A Different Perspective with Dr Zaid Al-Fagih: How AI Can Make Medicine More Human

About this episode

Nick talks to Dr Zaid Al-Fagih about how AI can enhance the human aspect of medicine and improve healthcare delivery.

This week Nick talks to Dr Zaid Al-fagih Zaid is Founder and CEO of Rhazes AI , an award-winning AI-powered virtual assistant designed to transform clinical workflows. Drawing on his experience as an NHS doctor and humanitarian first responder, he founded Rhazes AI to help clinicians improve productivity, reduce errors and burnout, and strengthen patient care. A graduate of Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, Dr Al-Fagih combines expertise in medicine, policy, and AI, and has published research on the application of emerging technologies in healthcare. Nick and Zaid discuss Zaid’s journey from NHS doctor to founding Rhazes AI, an AI-powered clinical assistant designed to reduce administrative burdens, improve diagnostic support, and give doctors more time with patients. They explore the challenges facing modern healthcare, including clinician burnout, inefficient workflows, regulatory barriers, and slow technology adoption, while examining how AI can transform healthcare delivery without replacing human judgement. The conversation also covers entrepreneurship, fundraising, healthcare innovation in the UK versus the US and Gulf region, and Zaid’s vision for a…

People in this episode

Host: Nick

Guest: Dr Zaid Al-Fagih

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• clinical workflows
• physician burnout
• healthcare innovation
• entrepreneurship
• technology adoption

Keywords

• AI
• medicine
• healthcare
• Rhazes AI
• clinician productivity
• diagnostic support
• entrepreneurship
• NHS
• burnout

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rhazes AI, Imperial College London, University of Oxford

Books & works: David Copperfield, Guns, Germs and Steel, al nahr al khalid - eternal river, Don't Worry be Happy

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