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Physician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup
May 14, 2026
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Going Independent Doesn't Mean Going It Alone. Dr. Basil Kahwash on Fixing Referrals and Building Physician Networks
May 7, 2026
42m 12s
Restoring Physician Mental Health and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, With Dr. Stefanie Simmons
Apr 30, 2026
38m 21s
Why The Pitt Is the Show Every Doctor Needs Right Now, with Dr. Jeremy Faust
Apr 23, 2026
45m 07s
Using AI to Accurately Code and Measure Physician Outcomes, With Solventum’s Dr. Travis Bias
Apr 16, 2026
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| 5/14/26 |  Physician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup | 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 least one clinician co-founder. John did not just write that paper. He built a fund around it.In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with John to dig into what it actually takes to build a health tech company worth funding. They walk through John's Seven Ps framework for evaluating startups, what makes a pitch compelling versus an instant red flag, and why the barrier to entry for physician-founders has never been lower thanks to AI.What You'll Learn in This Episode:The Seven Ps framework John uses to evaluate every health tech company he considers fundingWhat kills a pitch immediately and what signals a founder has actually done their homeworkWhy AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for physician-founders and what that changes about building a company todayHow to think about the principal-agent problem when selling into health systemsWhy ambient AI tools matter more for physician burnout than the time savings data alone suggestsWhat John learned about scalable, practical problem solving from practicing in resource-poor clinical environmentsWhat winning actually looks like and why it is about more than financial🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 5/7/26 |  Going Independent Doesn't Mean Going It Alone. Dr. Basil Kahwash on Fixing Referrals and Building Physician Networks✨ | referral systemindependent practice+3 | Dr. Basil Kahwash | VanderbiltOffcall | Columbus, Ohiooffcall.com/manifesto | referralsindependent physicians+3 | — | 42m 12s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Restoring Physician Mental Health and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, With Dr. Stefanie Simmons✨ | physician mental healthhealthcare systems+4 | Dr. Stefanie Simmons | Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' FoundationNew York Presbyterian | Ann Arbor, Michigan | physician mental healthDr. Lorna Breen+7 | — | 38m 21s | |
| 4/23/26 |  Why The Pitt Is the Show Every Doctor Needs Right Now, with Dr. Jeremy Faust✨ | TV show impact on medicinephysician grief+4 | Dr. Jeremy Faust | Brigham and Women's HospitalMedPage Today+1 | — | The Pittphysician grief+5 | — | 45m 07s | |
| 4/16/26 |  Using AI to Accurately Code and Measure Physician Outcomes, With Solventum’s Dr. Travis Bias✨ | AI in healthcareclinical documentation+3 | Dr. Travis Bias | SolventumHealth Information Systems | U.S.Kenya+1 | AI documentationphysician payment+3 | — | 35m 48s | |
| 4/9/26 | The AI Conversations Every Physician Should Hear: Highlights from Yann LeCun, Dr. Bob Wachter, and Dr. David Rhew✨ | AI in healthcarephysician support+3 | Yann LeCunDr. Bob Wachter+1 | MetaAMI+4 | — | AIhealthcare+6 | — | 28m 07s | |
| 4/2/26 |  The Pay Gap in Medicine Is Real. Dr. Pamela Buchanan Is Done Being Quiet About It✨ | pay gapmedicine+3 | Dr. Pamela Buchanan | Melanated Medicine | — | pay transparencyBlack women physicians+3 | — | 37m 54s | |
| 3/26/26 |  Virtual Neurology at Scale: Raj Narula and Melanie Winningham on How Sevaro Is Transforming Rural Stroke Care✨ | telemedicinestroke care+3 | Dr. Raj NarulaDr. Melanie Winningham | SevaroVirginia | — | stroke caretelemedicine+4 | — | 37m 37s | |
| 3/19/26 |  How Medical Misinformation Took Over — and What Doctors Can Do to Take It Back w/ Dr. Geeta Nayyar✨ | medical misinformationhealth tech+3 | Dr. Geeta Nayyar | SalesforceAT&T+2 | — | medical misinformationhealth tech+3 | — | 33m 03s | |
| 3/12/26 |  Inside the First Autonomous AI Prescription Program in America w/ Doctronic CMO Dr. Byron Crowe✨ | AI in healthcareautonomous prescriptions+3 | Dr. Byron Crowe | DoctronicHarvard Medical School+2 | Utah | AI prescriptionshealthcare AI+5 | — | 36m 46s | |
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| 3/5/26 |  99 Ways to Avoid Death: Lessons from Author and ER Physician Dr. Ashely Alker✨ | deathemergency medicine+3 | Dr. Ashely Alker | Meaningful Media99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them | — | emergency physiciandeath+3 | — | 32m 59s | |
