Fixing Healthcare Podcast
A podcast with a plan to fix healthcare, featuring Dr. Robert Pearl, Jeremy Corr, and guests. They discuss the challenges and solutions in the U.S. healthcare system, aiming to improve patient care and outcomes.
Episodes
FHC #231: Dean Ornish on lifestyle medicine, loneliness and hope
Dean Ornish’s life was saved by meaning, connection and lifestyle change. Then he spent 50 years proving those same forces can save others.
In this episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Dean Ornish, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and one of the most influential figures in lifestyle medicine.
Across his career, Ornis
FHC #230: Flashback to healthcare skimping and AI-powered patients
Fixing Healthcare is revisiting a Diving Deep episode that feels even more important today than when it first aired in November 2023.
At the time, ChatGPT had been available to the public for just one year. Generative AI was still widely viewed as a fascinating but unreliable tool, impressive in some settings and error-prone in others. Many clinicians saw it as a novelty. Some saw it as a threat.
MTT #111: Why are patients paying more before they get care?
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl dig for the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show opens with a problem more Americans are facing every year: rising out-of-pocket costs and the growing demand that patients pay before they receive care.
Pearl explains that the listener’s concern is increasingly the rule, not the exception. To
FHC #229: Revisiting Mark Cuban’s prescription for lowering healthcare costs
With healthcare costs projected to rise sharply next year, Fixing Healthcare with cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr revisits one of the most popular conversations of the year: an interview with Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, longtime Shark Tank investor, former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of Cost-Plus Drugs.
Cuban has built his healthcare work around a deceptively simple idea: pati
Revisiting Vinod Khosla’s vision for AI-powered healthcare
With all the turmoil surrounding healthcare and artificial intelligence, the Fixing Healthcare team is revisiting one of its most provocative conversations: an interview with entrepreneur, investor and technology visionary Vinod Khosla.
When Khosla appeared on the show in November 2024, he made a claim that drew immediate criticism from many in medicine: “The most expensive part of the healt
FHC #227: Dr. Rod Rohrich on social media, science and AI-powered care
In this episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome back Dr. Rod Rohrich, an internationally recognized plastic surgeon, former editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and national leader in the application and safety of social media for medical advancement.
Dr. Rohrich, a returning guest (FHC #57), focuses now on the healthcare concerns most affecting Amer
FHC #226: Peptides, primary care & the false choices in American medicine
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine two very different healthcare debates that share a common problem: when medicine lacks good evidence and aligned incentives, patients and doctors are left with bad choices.
The conversation begins with experimental peptides, a fast-growing topic on social media and in wellness circles. Dr. Pearl reviews the FDA’s ongoing debate
MTT #110: Peptides, politics & the perils of medicine without evidence
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl go in search of the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show opens with one of the hottest and least understood medical topics: experimental peptides.
Pearl explains that an FDA advisory committee narrowly recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to provide six experimental peptides to patien
FHC #225: Kindness, burnout and the limits of medical leadership
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Drs. Robert Pearl and Jonathan Fisher join cohost Jeremy Corr for a wide-ranging conversation about burnout, kindness, leadership, medical errors and what American healthcare can learn from other nations.
The episode begins with Fisher’s recent trip to Australia, where he joined physicians and other healthcare professionals for a program focused on
FHC #224: Austin Chiang on burnout, misinformation and the future of med-tech
Dr. Austin Chiang has built one of medicine’s most distinctive public platforms.
He is a triple board-certified gastroenterologist, Chief Medical Officer for Medtronic’s Endoscopy business and Associate Professor of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. He is also one of healthcare’s most influential physician voices online, with hundreds of thousands of followers across TikTok, Instagram, YouT
FHC #223: How GenAI & World Cup strategy can help fix healthcare
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine two big questions facing American medicine: how generative AI can make healthcare more affordable and what the World Cup can teach doctors about strategy, teamwork and leadership.
The conversation begins with a counterintuitive point: In other industries, technology often lowers costs by allowing companies to produce the same ou
MTT #109: Healthcare affordability, GLP-1s and the patient revolt ahead
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl dig for the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show opens with the issue most likely to shape how Americans think about healthcare heading into the midterm elections: affordability.
