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We Recently Sat Down With The Business Journal. Here’s What We Shared.
We recently had the chance to sit down with The Business Journals, which operates local news networks, including the Denver Business Journal, reaching business communities in more than 40 U.S. markets. The Business Journals works to spotlight the region’s fastest-growing companies through its Fast 50 Awards and celebrate great workplace culture through Best Places to…
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A Neurologist’s 15-Year Fight to Heal His Body | The Case for Regenerative Medicine & Healing Pain
I’ve had a lot of doctors on this podcast. Dr. Fawad Mian is the first one who spent most of our conversation talking about being a patient. He’s board-certified in neurology and regenerative medicine. He treats pain and complex neurological cases for a living. And for over a decade, he was also on the other…
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Doctors Are Healers Not Machines | Top Hospitalist on Compassionate Care, Provider Burnout & Culture
There is a version of this conversation that healthcare organizations have been having for years. It usually goes something like this: providers are burned out, patients feel unseen, and the solution is a wellness initiative — a meditation app, a free lunch, a reminder to drink water. Then everyone goes back to seeing twenty patients…
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His Mom Was Dying & Top Doctors Gave Up | So They Built a Medical System That Actually Works
There is a moment in every complex illness journey where the system runs out of answers. For Zach Dancel’s family, that moment came at Johns Hopkins. His mom was bedridden. She had seen specialist after specialist — the kind of doctors people fly across the world to access. She had accumulated 15 medications from providers…
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Healthcare doesn’t have a retention problem. It has a leadership problem.
I’ve watched this up close through Benes Companies and through conversations with providers across every discipline. The people leaving aren’t leaving because they stopped caring. They’re leaving because the system never gave them the tools to protect themselves from it. Vicki Landers gets this at a level most leadership consultants don’t — because she came…
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Too Complex to Treat: How Amelia Wullenschneider Healed What Medicine Missed
I have a friend who was 14 years old, paralyzed with pain on her couch, and completely alone in it. Not because nobody cared. Her mom took her to specialist after specialist — urologists, pediatricians — spending money they didn’t have to find answers. But every single provider said the same thing: nothing’s wrong. She…
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Top Precision Medicine Doctor: Why Standard Labs Fail Complex Illness & Multi-Omics Succeeds
A recap of The Care We Need podcast episode with Dr. Anil Bajnath, Founding President of the American Board of Precision Medicine I want to be honest with you about something. I sat down with Dr. Anil Bajnath knowing I was going to be in over my head. Molecular diagnostics, multi-omics, transcriptomics, proteomics — this…
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The Insurance Model Is Broken. Here’s the Doctor-Led Alternative | Collaborative Care & Autonomy
A recap of The Care We Need podcast episode with Dr. Don Railsback, CEO of Vision Care Direct I didn’t expect to be as moved by this conversation as I was. When I sat down with Dr. Don Railsback, I thought I was talking to an optometrist with a business idea. What I found was…
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A Former Special Forces Commando Walked Into My Podcast and Changed How I Think About Healing
I didn’t know what to expect when I got an email from an Australian breathwork coach who used to be a Special Forces Commando. I knew it would be interesting. I didn’t know it would reframe almost everything I thought I understood about why people struggle to heal. Tim Thomas is the founder of Breathwork…
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U.S. Healthcare Is Breaking Public Trust — A Health Systems Researcher Explains How to Rebuild It
I’ve had a lot of conversations on The Care We Need Podcast. But this one hit differently. Dr. Demetria Bolden is a faculty researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who studies how communication and system design shape health outcomes — with a specific focus on reducing cardiovascular disparities in communities of color.…