| 2/26/26 |  What Will It Take to Actually Build a Quality Healthcare System? NCQA's New CEO Dr. Vivek Garg Has a Plan | 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. This episode is unabashedly nerdy. And that's the point.Because the measures you're chasing, the scores you're being judged on, and the bonuses tied to your performance don't come from nowhere. They come from a deliberate two-year long process of evidence review, statistical validation, and independent clinical committee sign-off. It’s a process most physicians have never seen and don't know they can influence.Vivek doesn't come to this conversation to defend the status quo. He's blunt that the current system produces incomplete data, punishes independent practices for lacking the infrastructure of large health systems, and has overused financial incentives as a lever for change. He calls value-based care underappreciated and AI overhyped, and then spends the rest of the conversation explaining exactly where both could actually move the needle.This episode is an honest reckoning with whether we're measuring what actually matters and what it would take to build a system that clinicians trust and patients actually feel.What You'll LearnWhere your HEDIS scores actually come from and the two-year pipeline behind every measure that lands in your workflowWhy the data feeding your quality scores is often incomplete, lagged, and missing critical parts of your patient's clinical pictureHow Goodhart's Law plays out in real clinical practice — and why even well-designed measures can distort the behavior they're trying to assessWhy independent and small practices carry the same reporting burden as large health systems with entire quality departments | — | ||||||
| 2/19/26 |  OB-GYN Influencer: How Doctors Can Find Their Social Media Voice and Fight Wellness Misinformation w/ Dr. Fran | 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 Haydanek, 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 and a physician creator with more than one million followers across TikTok and Instagram. What began as a simple video correcting breastfeeding misinformation during maternity leave has evolved into a full-scale media operation. One that now generates more income than her clinical practice.But this episode isn’t about clicks. It’s about trust.Together, Graham and Fran examine why patients increasingly turn to influencers instead of physicians and why the medical system itself helped create that vacuum. Fran argues that physicians don’t just compete in this digital ecosystem and that they have an obligation to show up in it.This episode isn’t a defense of influencer culture.It’s a reckoning with where patients actually learn about their health and whether physicians are willing to meet them there.What You’ll LearnWhy patients are turning to TikTok for medical advice and how 15-minute visits contribute to the problemWhat it means for medicine when a practicing OB-GYN earns more correcting misinformation than delivering babiesHow religion and politics uniquely fuel misinformation in women’s healthPractical ways any physician can participate in the digital information ecosystemResources & Where to Find Dr. FranWebsite: https://www.pagingdrfran.com/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pagingdrfranInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pagingdrfran | — | ||||||
| 2/12/26 |  Move Over LLMS! AI Legends Yann LeCun and Alex LeBrun Debut AMI Labs' Bold Ambitions for World Models in Healthcare | 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 of AI in healthcare - world models. While today’s AI systems excel at predicting the next word, Yann argues that real clinical intelligence requires something deeper: models that can imagine, simulate, and plan.From the limitations of LLMs in high-stakes environments to the concept of building a “patient model” that can predict the consequences of treatment decisions, this episode dives into what it would actually take to build AI that reasons more like a physician. They discuss why documentation was the first breakthrough use case, how 80% accuracy fails in clinical settings, and why reliability, and not hype, will determine who wins in healthcare AI.This isn’t about replacing doctors. It’s about amplifying them.If AI is going to meaningfully change medicine, it won’t be through better chatbots. It will be through systems that understand the world.Watch or Listen🎥 Watch the full video conversation now — exclusively on https://www.offcall.com/learn/podcast/ai-world-models-medicine-yann-lecun-alex-lebrun🔊 Or stream the audio version on your favorite podcast platform.What You’ll LearnHow predicting the next word isn’t the same as clinical reasoning and where LLMs fall short in medicine.What “world models” are and how they differ fundamentally from today’s large language models.Why 80% accuracy isn’t acceptable in healthcare and what reliability really means in clinical AI.Why medical coding may be one of the next frontiers for AI in clinical workflows.How AI assistants could amplify doctors the way a research lab amplifies a professor, by making clinicians smarter, not obsolete.🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  The Crisis in Primary Care No One Wants to Own with NEJM’s Lisa Rosenbaum, MD | 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 go any further: If this conversation resonates, make sure you also listen to Lisa’s excellent NEJM podcast, Not Otherwise Specified. It’s one of the most honest, intellectually rigorous explorations of modern medicine and this past season focuses deeply on primary care.Lisa has spent the past year reporting on primary care across the country, and what she uncovers isn’t a story about technology gaps or workforce shortages. It’s a story about culture. About respect. About responsibility. Together, Graham and Lisa explore how modern incentives have quietly shifted medicine away from ownership - of patients, of decisions, and of outcomes - and why primary care has absorbed the consequences more than any other specialty.They dig into uncomfortable but essential questions:Why is the specialty that knows patients best paid and respected the least?How did “referral culture” replace continuity?And what happens to trust between doctors, and between doctors and patients when no one is clearly responsible anymore?Lisa argues that the crisis in primary care is not inevitable, and not intractable but only if medicine is willing to confront its own values.This episode isn’t about nostalgia.It’s about deciding what kind of profession medicine wants to be.What You’ll LearnWhy the crisis in primary care is fundamentally about respect and ownership, not technologyHow modern systems discourage physicians from fully “owning” their patientsThe hidden costs of referral culture and fragmented responsibilityWhy restoring autonomy may be essential to saving primary careWhat gives Lisa hope—and why cultural change is still possible in medicineResources & Where to Find LisaLisa Rosenbaum, MD – National Correspondent, New England Journal of MedicineNot Otherwise Specified (NEJM Podcast)🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  What Doctors Get Wrong About AI with Robert Wachter, MD | 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: neither hype nor fear, but informed optimism. Graham and Bob explore de-skilling, trust, medical education, workflow realities, regulation, and the very human question of what happens when clinicians start relying on machines that may eventually outperform them.This is a conversation for doctors who are already using AI, and those who are uneasy about what comes next. Not a manifesto, but a clear-eyed guide to thinking better about AI before it reshapes medicine for us.What You’ll LearnWhy AI can both improve clinical judgment and quietly erode core physician skills at the same time.What AI means for medical education, training, and the future of clinical reasoning.Why trust in AI systems may arrive sooner than we expect, and why that’s both rational and risky.How health systems should think about regulation, guardrails, and local accountability.🔗 Resources & Further ReadingA Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What It Means for Our FutureRobert Wachter on SubstackRobert Wachter, MD – UCSF Faculty PagePrevious Book: The Digital Doctor🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  Fix the System, Not the Women: Shikha Jain on Why Medicine Is Failing Female Physicians | 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 for women physicians.Shikha makes a clear case for why physician distress isn’t a resilience problem, a time-management issue, or a pipeline failure. It’s a systems problem. From RVU-based compensation models that ignore invisible labor, to unpaid committee work that never counts toward promotion, to insurance barriers that put doctors in the crosshairs while profits flow elsewhere, she explains how modern healthcare quietly extracts more from physicians while valuing them less.Together, Graham and Shikha explore how gender expectations shape leadership, why women physicians are “voluntold” into uncompensated work, and how stereotypes around empathy and agreeableness create double standards that follow doctors from the clinic to the boardroom. The conversation closes with practical guidance for change: how physicians can set boundaries without guilt, how institutions can measure the work that actually matters, and how male allies can show up in ways that help rather than harm.This episode isn’t about blaming individuals. It’s about fixing the system so doctors can keep doing the work that brought them to medicine in the first place.What You’ll LearnWhy physician burnout is a structural failure, not a personal oneHow RVU-based compensation undervalues real clinical and cognitive workThe hidden, uncompensated labor disproportionately carried by women physiciansPractical ways physicians and allies can drive meaningful changeLearn More About Shikha & Women in MedicineDr. Shikha Jain: https://shikhajainmd.comWomen in Medicine: https://www.wimedicine.orgWomen in Medicine Summit September 24-26, 2026: https://www.wimedicine.org/summitOncology Overdrive Podcast: https://oncologyoverdrive.com🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  ER Doctor Running for Congress Diagnoses How to Fix the U.S. Healthcare System, with Dr. Tim Peck | Tim Peck has spent his career practicing medicine where the system is most fragile. A Harvard-trained emergency physician, healthcare entrepreneur, and frontline clinician in rural America, Tim has worked inside nursing homes, healthcare