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Carl Byers joins Tom and Christina to unpack what’s actually changing in healthcare as AI moves from hype to real world application. From the “failure of imagination” phase of AI to the reality of investor expectations, Carl shares how he evaluates companies in a market where capital is no longer free and technology is increasingly commoditised. The conversation moves between venture dynamics, dig...

Tom and Christina sit down with AI researcher, Oxford academic and health equity advocate Maxine Mackintosh for a conversation about bias, power and what happens when healthcare innovation grows up. They explore why the era of “sparkly innovation” in the UK has given way to hard questions about evidence and cost-effectiveness, how AI scribes became one of the first technologies clinicians actively...

Graham Walker and Joe Habboushe built MDCalc long before “health tech founder” was a career path. What began in 2005 as a simple way to avoid memorising risk scores has grown into one of the most widely used clinical decision tools in medicine, which is now used by 85% of US clinicians. This conversation explores what it actually takes to build something that lasts in healthcare. They discuss emer...

Daniel Kraft joins Tom and Christina for a conversation that moves from BioBERT to space medicine, from longevity hype to embryo screening ethics, and from full-body MRIs to the future of medical education. Daniel frames AI as a super convergence (slowly, then all at once) where genomics, multimodal data, computational biology and intelligent agents are beginning to connect. The episode explores t...

Stephen Klasko’s career doesn’t follow a straight line. From disc jockey, to OB-GYN, medical school dean, health system CEO, and venture investor, this unconventional arc is what gives him the vantage point to dissect American healthcare not as a critic on the sidelines, but as someone who has run one of the largest academic health systems in the country and tried to change it from the inside. Thi...

For decades, medicine rewarded stability, hierarchy and certainty. Now, a growing subset of clinicians are stepping away from traditional pathways to build companies, invest in startups and reshape healthcare from the inside. Dr Tom and Christina Farr, sit down with Rebecca Mitchell to unpack what’s changed. From “burning the boats” and letting medical licenses expire, to building venture firms po...

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