Dr. Pearl explains that medical costs have now reached $5.7 trillion, rising more than 7% for the third consecuti
FHC #222: From burnout to leadership: how physicians can flourish
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Drs. Robert Pearl and Jonathan Fisher explore what medicine can learn from positive psychology, elite sports teams and the daily pressures facing clinicians, leaders and patients.
The conversation begins with Fisher’s recent trip to Ireland, where he spoke at a conference on positive psychology, organizational well-being and leadership. Fisher expla
FHC #221: What 440 medical groups are saying about healthcare today
Dr. Jerry Penso leads one of the most influential organizations in American healthcare. As president and CEO of AMGA, the American Medical Group Association, Penso represents 440 medical groups and health systems that care for nearly 100 million Americans.
That vantage point makes him an ideal guest for Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare with cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr.
This season’s gue
FHC #220: How AI is challenging old assumptions in medicine
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr explore what a breakthrough in mathematics can teach healthcare about generative AI, outdated assumptions and the future of medical practice.
The conversation begins with Paul Erdős, the brilliant Hungarian mathematician whose unit-distance problem stumped experts for 80 years. Generations of mathematicians tried to prove Erdős’ conject
MTT #108: Designer babies, chronic disease & AI-powered care
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl probe the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show opens with a scientific breakthrough that could change the future of inherited disease: a new gene-editing technique that may allow researchers to correct DNA errors in human embryos with far greater precision than earlier CRISPR approaches.
Dr.
FHC #219: Can AI help doctors think without losing medicine’s humanity?
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Drs. Robert Pearl and Jonathan Fisher join cohost Jeremy Corr for a fascinating conversation about the physician’s mind, the promise and limits of generative AI, and what medicine risks losing when technology advances faster than humans can tolerate.
In this episode, Pearl turns to a realization he had during a recent hiking trip in Portugal: his br
FHC #218: Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli on healthcare’s next burning platform
Dr. Anthony “Mazz” Mazzarelli brings a rare combination of perspectives to American healthcare: physician, executive, lawyer, bioethicist, author and media voice.
As co-president and CEO of Cooper University Health Care and associate dean of clinical affairs at Cooper Medical School, Mazzarelli leads a major safety-net health system while continuing to see patients himself. He is also co-author of
FHC #217: GenAI, physician fulfillment & the future of medical practice
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine the rapid advance of generative AI, along with the growing conflict between medicine’s mission to heal and doctors’ need for financial security.
The conversation begins with a question now echoing across every profession: Will AI replace highly trained workers? In medicine, Dr. Pearl argues, the answer is less about replacement
MTT #107: How politics is weakening America’s public health defenses
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl probe the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show examines the accelerating progress of generative AI, the political turmoil inside America’s leading health agencies and the infectious disease threats testing the nation’s public health readiness.
The conversation opens with a listener question
FHC #216: An unfiltered look at what legacy means in medicine
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Drs. Robert Pearl and Jonathan Fisher explore three questions that reach across medicine, leadership and life itself: What legacy do physicians leave behind? How does mindset shape health and longevity? And can doctors still find fulfillment as medical practice shifts from independence to employment?
The conversation begins with Tim Cook’s legacy at
FHC #215: Revisiting healthcare leadership, technology & capitation
Fixing Healthcare hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl are revisiting a past episode of Diving Deep while Dr. Pearl travels and keynotes events around the world. And like last week’s replay, this conversation was selected for a reason.
Originally recorded more than three years ago, this episode explores two issues that remain central to the future of American medicine: how healthcare
FHC #214: Revisiting GLP-1 prices and ChatGPT’s early leap forward
For the next two weeks, Fixing Healthcare hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl will be replaying past episodes of Diving Deep while Dr. Pearl travels and keynotes events around the world. But these aren’t random reruns. They were selected for a reason: to highlight just how quickly technology is advancing and how slowly healthcare is adapting.
This week’s flashback revisits a July 2024 conversat
FHC #213: Longevity myths, healthcare costs & why medicine must subtract to improve
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr dissect two issues that are often discussed separately but are deeply intertwined: how Americans can live longer, healthier lives and how the nation can make healthcare more affordable.