deserts, and communities shaped by the opioid crisis—places where delays, payment failures, and policy decisions have immediate consequences.In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Tim to explore what emergency medicine teaches about leadership, systems failure, and responsibility beyond the bedside. Tim shares why ER doctors are uniquely trained to lead in chaos, how seeing patients too late distorts outcomes, and what he learned by embedding himself in the environments that generate avoidable hospitalizations.The conversation moves beyond ideology into the mechanics of why U.S. healthcare breaks down—from fee-for-service incentives and uninsured rural populations to ambulance shortages and hospital closures that happen quietly, then all at once.This is not a political debate or a campaign pitch. It’s a clinician’s diagnosis of a system under strain—and a candid discussion of what it would take to fix it.What You’ll LearnWhy emergency medicine is one of the most effective forms of leadership trainingWhat changes when doctors see patients earlier instead of downstream in crisisHow rural healthcare deserts form—and what they look like in real timeWhy nursing homes and opioid care expose the deepest system failuresHow payment models shape clinical behavior more than most physicians realize🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 1/8/26 |  Reimagining the Future of Chronic Disease Care, With Cadence CMO Eve Cunningham, MD | Eve Cunningham has spent her career navigating the hard edges of modern medicine from delivering babies and performing gynecologic surgery to leading large health system initiatives and now serving as Chief Medical Officer at Cadence. Along the way, she’s seen firsthand why chronic disease care continues to fail patients despite more data, more technology, and more dashboards than ever before.In this episode of How I Doctor, Graham Walker sits down with Eve to unpack why clinic-based, episodic care is fundamentally mismatched to conditions like heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension. She explains why early efforts at remote patient monitoring fell flat, how change management and not technology has always been the real barrier, and why most health systems struggle to turn insight into action.The conversation moves from the realities of governance-heavy decision-making and physician burnout to what it actually takes to manage patients upstream before they land back in the ICU. Eve also shares the deeply personal connection that drives her work, including how her father’s experience with chronic illness shaped her view of what patients truly need.This is not a tech demo or a sales pitch. It’s a candid discussion about redesigning chronic disease care in a way that works for patients, clinicians, and the realities of modern medicine.What You’ll LearnWhy episodic, visit-based medicine is structurally incapable of managing chronic diseaseWhat early remote patient monitoring efforts got wrong and what has finally made them workHow change management and incentives matter more than technology aloneWhy health systems struggle to act on data, even when the answers are obviousWhat proactive, upstream care looks like when someone is actually accountable🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 1/1/26 |  Where AI in Medicine Is Actually Headed, with Microsoft’s CMO David Rhew | David Rhew has spent his career at the intersection of frontline medicine and cutting-edge technology. An infectious disease physician by training and now Global Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, David brings a rare perspective shaped by decades of clinical work, health system leadership, and early research on AI in healthcare.In this episode of How I Doctor, Graham Walker sits down with David to unpack where AI in medicine is actually headed and why so many clinicians feel frustrated despite using these tools every day. David explains why physicians aren’t afraid of AI itself, but of poorly designed systems that remove judgment, overload workflows, and fail to reflect how medicine really works.From agentic AI and ambient documentation to population screening, risk stratification, and resource allocation, the conversation moves beyond buzzwords into the real mechanics of how AI can support better care.David makes the case that AI’s true promise is helping clinicians practice at the top of their license, identify disease earlier, and redesign care around human decision-making rather than administrative burden.This is not a futurist thought experiment or a vendor pitch. It’s a grounded, systems-level look at how AI could meaningfully improve medicine.Explore the Data📊 Want to see how your peers are actually using AI today? Download Offcall’s 2025 Physicians AI Report, featuring insights from over 1,000 physicians on daily AI use, adoption gaps, and what doctors really want from these tools:👉 https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com/What You’ll LearnWhy the biggest failure of healthcare AI isn’t the technology itself, but how it’s measured, implemented, and governedHow agentic AI with multiple models working together on discrete tasks can outperform single “super models” in complex clinical problemsWhy ambient documentation succeeded by addressing burnout and patient experience, not productivity metricsHow AI-enabled screening and risk stratification can identify high-risk patients long before symptoms appearWhat skills physicians will need in the next decade to apply AI responsibly without losing clinical judgment🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
