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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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- 6 days 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...
- 1 weeks ago1h 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 ...
- 2 weeks ago59 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...
- 3 weeks ago57 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...
- 4 weeks ago56 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...
- Aug 13, 20261h 3m
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 Philadelphia and a 25-year veteran of medical malpractice defense, to break down the largest medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania history — a $207 million judgment against the University of Pennsylvania stemming from a delayed C-section and resulting anoxic brain injury. Using the case as a launching pad, the three walk thr...
- Aug 11, 20261h 0m
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 SB535 — a new law that lets doctors administer treatments to patients that have only cleared FDA phase one trials, through licensed "experimental treatment centers" overseen by independent review boards. The conversation covers why Eroom's Law has made drug development slower and more expensive despite scientific advances, how the...
- Aug 1, 202651 min
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 and George Washington University, and founder of the Surgical Data Science Collective and the Foundation for Digital Neurosurgery, for a wide-ranging conversation on AI in medicine. Donoho explains why surgeons get almost no structured feedback after a case, walks through a randomized controlled trial showing AI-coached medical stu...
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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