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Send us Fan Mail Eighty-one percent of physicians are already using AI in practice, more than double the rate from just three years ago. The tools are moving faster than the rules, and nobody has agreed on who gets to write them. Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, joins hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll to discuss why the medical community needs to lead the conversati...

Send us Fan Mail Eighty-one percent of physicians are already using AI in practice, more than double the rate from just three years ago. The tools are moving faster than the rules, and nobody has agreed on who gets to write them. Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, joins hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll to discuss why the medical community needs to lead the conversati...

Send us Fan Mail There are very few cures for cancers that have already spread. So what does a good outcome actually look like? In this clip from our episode “How Targeted Radiotherapy Is Changing Cancer Care”, host David E. Williams and John Babich, Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics, break down what extending life with quality really means in cancer care, and...

Send us Fan Mail For decades, cancer treatment has rested on three pillars: surgery, chemotherapy, and external beam radiation. A fourth is now taking shape, and it is drawing billions in investment from some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. John Babich, Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics, joins host David E. Williams to explain how targeted...

Send us Fan Mail The COVID-19 pandemic proved vaccine platforms can move at unprecedented speed. It also revealed how dangerously narrow the world's response really was, built almost entirely on a single technology. Dr. Dan Barouch and Kris Brown, Co-Founders of Vector Sciences, join host David E. Williams to discuss why durable pandemic preparedness depends on having multiple vaccine platfor...

Send us Fan Mail People trust their doctor. They do not trust the bill they get afterward. In this clip from our episode “Why Healthcare Prices Are Like Fight Club”, host John Driscoll and Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, break down why pricing transparency, not just lower prices, was the real reason Cost Plus Drugs earned the trust of patients across the country. Listen to the full epis...

Send us Fan Mail Nobody at the pharmacy counter knows the real price of their medication, and almost nobody in the system actually wants them to. Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, joins host John Driscoll on CareTalk to discuss why pharmacy benefit managers control 85% of drug formularies in this country, how spread pricing quietly inflates the cost of everything from generics to hip repl...

Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 drugs were designed for weight loss. Now they may be showing up in cancer research in a way nobody expected. In this clip from our episode “The Business & Science Behind the GLP-1 Boom”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll break down what the 2026 ASCO annual meeting revealed about GLP-1s and their potential to reduce cancer progression in lung, breast, colorectal,...

Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 drugs have produced some of the most consistent weight loss results medicine has ever seen. The business of actually getting them to patients is a different story entirely. David E. Williams, President of Health Business Group, and John Driscoll, Chairman of UConn Health, break down the CVS Caremark formulary reversal on CareTalk, examining what it reveals about the economic...

Send us Fan Mail Six million healthcare workers are missing today. By 2030, that number reaches 10 million. No amount of training will ever close that gap. In this clip from our episode “Is AI the New Dr. Google?”, host David E. Williams and Bertalan Mesko, Director of the Medical Futurist Institute, break down why the healthcare worker shortage is a mathematical problem that only advanced technol...

Send us Fan Mail The World Health Organization projects a global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030. No training pipeline can close that gap. The only path forward runs through technology. Dr. Bertalan Meskó, Founder & Director of the Medical Futurist Institute, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why digital health is first and foremost a cultural transformation rather than...

Send us Fan Mail The liver is the only organ in the body that can release stored glucose to prevent low blood sugar. So why has injected insulin never been able to reach it? In this clip from our episode “Finding a Solution for GLP-1 Side Effects”, host David E. Williams and Bob Geho, Founder and CEO of Diasome, break down the biological gap at the heart of diabetes treatment and how a father&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, one in five adults with Type 1 diabetes experiences a dangerous drop in blood sugar that renders them unable to treat themselves. These severe hypoglycemic events are still happening, even though many patients now use continuous glucose monitors and automated insulin pumps. Why has this trade-off between long-term A1C control and dangerous sugar crashes persisted for o...

Send us Fan Mail What if the tools patients use between therapy sessions mattered more than the sessions themselves? In this clip from our episode “Fixing the Access Crisis In Mental Health”, host John Driscoll and Mark Frank, Co-Founder and CEO of SonderMind, break down how a fully integrated platform combining 80 digital interventions with an AI coach is producing outcomes up to 275% better than...

Send us Fan Mail American hospitals now spend nearly $2 on administrative overhead for every dollar that touches direct patient care. Insurers earn billions in float by sitting on claims for weeks, providers borrow money just to stay liquid, and patients open bills for visits they barely remember. Don Peterson, Founder and CEO of PIM Health, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why healthcare&a...

Send us Fan Mail More than 160 million Americans live in federally designated mental health provider shortage areas. Even those with insurance often spend months searching for a therapist who takes their plan and has availability. Mark Frank, Co-Founder and CEO of SonderMind, joins host John Driscoll to discuss why fixing the provider infrastructure had to come before solving patient access, and h...

Send us Fan Mail For most small businesses, health insurance is their second or third largest expense. And they usually find out what it's going to cost them two to three weeks before renewal. In this clip from our episode “Why Health Insurance Needs Transparency”, host John Driscoll and Ty Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health, break down why unpredictable premium increases make it nearly...

Send us Fan Mail Nearly half of all Americans get their health insurance through a small business. Most of those businesses have no idea why their premiums go up every year and no real power to do anything about it. Ty Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health, joins host John Driscoll to discuss why legacy insurers benefit from keeping small businesses in the dark on costs, and how rebuilding the...

Send us Fan Mail For years, hospitals managing value-based contracts have been doing so with one hand tied behind their back, defaulting to Medicare logic because that was the only playbook precise enough to follow. In this clip from our episode “Why Value-Based Care Is Finally Hitting Its Tipping Point”, host David E. Williams and David Snow, Chairman & CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVI...

Send us Fan Mail For decades, value-based care has been healthcare's promised future. Most health systems have stayed in upside-only arrangements, and the data infrastructure needed to manage real risk has never quite caught up to the ambition. That may finally be changing. David Snow, Chairman & CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA business, joins host David E. Williams to discuss wh...

Send us Fan Mail Is it easier to change the medical establishment from the inside or the outside? In this clip from our episode "MAHA Split Over New Surgeon General," hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll break down what separated Casey Means from Nicole Saphier, and why the switch from outsider advocate to credentialed insider may say everything about how health reform actually gets...

Send us Fan Mail The collapse of Dr. Casey Means’ nomination this week has sent shockwaves through the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. While the tech world debates AI, healthcare is debating the “Saphier Pivot,” the Trump administration’s sudden shift from a radical MAHA outsider to a credentialed Fox News regular. With the Surgeon General’s office at a crossroads, we have to ask: is...

Send us Fan Mail Is American healthcare collapsing? In this clip from our episode "How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System," host David E. Williams and Dr. Robert Pearl, Author of ChatGPT MD, break down why the current system is financially unsustainable and why physicians have never had the tools to fight back. Until now. Listen to the full episode here 🎙️⚕️ABOUT DR. ROBERT PEA...

Send us Fan Mail American employers now spend over $25,000 a year to cover a single family, and chronic disease is driving the system toward collapse. Yet medicine is still built around a doctor's office visit every three to four months. Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, Stanford professor, and author of ChatGPT MD, joins host David E. Williams to make the case tha...

Send us Fan Mail Is the era of just managing Parkinson's symptoms finally coming to an end? In this clip from our episode “How AI Is Helping The Fight Against Parkinson’s”, host David E. Williams and guest Gene Mack, CEO of Gain Therapeutics, share why the early signals from their lead drug candidate are too compelling to ignore. Listen to the full episode here 🎙️⚕️ABOUT GENE MACK Gene Mack s...