Signal and Symptoms Podcast

Will AI Replace the Doctor? The Empathy Debate, with Dr. Alan Weiss

“Medicine is fundamentally a relationship, and I don’t think AI replaces that.” That is where Dr. Alan Weiss plants his flag, seconds before Dr. Junaid Kalia throws down

Built Without Us: Physician Led AI Governance — Dr. Ryan Walsh (CMIO, Memorial Hermann)

Technology keeps getting built for clinicians and too often without them. This episode of Signal & Symptoms is about closing that gap. Dr. Junaid Kalia is joined by co-ho

The Decision, Not the Model: Lessons from Oncology AI — Dr. Agata Krasoń

“AI alone is very rarely the real breakthrough.” That’s how Dr. Agata Krasoń a Senior Clinical & Imaging Data Scientist at Roche, joining from Switzerland opens the conve

Run the Model Yourself: A Clinician’s Guide to Local AI

This one is a roundtable no guest, just the three of us. Dr. Junaid Kalia sits down with co-hosts Ed Marx and DR GPT™ Harvey Castro for a hands on, slightly geeky convers

Buyer to Builder — The Invisible Layer of Patient Monitoring

A small sensor sits on a tripod across the room — no wearable, no camera, nothing taped to a chest — and it’s reading a heartbeat through the air. What does it take for a

Explainable Clinical Digital Twins: One Engine for Power Plants and Patients

The same software engine can run a 400 megawatt power plant and simulate whether a cancer drug will survive a real world patient population. That’s not two companies it’s

Who Owns Your Medical Record Now? — Stephen Rouse, Co-Founder, Savva

For a generation, your medical record has lived behind the hospital’s firewall. What happens the day the patient walks in holding it already read, already interpreted by

Can Medicine Keep Up with AI? — Dr. Yeshe Kway (Oxford)

Somewhere in Oxford, there’s an AI that can produce a contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI without ever injecting the contrast. No needle, no gadolinium, no risk. It works and i

AI Won’t Replace Your Pediatrician — But It Will Change the Visit

The hardest part of a pediatric visit now happens before the appointment even begins. In this episode, Dr. Isha Mannering a board-certified pediatrician with 16 years in

How Brain Organoids Work (And Why They Could Replace Silicon)

The foundation of tomorrow's diagnostics is being rebuilt — and it starts in biology, not silicon. In this episode, Edmund White, biomedical innovator and bestselling au

Why AI Isn't the Tech Hype Hospital Leaders Think It Is

We built a healthcare system engineered for sick care, but the future of medicine belongs to those who seek health. In this episode, global Digital Health Futurist Phili

Healthcare AI: What To Know, What's Still Broken, and Where To Go Next

What does it actually cost when a diagnosis comes six months too late, a test gets ordered twice, or a treatment decision gets made without the best information available

What Hospitals Actually Need Before They'll Deploy Your AI

Will AI eliminate primary care — or finally give primary care physicians their time back? That's the central question driving this episode, as Dr. Junaid Kalia, Dr. Har

The Hidden Risk of AI-Powered Clinical Decisions

You already know not every AI tool belongs in your workflow. The real question is whether your filter is sharp enough to tell the difference. In this episode, Dr. Junaid

Why Will Digital Twins Change the Way We Treat Patients?

What if the most powerful diagnostic tool wasn't a scan or a lab result — but a continuously learning model of your patient, built from their own data? In this episode,

What Happens to Hospital Revenue When AI Replaces Primary Care?

Most healthcare conversations stop at disruption, but this one starts there. In this episode, three healthcare experts sit down to map what happens when AI doesn't just

The Business Playbook for Physicians Who Want to Win Beyond the Clinic

You went into medicine to save lives. But somewhere between residency and the real world, you started wondering — is there more I could be doing? That question is not a

How Ultrasound Frequencies Enable Early Intervention and Save Lives

What if the difference between a late diagnosis and a successful intervention was simply how we decode the signals of a sound wave? In this episode, we are discussing th

The Treatment Exists But Why Aren't Patients Getting It?

What if the real barrier to better patient outcomes isn't the medicine — it's the infrastructure to prescribe it well? This episode surfaces a broader signal: personaliz

AI Is In Healthcare—So Why Isn't It Working?

The overarching signal is: we're early, it's messy, and the people closest to the work know it best. In this episode, Dr. Andrew Kim joins hosts Dr. Junaid Kalia, Dr. Ha