The conversation begins with longevity. As interest in lifespan and “healthspan” grows, Dr. Pearl challenges three widely held beliefs that, in his view
MTT #106: Trump’s 2027 budget & the other threats to U.S. healthcare
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl probe the facts beneath healthcare biggest headlines. Today’s show features an in-depth look at sweeping federal budget cuts, the expanding (and often misunderstood) impact of GLP-1 medications and what’s destabilizing health coverage.
The conversation opens with a stark warning. Dr. Pearl reviews the president’s
FHC #212: OpenAI’s Nate Gross on ChatGPT’s next big move in healthcare
OpenAI didn’t need to convince patients to try generative AI.
According to Dr. Nate Gross, Health of Health at OpenAI, 230 million people already use ChatGPT each week to interpret lab results, prepare for visits, understand diagnoses or ask health-related questions they didn’t have time (or confidence) to raise in the exam room.
But what about clinicians?
On this episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr.
FHC #211: How medical culture slowly reshapes physician identity
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Drs. Robert Pearl and Jonathan Fisher join cohost Jeremy Corr to explore one of medicine’s least discussed forces: how professional culture gradually reshapes physician identity.
The conversation begins with relationships using an unlikely touchpoint: FX’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Using marriage, friendship, doctor-pat
FHC #210: Healthcare’s productivity crisis & how vibe coding could help
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr connect two forces that are beginning to reshape the future of medicine: healthcare’s worsening economic inefficiency and the rise of physician-built generative AI tools.
The conversation opens with a provocative interpretation of the latest U.S. jobs reports. While healthcare has become the nation’s primary engine of employment growth,
MTT #105: New science on aging, rising medical debt & healthcare’s fax problem
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl balance two sides of American healthcare: the encouraging scientific advances that could help people live longer and healthier lives, and the growing affordability and trust crises threatening patients across the country.
The conversation opens on an optimistic note. Dr. Pearl highlights new Yale research showing
FHC #209: What the AMA’s new CEO is hearing from doctors & patients right now
Dr. John Whyte has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, media and public policy. Now, as CEO of the American Medical Association, he hears firsthand what physicians, patients and health leaders are most concerned about and what they expect from the future of healthcare.
That perspective makes him an ideal guest for Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare with cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jerem
FHC #208: Why empathy alone won’t fix healthcare leadership
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down with cardiologist and mindfulness expert Dr. Jonathan Fisher for a wide-ranging conversation about leadership, strategy and the future of physician influence in American medicine.
The discussion begins with a challenge to a popular point of view: that empathy, transparency and trust make for an effective lea
FHC #207: Three major healthcare threats GenAI can help solve
In this Diving Deep episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Cor return to a question listeners have been asking for months: What role will generative AI realistically play in American healthcare?
Dr. Pearl opens the discussion around three urgent threats that, if ignored, may soon become too large and too expensive to solve:
The affordability cliff
The chronic disease crisis
The risk of training doc
MTT #104: TrumpRx, rising measles cases & the politics of vaccine science
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl unpack a wide range of developments shaping healthcare in America today, including the TrumpRx drug discount program.
From new legislation affecting telehealth and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to the rapid spread of measles and growing public concern about vaccine policy, this month’s discussion highlights th
FHC #206: What Gen Z expects from healthcare & why it matters
Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare continues its shift away from the traditional top-down model of interviewing CEOs, policymakers and medical leaders to focus this week on something new, different and fascinating: listening to the generation that is inheriting this American healthcare system.
In this episode, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr speak with Grace Lynn Keller, VP at Executive Podcast Solut
FHC #205: What ‘F1’ movie teaches us about leadership in medicine
In this Unfiltered episode of Fixing Healthcare, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down with cardiologist and mindfulness expert Dr. Jonathan Fisher for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, culture and team performance, inspired by lessons from the movie F1.
What begins as a discussion about racing quickly becomes a deep exploration of how high-performing teams operate under pressur
MTT #103: Can generative AI safely prescribe medicine on its own?