| 12/25/25 |  Mark Cuban: How I’d Reform Healthcare If I Were in Charge (Re-Release) | Merry Christmas! Today we are re-releasing one of our favorite episode of the year. We'll be back next week with a brand new interview to kickoff 2026. Mark Cuban is a business mogul, the “Shark” every entrepreneur wants to make a deal with, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and, most recently, an online pharmacy CEO. In 2022, Mark co-founded Cost Plus Drugs with the goal of lowering prescription drug prices. The direct-to-consumer company makes generic drugs affordable by cutting pharmacy benefit managers out of the distribution chain. But, once Mark starts talking about tackling the pharmaceutical market, you get the sense he has his sights set on an even bigger goal: reforming the healthcare system at large.Offcall co-founder Graham Walker recently got the chance to interview Mark on How I Doctor, a podcast that explores the lives and careers of physicians who are practicing medicine differently. Mark, of course, is not a physician. But, as Graham notes, “I'm talking to him because I think he actually gives a damn about healthcare, and more importantly, he's doing something about it.”Mark pulls no punches in this episode, and frames American healthcare as a David- and Goliath-style fight between good and bad actors.Physicians are on the good team: “I happen to be a fan of people who save lives and make other people feel better, you know? Call me crazy.”Who’s on the bad team? Anyone trying to game the system and extract money from it for their own benefit — insurance companies, hospitals, private equity firms, and others. “In healthcare, that $4.9 trillion wherever anybody can arbitrage whatever they can out of the system, that's exactly what they are going to do.”With clarity of conviction and a hard-charging spirit, Mark shares his vision for how to fix healthcare.🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a movement! Join today!https://www.offcall.com/For a full transcript of this episode click HEREhttps://www.offcall.com/learn/podcast/mark-cuban-interview-how-shark-tank-star-and-cost-plus-drugs-ceo-would-fix-healthcareFind all episodes of How I Doctor at offcall.com/podcast or subscribe on your favorite podcast player at https://episodes.fm/1767429315.In this episode, Graham and Mark discuss:04:26 Expanding Medical School Enrollment09:33 Insurance Plan Designs16:27 Insurance Company Tactics20:45 Negotiation Loopholes and Legal Tangles28:04 Healthcare Spending34:53 Transparency and Trust Drive Growth43:37 Unfair Broker Fees49:53 Profitability in Specialized Medical Services55:08 Future of AI-Assisted Healthcare👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com✉️ Get our On/Offcall email newsletter: https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe🟧 Follow Offcall:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcomMentioned in this episode:This Episode is Sponsored by AbridgeAbridge is the leading AI platform that drafts structured, clinically useful notes at the point of conversationAbridge Sponsor | — | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  Eric Topol on Why Doctors Shouldn’t Fear AI — And How It Could Finally Fix Our Broken System | Dr. Eric Topol is one of the most influential voices in modern medicine. Founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of Deep Medicine and Super Agers, Eric has spent decades interrogating medical dogma, calling out hype, and pushing the profession toward evidence, prevention, and humanity.Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Eric for a candid conversation about why physicians shouldn’t fear AI and why when used correctly, it may be one of the most powerful tools we’ve ever had to reduce errors, restore trust, and shift medicine from late-stage treatment to true prevention. From diagnostic error and physician burnout to immune aging, GLP-1s, personalized risk prediction, and the limits of randomized trials, this episode is both a reality check and a roadmap. Eric makes the case that AI’s greatest promise isn’t automation, but rather it’s the ability to see what humans never could, identify risk earlier, and finally decouple aging from chronic disease.This isn’t a hype cycle conversation. It’s a grounded, evidence-based look at how AI could help fix what’s broken in medicine if physicians lead the way.Explore the Data📊 Want to see how your peers are actually using AI today? Download Offcall’s 2025 Physicians AI Report, featuring insights from over 1,000 physicians on daily AI use, adoption gaps, and what doctors really want from these tools:👉 https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com/What You’ll LearnWhy Eric Topol