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Where scalpels meet systems — and physicians say what they really think. Co-hosted by Dutch Rojas, Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, with Anish Koka, MD, Dan Choi, MD, & Sanat Dixit, MD — candid talks on healthcare policy, reform, physician autonomy & patient care.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 5m
From Addiction to Advocacy: Tom Wolf's Journey
Send us Fan Mail Summary In this episode, Anthony DiGiorgio and Anish Koka engage with Tom Wolf, a recovery advocate, who shares his personal journey through addiction, homelessness, and eventual recovery. The conversation delves into the complexities of homelessness, the impact of substance use, and the evolving definitions and policies surrounding addiction treatment. Tom discusses the harm reduction approach, its origins, and its implications, while emphasizing the need for accountabilit...
- 2 weeks ago1h 16m
You Can't HSA That Away: Rachel Rosenthal on Medicare, Trade-offs, and Zero-COVID Singapore
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Rachel Rosenthal, an editorial board member at Bloomberg who writes on healthcare and education, joins Anthony DiGiorgio and Anish Koka for a wide-ranging conversation about healthcare reporting, COVID-era lessons, and why Medicare’s fiscal path matters beyond policy circles. The discussion gets into the incentives behind drug pricing, the limits of simplistic villains in healthcare, and why trade-offs, not slogans, are what actually shape reform. In thi...
- 2 weeks ago1h 4m
Real Doc Speaks: Bureaucracy, Bad Incentives, and the Fight to Keep Doctors in Charge
Send us Fan Mail In this special add-on episode, Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio welcome Dr. James O'Leary — a Mayo-trained OB-GYN with forty years of experience, former department chairman, ACO board member, and host of the Real Doc Speaks podcast — for a wide-ranging conversation on the erosion of physician-led care. The trio dissects a tragic Nashville case in which four outpatient knee-replacement patients were injected with potassium phosphate instead of bupivacaine after a multi-step, ...
- 3 weeks ago1h 16m
The Cost Cure: Ashish Jha's Case for Price Caps, Competition, and Biosurveillance
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Anthony DiGiorgio and Anish Koka speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, co-founder and CEO of BioRadar, senior fellow at Harvard Belfer Center, and former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, about the future of American healthcare policy. The conversation moves from hospital pricing and insurance design to Medicaid, HSA-based models, and the political realities that shape what reform is actually possible. They also pivot into a second major topic: biothreat detecti...
- Sep 7, 20261h 7m
Congressman Tom Oliverson on 340b, the No Surprises Act, gold carding, and more
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary In this episode of the Doctor's Lounge, Anthony DiGiorgio speaks with Hon. Tom Oliverson, MD, Texas State Representative for House District 130 and chair of the House Republican Caucus. Dr. Oliverson shares how he moved from medicine into public service, why practicing physicians should remain involved in policymaking, and what Texas is doing to address healthcare affordability. They also dig into 340B, prior authorization reform, and the origins of the ...
- Sep 1, 202659 min
Vinay Prasad: COVID, the FDA, and Why Journalism Keeps Getting Medicine Wrong
Send us Fan Mail The prior uploaded file had 26 seconds that was corrupted. Restored on this version! Episode Summary: Dr. Vinay Prasad joins the Doctors Lounge in a recorded in person conversation that moves from his time at the FDA to bigger questions about evidence, incentives, and trust in medicine. The discussion focuses on how regulatory agencies actually function, why public health debates have become so politicized, and whether the current healthcare funding model rewards good c...
- Aug 28, 202657 min
The Ship Has Sailed: Mike Munger on Medicare, Markets, and Debt
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Duke political economist and podcast host Mike Munger (The Answer is Transaction Costs) joins Anthony DiGiorgio and Anish Koka to argue that what Americans call "health insurance" isn't insurance at all — it's a social program where, as Bastiat put it, everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. Munger walks through why Medicare functions as a bilateral monopoly rather than a market, compares the U.S. system to Germany's competitive-insurer model a...
- Aug 22, 202656 min
900 Regulatory Hurdles: Why AI Isn't Replacing Doctors Yet
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary With scheduled guest Dr. Geoff Manley pulled away by a medical emergency, hosts Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio turn the episode into a news roundtable. They open on a JAMA op-ed by Neil Khosla and Ezekiel Emanuel arguing AI will replace physicians outright, and push back on both the regulatory timeline and the incentive structure behind it — including why hospitals are slow to adopt AI tools that already exist, like AI scribes and pre-charting. From there th...
About The Doctors’ Lounge
Where scalpels meet systems — and physicians say what they really think. Co-hosted by Dutch Rojas, Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, with Anish Koka, MD, Dan Choi, MD, & Sanat Dixit, MD — candid talks on healthcare policy, reform, physician autonomy & patient care.
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