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl examine a sweeping set of developments shaping American healthcare. From the first state-approved use of generative AI to prescribe medications without human oversight to rising healthcare costs, from worsening vaccine misinformation to the stubborn persistence of preventable disease, this show focuses on biggest
FHC #204: Why healthcare chaos didn’t lead to change & what comes next
This Diving Deep episode with Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr looks at U.S. healthcare across three time horizons: past, present and future.
The hosts use 2025 as a case study in disruption without reform, 2026 as a year of mounting pressure and near-term transition, and the coming decade as a period when generative AI will fundamentally reshape how medicine is practiced.
Looking back at 2025
Dr.
FHC #203: Dead ends, failures & the unlikely path to medical progress
As part of Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare, which spotlights influential voices with large followings and direct insight into how real people experience medicine, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome back medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris for her third appearance on the show, this time joined by her husband and creative partner, illustrator Adrian Teal.
Together, Lindsey and Adrian bring
FHC #202: Willpower, doom scrolling & the illusion of control
Dr. Robert Pearl’s latest opinion poll, part of his “Monthly Musings” newsletter, asked readers about their health goals and habits for 2026 (note: studies show most Americans have already quit their resolutions for the year). The result? People want to eat better, workout more and lose weight. And yet, the behaviors that lead to those outcomes are cited as the most difficult things to maintain: g
MTT #102: Vaccines under fire, rising disease & the cost of politics in medicine
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr look closely at the stories and controversies shaping U.S. healthcare at the start of 2026.
From a severe flu season and resurgent vaccine-preventable diseases to drug pricing, autism research and the growing role of AI in medicine, the episode offers a data-driven look at where American healthcare is headed.
The
FHC #201: Mark Cuban’s blunt diagnosis of what’s broken in healthcare
Mark Cuban approaches healthcare the same way he approaches every industry he enters: by assuming something essential is missing and then asking who benefits from keeping it that way. In American medicine, he believes that missing ingredient is transparency. Not better messaging, not smarter incentives, but simple visibility into how prices are set, who gets paid and who gets taken advantage of.
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FHC #200: Healthcare’s cost crisis, GenAI’s promise + medicine’s leadership gap
In this Diving Deep episode, the 200th of episode of Fixing Healthcare, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr explore three interconnected themes:
The biggest driver of America’s healthcare crisis.
The transformative (and still largely untapped) potential of generative AI.
The strategic leadership physicians must embrace if they hope to regain control of their profession and the care their pat
FHC #199: Revisiting ‘The road to AI-empowered healthcare’ from ChatGPT, MD
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re flashing back to one of the year’s most listened-to episodes of Fixing Healthcare. This week, a special reading from Dr. Robert Pearl’s bestselling book “ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine.”
This encore episode includes audio from Chapter 11, titled “The Road to AI-Empowered Healthcare,” followed by Chapte
FHC #198: The surprising science of gratitude & the cost of conformity
After the Thanksgiving holiday, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down for an “Unfiltered” discussion about gratitude with cardiologist and burnout expert Dr. Jonathan Fisher.
While the discussion begins with an exploration of the science and value of gratitude, the episode then expands into an analysis of cultural trends in medicine, mental health, and the tension between individual autonomy a
MTT #101: From measles outbreaks to GLP-1 hype, the data every patient should know
In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl examine a wide range of stories shaping American health. From new research on the lifesaving effects of health insurance to troubling vaccine policy changes in Washington, this episode offers an objective and insightful look at what’s working, what’s failing and what lies ahead.
The show opens with a study that f
FHC #197: Artificial wombs & medical tourism – Draper siblings on healthcare’s next wave
The Draper name is synonymous with Silicon Valley risk-taking. For decades, venture capitalist Tim Draper made bold bets on breakthrough technologies long before they went mainstream (see: Bitcoin). Today, two members of the next generation — siblings Jesse and Adam Draper — are directing that same appetite for innovation toward one of America’s most troubled industries: healthcare.
Jesse, foundin
FHC #196: Revisiting Thanksgiving 2020 at Covid’s peak
For this Thanksgiving week, we’re revisiting an important and emotionally charged episode from the first season of “Medicine: The Truth.” = When this episode debuted in 2020, the podcast was called “Coronavirus: The Truth,” which began when readers of Dr. Robert Pearl’s newsletter, “Monthly Musings on American Healthcare,” started asking for much-needed facts and context surrounding the pandemic.
