaghmai and Jo O’Hanlon continue with Elisha’s story through his medical education. Elisha is finally able to transfer out of Tulane University after his medical school education was halted by Hurricane Katrina (and by backroom politics...

Dive into the crumbling American healthcare system and take a look under the (very dusty) rug of its infrastructure. What is happening in our healthcare system? Why is it failing? Who is profiting from it? What can we do to enact change to make it better? Join cohosts internal medicine physician, Doctor Elisha Yaghmai, M.D., & independent journalist, Jo O’Hanlon, as they search for answers. In...

SEASON 1 starts January 30, 2024! America's Healthcare system is broken. We all know that much.  ‘Dear Healthcare, It’s You’ is a new podcast setting out to investigate the U.S. healthcare system and its medical institutions in order to take a closer look and help the American public take a deeper look into what really goes on in the world of healthcare.  The conversation in the U.S. is usuall...