How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker

A few weeks ago, Graham sat down with Dr. Wendy Dean , co-founder of Moral Injury in Healthcare, for one of his favorite conversations this show has ever recorded. It's the kind of episode that changes how you talk about your own job. That's why this week, How I Doctor is doing something new: handing the feed over to Wendy's own show, 43cc , which she co-hosts with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Matt Rams...

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...

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...

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 gener...

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 d...

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'...

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 Stat...

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 hosp...

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 l...

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 b...

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...

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 cult...

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 O...

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 listener...

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?...

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 si...

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 med...

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 healthcar...

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 p...

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...

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 Haydane k , 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 an...

Yann LeCun is one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence. Alex LeBrun is the founder of Nabla and newly announced CEO of AMI Labs , a new AI research company he and Yann are building around a bold idea: large language models aren’t enough for medicine. In this special episode of How I Doctor , Dr. Graham Walker sits down in-person with Alex and Yann to explore the next frontier...

Primary care sits at the center of medicine and yet no one seems willing to truly own it. In this episode of How I Doctor , Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Lisa Rosenbaum , cardiologist and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine , for a wide-ranging conversation about why primary care remains both indispensable and persistently undervalued. 🎧 Before you...

AI has arrived in medicine faster than anyone expected, but speed doesn’t guarantee wisdom. In this episode of How I Doctor , Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Robert Wachter , chair of medicine at UCSF and one of healthcare’s most trusted voices on technology, to unpack what physicians are getting wrong about AI. Drawing from his new book A Giant Leap , Bob offers a rare, grounded perspective:...

Medicine is full of people doing the right thing inside systems that reward the wrong work. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Shikha Jain, a hematologist-oncologist, professor, and founder of Women in Medicine, to discuss why some of the most essential work in medicine happens after hours, off the clock, and without recognition - especially fo...