FHC #195: Dr. Julie Fisher on medicine, marriage & misogyny
This special episode of Unfiltered departs from its usual cadence and lineup as cardiologist Jonathan Fisher is joined this week by his wife, oncologist Dr. Julie Fisher.
Together with hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl, the group embarks on a candid, unscripted conversation that begins with a literal and metaphorical climb. Julie and Jonathan recount their joint ascent of Mount Everest (Julie
FHC #194: A flashback to Dr. Jen Gunter’s fearless fight for truth in women’s health
Before TikTok myth-busting and Instagram reels took over the health education space, Dr. Jen Gunter dominated Twitter (now “X”) as medicine’s fiercest advocate for women’s health.
Dr. Gunter built a massive following by calling out dangerous pseudoscience, exposing sexism in medicine and championing evidence‑based care. In this flashback episode of Fixing Healthcare, we revisit a standout conversa
MTT #100: From COVID-19 to ChatGPT, a close look at the last 5 years
When this podcast launched in March 2020 as Coronavirus: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr set out to give listeners clear science and accurate analysis during a moment of chaos. Now, 100 episodes later, as Medicine: The Truth, the duo sit down and revisit the most important medical stories of the past five years, explaining what the nation learned, what it didn’t and what urgent q
FHC #193: What’s fueling medical mistrust & why startups fail
In this Diving Deep episode of Fixing Healthcare, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine two pressing topics: the hidden causes of patient mistrust in doctors and the top reasons healthcare startups fall short.
The episode begins with a striking question: Why don’t Americans trust their doctors anymore?
For most of the past century, physicians were among the most trusted professionals in
FHC #192: Flashback to ‘burnout and the physician career arc’
With Dr. Jonathan Fisher’s upcoming Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit (Nov. 6–7) just around the corner, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr revisit one of the trio’s most powerful Unfiltered conversations ever.
When this episode first aired a year ago, burnout among doctors was at crisis levels, fueled by long hours, bureaucratic burdens and a culture that rewarded perfectionism over self
FHC #191: Dr. Joel Bervell on medical bias & the power of storytelling
Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare continues its exploration of medicine’s rising influencers with a conversation that reveals how patients can advocate for themselves, how doctors can confront bias they don’t even realize they have, and how storytelling on TikTok is changing medical education.
Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Joel Bervell, a Ghanaian-American physician, resident in training,
MTT #99: The frightening state of U.S. medicine as politics replace science
This Halloween-themed episode of Medicine: The Truth finds hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr confronting the real horrors haunting American medicine today.
When Corr asks what scares him most, Dr. Pearl doesn’t hesitate: it’s the chaos, confusion and politicization that have replaced science and reason. From vaccine policy to drug and insurance pricing to Medicaid cuts, Pearl explains how bad
FHC #190: TikTok’s favorite OB-GYN reveals what millions of women really ask their doctors
Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare continues its exploration of medicine’s new voices and rising influencers with an eye-opening conversation about sexuality, vaccinees and misinformation. Today’s guest, originally from rural Texas, joins the show from the other side of the world.
Cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Danielle Jones, better known to millions as Mama Doctor Jones. An OB-
FHC #189: Diving deep into imposter syndrome in medicine
In this revealing episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down with cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher to explore a hidden source of suffering in modern medicine: imposter syndrome.
Together, Pearl and Fisher take a vulnerable and nuanced look at the internal doubts that haunt even the most accomplished clinicians. Drawing on Fisher’s research and personal experience, the
FHC #188: Why younger patients turn away from doctors & toward GenAI
In this Diving Deep episode of Fixing Healthcare, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr explore two urgent shifts reshaping the patient-doctor relationship in American medicine.
First, they tackle a generational divide that’s growing wider by the year. Gen Z and Millennial patients (now 40% of healthcare consumers), are increasingly turning away from traditional medical providers. Distrust in i
MTT #98: Can patients and doctors still trust the CDC, FDA?