believes doctors shouldn’t fear AI and why holding it to an impossible standard may be harming patientsHow AI could dramatically reduce diagnostic error and support better clinical judgmentWhy prevention has failed historically and how AI finally makes it possible at scaleThe difference between AI hype and evidence-backed breakthroughs physicians should actually care aboutHow personalized, data-rich medicine may reshape trials, training, and the future role of the physician🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom Mentioned in this episode:This Episode is Sponsored by AbridgeAbridge is the leading AI platform that drafts structured, clinically useful notes at the point of conversationAbridge Sponsor | — | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | What Doctors Really Think About AI: Here Are the Surprising Findings From Offcall’s 2025 Physicians AI Report | AI is already shaping how physicians practice. And for the release of The 2025 Physicians AI Report, Graham is taking a different kind of episode: a deep-dive mailbag where he answers the questions doctors are actually asking about AI, grounded in one of the largest physician surveys of its kind.More than 1,000 physicians were polled in this project, and their answers paint a far more nuanced picture than the headlines suggest. 📊 Yes, two-thirds of physicians already use AI every day. ✅ Yes, the majority believe AI can meaningfully reduce administrative burden. ⚠️ And yes, 81% are frustrated with how their organizations are deploying it. In this episode, Graham walks through those realities one by one.He breaks down why doctors trust AI for documentation but hesitate when it comes to decision support. Why the #1 fear isn’t “AI will replace me,” but rather who will control it. How payers, administrators, and mixed incentives shape the way AI enters clinical workflows. And why physicians may quietly be years ahead of their institutions in actually using the technology day-to-day.He also shares the moments from the report that surprised him most and the “dream tools” physicians wish someone would build already. And he offers a roadmap for healthcare leaders, AI companies, and clinicians about how to prevent AI from becoming the next EHR rollout: deployed to doctors instead of with them.👉 If you want to go deeper, you can download the full dataset and insights in The 2025 Physicians AI Report at https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com/Whether you’re experimenting with AI every shift or still cautiously watching from the sidelines, this episode offers clarity on where physicians actually stand and where medicine is headed next.What You’ll LearnWhat doctors are really doing with AI right now Two-thirds of physicians already use AI daily, but what exactly are they using it for, and how are they integrating it into their clinical workflows?Why organizational deployment is failing physicians From restrictive policies to unclear guidelines, Graham explains why 81% of doctors are frustrated and what leaders must fix to avoid repeating the mistakes of the EHR era.The #1 fear doctors have about AI and it’s not job loss Physicians overwhelmingly worry about AI falling under payer and administrative control. Graham breaks down the incentives behind that fear.What physicians want from AI companies A clear message to builders: specialty matters. Physicians don’t want “AI for doctors”; they want tools that understand their specific workflows.Why AI adoption is happening with or without institutions Graham explains how grassroots physician use is outpacing formal hospital adoption and what that means for the future of medical practice.Access all findings from The 2025 Physicians AI Report Download the full report, charts, and analysis at https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com/🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom Mentioned in this episode:This Episode is Sponsored by AbridgeAbridge is the leading AI platform that drafts structured, clinically useful notes at the point of conversationAbridge Sponsor | — | ||||||
| 12/4/25 |  The Future of Primary Care Is Independent: How Aledade Helps Doctors Break Free From Employed Medicine with Dr. Umar Bowers and Dan Bowles | Independent primary care isn’t a relic of the past — it’s becoming the future of American medicine. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker talks with two leaders helping drive that shift: Dr. Umar Bowers, an internist who left a major health system to build the practice he always envisioned, and Dan Bowles, General Manager of Practice Health at Aledade , the physician-led company enabling thousands of doctors to stay independent, financially stable, and clinically autonomous.Umar shares his personal journey from rising frustration inside a large employed medical group to opening Dawson Medical Group with the support of Aledade. He explains what independence really means, why he had zero fear stepping out of the system, and how value-based care became the engine that allowed his practice to thrive. You can read more of his story in Aledade’s physician success profile or connect with him directly on