About this episode

Dr. Graham Walker and Dr. Geeta Nayyar discuss the rise of medical misinformation and its impact on healthcare.

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 medical misinformation went from the fringes of the bell curve to the halls of power, and what physicians can actually do about it. Geeta doesn't come to this conversation as a distant observer. She's spent her career at the intersection of clinical medicine and health tech, advising organizations from the AMA to Fortune 500 companies on how to navigate a healthcare information landscape that has fundamentally broken down. Her perspective is grounded in something personal too. She saved her own mother's life during fellowship by doing what the system failed to do: gathering all the data, laying it out on the floor, and refusing to accept a diagnosis that didn't add up. That experience drove her into rheumatology and eventually into health tech, motivated by a simple question she still…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Graham Walker

Guest: Dr. Geeta Nayyar

Topics covered

• medical misinformation
• health tech
• patient advocacy
• clinical medicine
• healthcare system

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Salesforce, AT&T, AMA

Books & works: Dead Wrong

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