The Doctors’ Lounge

Vinay Prasad: COVID, the FDA, and Why Journalism Keeps Getting Medicine Wrong

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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

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

Inside a $207 Million Verdict: What Every Physician Should Know About Malpractice Trials

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary In a special Tuesday episode, Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with Heather Tereshko, a Principal at Post & Schell in Philadel

Right-to-Try 2.0: Inside the Montana Model with Niklas Anzinger

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with Niklas Anzinger, a venture capitalist and founder of Infinita VC, to unpack Montana SB53

Dan Donoho on Surgical Data Science, Regulation, and the Humanoid OR

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryAnthony DiGiorgio and Anish Koka sit down with Dr. Dan Donoho, an NIH-funded neurosurgeon-scientist at Children's National Hospital

Dr. George Tolis on Physician Pay, Private Practice, and a Valve Gone Wrong

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. George Tolis, chief of cardiothoracic surgery in Boston, returns to The Doctors Lounge with hosts Dr. Anish

Cremieux on FDA Reform, Fake Data, and the Columbia Admissions Hack

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryDrs. Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with independent science writer Cremieux, the pseudonymous Substack author known for audit

Scott Becker on Building Becker's Healthcare, Physician Supply, and Private Enterprise

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryAnish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with Scott Becker, founder of Becker's Healthcare and partner at McGuireWoods, on the busi

Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Prison, and the Fraud That Shook Pharma

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryAnish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with Martin Shkreli — the former hedge fund manager and pharma executive best known for the 201

Do No Harm: Inside the Fight to Get Identity Politics Out of Medicine

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryDr. Stanley Goldfarb — nephrologist, former Associate Dean for Curriculum at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, and founder of Do N

The Myocarditis Double Standard: COVID, the Vaccine, and the Pediatric Deaths That Went Unreported

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryDr. Tracy Beth Høeg returns alongside Dr. Venkatesh Murthy, NIH-funded cardiologist at the University of Michigan, to dissect the Senator

David Zweig on Schools, Science, and the Media's COVID Failure

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryInvestigative journalist David Zweig joins Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio to discuss his book An Abundance of Caution: American Schools

Drug Pricing, Broken Incentives, and the 340b program Fixes Washington Won't Touch

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Ryan Long — former senior policy advisor to Speaker Kevin McCarthy and current non-resident senior scholar at the USC Schaefer Institut

The Atom Bomb Speaks: Tracy Høeg on COVID, Myocarditis, and the FDA From the Inside

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryDr. Tracy Høeg — physician, epidemiologist, and former Acting Director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research — joins

The ER Doc Who Quit the System - and Built His Own

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Dr. Noah Kaufman - board-certified emergency physician with 20 years in the ER, seven seasons on American Ninja Warrior, and a new dire

The Cholesterol Debate: What the Keto Influencers Get Right (and Wrong)

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Dr. Greg Katz, preventive cardiologist at NYU Langone and co-host of Beyond Journal Club, joins Anish to dissect the online cholesterol

Gaming the System: LTACHs, Guidelines, and the Evidence Problem in American Medicine

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Dr. Anil Makam — hospitalist, health services researcher at UCSF, and faculty at Zuckerberg San Francisco General — joins Drs. Koka and

The FDA, Unicure, and the Limits of Accelerated Approval

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Anish sits down with Adu, a med student and biotech investor, to work through the FDA's contested handling of Unicure's AMT-1

Salty About Medical Education: Bryan Carmody on What the System Gets Wrong

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Pediatric nephrologist, medical educator, and "Sheriff of Sodium" Dr. Bryan Carmody joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio to challenge some of