LinkedIn.Dan offers a rare inside look at why so many doctors feel trapped in employment, what’s driving the national shift back toward physician-led care, and how Aledade’s data, contracting expertise, and ready-made community of independent clinicians help doctors cross the bridge to autonomy instead of trying to swim it alone.This isn’t another story about burnout or bureaucracy, it’s a roadmap for physicians who want their careers, their schedules, and their practices back. Whether you’re considering independent practice or simply want to understand the movement reshaping primary care, this episode shows how doctors are taking back control of the profession, one practice at a time.What You’ll LearnWhy independent primary care is resurging and how value-based care is creating new financial stability for small practices.How Dr. Umar Bowers built his own practice from scratch and why he had zero fear leaving a major health system.What Aledade’s turnkey model actually provides, from startup capital and contracting support to data, workflows, and a nationwide physician community.How doctors can reclaim autonomy, flexibility, and clinical decision-making power without sacrificing income, infrastructure, or patient care.🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!📝 For a full transcript of this episode click HERE🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom Mentioned in this episode:This Episode is Sponsored by AbridgeAbridge is the leading AI platform that drafts structured, clinically useful notes at the point of conversationAbridge Sponsor | — | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | Thank You, Doctors! A Thanksgiving Highlight Reel from Mark Cuban, Shiv Rao, Danielle Ofri and More | This Thanksgiving, we’re pressing pause on the chaos of clinical life to honor the physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers who keep showing up tired, hopeful, frustrated,and inspired. In this special “Best Of” episode, Dr. Graham Walker revisits five conversations that have sparked the most messages, DMs, forwarded links, and late-night reflection from our listeners. These clips come from leaders who’ve helped all of us re-examine the work, the system, and ourselves:Featured Episodes & LinksDr. Shiv Rao is a cardiologist, entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, the physician-founded AI company transforming how clinical conversations become care.Listen to The Physician AI Conversation: How Doctors Can Drive the AI Era in Medicine Forward with Abridge CEO Dr. Shiv RaoDr. Danielle Ofri is an internist at Bellevue Hospital, clinical professor at NYU, and one of the most widely read physician-writers of our time. Listen to Medicine’s Broken Promises: Dr. Danielle Ofri on Greed, Trust, and Why the System Survives on Exploiting CliniciansMark Cuban is a business mogul, the “Shark” every entrepreneur wants to make a deal with, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and, most recently, an online pharmacy CEO.Listen to Mark Cuban: How I’d Reform Healthcare If I Were in ChargeDr. Vineet Arora is the Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago and one of the nation’s leading voices on equity, leadership, and physician well-being.Listen to Why Women Physicians Still Earn Less — and What We Can Do About It With Dr. Vineet AroraDr. Ali Chaudhary is an emergency physician, entrepreneur, and one of the leading voices helping doctors reclaim control over their careers.Listen to Breaking Free from W-2 Medicine: The Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens with Dr. Ali ChaudharyWhat You’ll LearnDr. Shiv RaoWhy AI adoption is accelerating inside health systems faster than anyone expected and how clinicians can shape the guardrails, not get steamrolled by them.Dr. Danielle OfriThe “unbroken chain” of clinicians and why modern healthcare quietly relies on exploiting professionalism to keep the system from collapsing.Mark CubanHow insurance design, pre-auth delays, and underpayment schemes shift financial risk onto physicians while confusing patients — and why it’s not your fault.Dr. Vineet AroraHow women residents fall three months behind in milestone advancement by graduation — and the narrative biases in feedback that fuel the promotion gap.Dr. Ali ChaudharyWhy the traditional W-2 model is structurally unstable — and how locums work can restore autonomy, income stability, and control over your life.🩺 Offcall is more than a platform — it’s a community. Join today!🎧 Subscribe to receive new How I Doctor episodes directly in your feed here: https://episodes.fm/1767429315👨⚕️Follow Dr. Graham Walker onLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-walker-md/ IG https://www.instagram.com/ubergraham/ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/drgrahamwalker.com ✉️ Join our newsletter On/Offcall here https://offcall.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🟧 Follow Offcall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoffcall/ IG https://www.instagram.com/offcalldotcom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offcalldotcom | — | ||||||
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