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr dig into growing public distrust in the two government agencies charged with protecting Americans’ health: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Recent shakeups, including the resignation of top leaders and staff reductions, highlight just how politicized these organi
FHC #187: Autonomy, burnout & the future of medical care
In this candid episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down with cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher to examine why so many clinicians feel trapped between rising bureaucracy and shrinking autonomy.
Together, they detail what it will take to build a system that serves both patients and physicians. Drawing on Fisher’s experiences in small private practice and in a large hea
FHC #186: Optum CEO on AI, big data & preventing disease
FHC #186: From rare diseases to rural America, Optum’s CEO talks healthcare’s future
In this special return to Season 10, which focused on transformative technologies in medicine, Fixing Healthcare hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr interview Dr. Patrick Conway, CEO of Optum, a $250 billion division of UnitedHealth Group. A pediatrician and former CMS leader, Dr. Conway has spent his career dr
FHC #185: A System in crisis, a technology in waiting
In this Diving Deep episode of Fixing Healthcare, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr tackle two timely topics shaping the future of American medicine.
First, the pair explore a growing concern among health policy experts and clinicians alike: Is the U.S. medical system headed for economic collapse? Dr. Pearl outlines three troubling trends in support of this concern. Ballooning healthcare co
MTT #97: Drug prices, Big Tech EHR promises & the 7,000-step surprise
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr cover a whirlwind of headlines, from a White House push to tie U.S. drug prices to wealthy-nation benchmarks (with tariff threats) to a Big Tech pledge to make medical records truly interoperable. They also unpack what ACA exchange enrollees should expect in 2026 as cost-sharing subsidies teeter and insurers file double-digit
FHC #184: Dr. Uché Blackstock on racism, sexism and fixing medicine
In the first episode of Fixing Healthcare’s 11th season, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr speak with Dr. Uché Blackstock, an emergency physician, bestselling author and health equity expert.
This season turns the spotlight on voices from social media, offering insights into what patients actually want from the U.S. healthcare system. Dr. Blackstock (whose online following is both massive a
FHC #183: Will GenAI replace docs? How should medical schools respond?
In this Diving Deep episode of Fixing Healthcare, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr tackle two of the most pressing questions in healthcare today, each focused on the future of medical practice in the era of generative AI.
First, the hosts explore the controversial question: Will AI replace doctors? Dr. Pearl argues that, despite recent advances in AI that now outperform physicians in a gro
MTT #96: Cancer confusion, obesity clarity & a $3M drug failure
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine a wide range of healthcare headlines. From the Supreme Court’s ruling on preventive care to heat-related deaths, experimental diabetes treatments and the continued unaffordability of life-saving drugs, this episode focuses on biggest stories in medicine today.
It opens with a breakdown of the Supreme Court’s
FHC #182: How GenAI, telemedicine and AI assistants will reshape medicine
In a special episode of Fixing Healthcare, Jeremy Corr turns the mic once more to cohost Dr. Robert Pearl, inviting him to reflect on Season 10, marking the duo’s most ambitious deep-dive into the technologies transforming American medicine.
Over the past nine episodes, Corr and Pearl welcomed leading thinkers in health tech, including high-profile executives from Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Nvi
FHC #181: When the doctor becomes the patient
In this introspective episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down once again with cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher to explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of medical treatment — this time from the perspective of a physician as a patient.
Prompted by Dr. Fisher’s own recent orthopedic surgery, the discussion examines the complexities and uncertaintie
FHC #180: Diving Deep into healthcare politics & the biases blocking chronic disease care
In this episode of Fixing Healthcare’s “Diving Deep,” co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine two pressing healthcare issues through thoughtful Q&A: the impact of Trump’s healthcare promises on policy and the hidden psychological bias that impedes everything from tariff decisions to chronic disease management.
First, the hosts discuss President Donald Trump’s bold healthcare promises
FHC #179: An unfiltered look back at independence, authenticity in medicine
With Dr. Robert Pearl traveling abroad this week to keynote a major conference on patient data transparency, the Fixing Healthcare team is revisiting one of its most popular episodes: an Unfiltered conversation with Dr. Zubin Damania (aka ZDoggMD), originally recorded three years ago in the lead-up to Independence Day.
At the time of the recording, America was grappling with the aftermath of a dea
MTT #95: Politics vs. science—Who really controls America’s vaccines?
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr explore significant updates and controversies in healthcare, from battles over vaccine recommendations to skyrocketing healthcare costs and promising cancer research.
The CDC recently clashed with Robert Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, over Covid-19 vaccine recommendations. Kennedy declared no ad
FHC #178: Dying of a broken heart, literally
In this thought-provoking episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr sit down with cardiologist and physician well-being advocate Dr. Jonathan Fisher to explore the intersection of stress, gender and modern medicine—beginning with the surprising physiology of a literal broken heart.
Timed with Father’s Day, the conversation opens with reflections on masculinity and caregiving
FHC #177: Inside TPMG’s bold AI strategy with CEO Maria Ansari
In this special episode of Fixing Healthcare, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Maria Ansari, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, Northwest Permanente and Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group.
In this interview, Dr. Ansari offers a forward-looking perspective shaped by deep experience in value-based care and technological innovation. The conversation is part of Season 10’s focus
FHC #176: What AGI means for medicine & what Trump means for healthcare
In this month’s Diving Deep episode of the Fixing Healthcare podcast, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr tackle two major questions:
How have the first 100 days of Presidents Obama and Trump shaped American healthcare—and where is Trump’s second term headed?
What happens to medicine when artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrives, making generative AI as capable as human doctors?
The c
MTT #94: Measles, meds & misinformation: Can we still trust American science?
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr unpack a troubling set of healthcare developments—from surging vaccine-preventable illnesses to steep hikes in drug costs and the looming threat of Medicaid cuts.
Measles cases have now topped 1,000, with Texas experiencing the worst outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Meanwhile, other infecti
FHC #175: Burnout, Broken Systems & The Severed Self
In this episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr are joined once again by cardiologist and physician wellness advocate Dr. Jonathan Fisher. The trio take an unfiltered look at physician burnout, asking whether the profession itself is pushing doctors to emotionally “split in two.”
The discussion covers a wide range of pressing issues, from declining reimbursements and ineffe
FHC #174: Zocdoc CEO says AI will cure healthcare’s scheduling chaos
In the latest episode of Fixing Healthcare, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Oliver Kharraz, founder and CEO of Zocdoc, for a conversation about the power of technology to eliminate one of medicine’s biggest pain points: access.
This interview, part of Season 10’s focus on transformative technology, spotlights Zocdoc’s role as a digital marketplace where patients can search for provi
FHC #173: Before ChatGPT, Vinod Khosla predicted healthcare’s AI revolution
In this week’s Fixing Healthcare podcast, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr flash back to a pivotal interview recorded in December 2021 with famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
Season 10 of the show is dedicated to exploring how technology can reshape American medicine. What better way to reflect on the promises and pitfalls of healthcare innovation than by revisiting Khosla’s bold pred
FHC #172: 91% of Americans get subsidized healthcare. What if it vanishes?
In this month’s Diving Deep episode of the Fixing Healthcare podcast, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr tackle one of healthcare’s most misunderstood facts: nearly 91% of Americans receive some form of government healthcare assistance.
Whether your insurance comes through an employer, the online health insurance marketplace, Medicare or Medicaid, the government is footing part of the bill.
MTT #93: Measles death toll rises, healthcare spending hits $5.2 trillion
In this episode of Medicine: The Truth, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine the alarming spread of measles across 25 U.S. states (with outbreaks in six). The disease, as of this episode’s publication, has already led to 700 cases and the confirmed deaths of two unvaccinated children.
Meanwhile, healthcare costs have ballooned to $5.2 trillion, federal funding cuts are hampering outbr
FHC #171: The doctor is in … Lululemon?
In this lively episode of Unfiltered, cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr are joined once again by cardiologist and physician wellness advocate Dr. Jonathan Fisher. The trio takes an unexpected but fascinating journey into the symbolism, psychology and culture of physician attire—and what shifting trends reveal about the status of American medicine.
What starts as an observation about the abs
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