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How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker
I built MDCalc 20 years ago because I wanted to save myself and other doctors time and make it easy for them to integrate more evidence into their medical care. Now I’ve launched Offcall to tackle something even bigger: giving doctors back our autonomy — through salary and workload transparency. These ideas shouldn’t be radical…but here we are. I still practice emergency medicine, but I’ve spent my career breaking out of the cookie cutter version of “what a doctor looks like” or “what a…
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How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMeet DR GPT™: Dr. Harvey Castro on Patients, Robots, and Who Will Drive AI in Medicine
By the time your patient reaches you, you may be their fourth opinion. They have already asked a chatbot, or several, and they arrive with a diagnosis, a drug…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerPrimary Care Is the API for Healthcare. So Why Is Nobody Building for It? with Jefferson Health’s Dr. David Nichols
Primary care doctors spend their days stitching together a system that was never built to connect. Dr. David Nichols thinks they should be the ones to rebuild…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerIs Not Asking About ChatGPT the Next Malpractice Risk? With Berkeley Law's Vincent Joralemon
Your patient asked a chatbot about their medication before they asked you. If something goes wrong, the law may care less about what the chatbot said than…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerIf AI Can Prescribe, Who's Liable When It Gets It Wrong? Four Experts Weigh In
In the first-ever How I Doctor Roundtable, Dr. Graham Walker brings together four people who see prescribing from four different seats: Dr. Simon Chang, an…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhy Can't Good Medical Advice Go Viral? Dr. Mike Evans on Health Communication in the Influencer Era
Every physician has met the patient who arrives with a confident claim from a feed, a podcast, or a supplement ad. The careful, evidence-based answer is the…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerHow Dr. Keith Matheny Turned His Practice's Biggest Headaches Into Businesses, While Still Seeing Patients
Most physicians finish training without a single business class, then spend their careers inside practices run the same way. Dr. Keith Matheny decided to fix…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerCut Out the Middleman, Keep the Patients: Dr. Chloe Kindred on Building a Direct Primary Care Practice From Zero
Most doctors who complain about their employed job never actually leave. Dr. Chloe Kindred did, with no backup plan the first time and a real one the second…
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These Physicians Explain Why They'd Never Go Back to Being Employed
Something kept happening on Offcall that we didn’t plan for. Guest after guest, across totally different specialties, kept circling back to the same decision…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMedicine Is Headed Toward Semi-Autonomous Care. Are Doctors Ready? With Counsel Health CMO Rishi Khakhkhar
A recent JAMA perspective argued that AI already outperforms physicians in many cases. One emergency physician building an AI health company thinks that…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Physician-Owned Practice That Private Equity Can't Buy With Dr. Bradley Block
Private equity has been buying up ENT and allergy practices at a fast clip. One group has stayed independent and grown into the largest player in its space…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerDr. Ari Brown on What Happened to Trust Between Parents and Pediatricians
Dr. Ari Brown is a pediatrician in Austin, Texas, who has run her own independent practice, 411 Pediatrics, for more than 13 years and been a pediatrician for…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerDr. Karandeep Singh Doesn’t Trust AI Blindly. That’s Exactly Why UC San Diego Health Trusts Him With It
Dr. Karandeep Singh is a practicing nephrologist, an informaticist, and the inaugural Chief Health AI Officer at UC San Diego Health, where he also leads the…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerRunning Kaiser's Largest Medical Group Taught Former CEO Dr. Robert Pearl What’s Actually Broken in Healthcare
Dr. Robert Pearl spent 18 years as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the nation's largest physician-led medical group, where he oversaw the care of more…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerDr. Jordan Shlain: Insurance Killed Primary Care, So I Built a Practice Without It
Dr. Jordan Shlain is an internist,= and founder of Private Medical, one of the longest-running concierge practices in the country, and a doctor who has spent…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker51 of the Top 100 Healthcare Companies Had a Physician Founder: Dr. David Lortscher Explains Why
Dr. David Lortscher is a dermatologist turned founder of Curology, one of the first companies to combine telehealth, prescription skincare, and a subscription…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhat Does Good AI in Healthcare Look Like? CHAI CEO Brian Anderson Is Trying to Get Every Hospital in America to Agree
Dr. Brian Anderson is a pediatrician turned CEO of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), the organization behind the push to give every AI tool in your EHR…
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Two Surgeons Explain Why U.S. Healthcare Is So Broken And Can't Be Reformed From Inside, from Wendy Dean's 43cc Podcast
A few weeks ago, Graham sat down with Dr. Wendy Dean, co-founder of Moral Injury in Healthcare, for one of his favorite conversations this show has ever…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker40+ Authors, 9 Specialties, and a Book Written by the Next Generation of Doctors: Emily Leventhal and Rishma Jivan on The Physician's Guide to AI From Offcall and MD+
Emily Leventhal is a third-year MD-PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rishma Jivan is a fourth-year at Rush Medical College who spent…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerYour Patient Trusts ChatGPT More Than You Now: The New Yorker's Dr. Dhruv Khullar on Medical Authority in the Age of AI
Dhruv Khullar is a hospitalist at New York Presbyterian, a health policy researcher at Weill Cornell, and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. That…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerHow Stanford Health Care Is Rethinking What AI Should Actually Do for Clinicians with CIO Dr. Michael Pfeffer
Dr. Michael Pfeffer is Stanford Healthcare's Chief Information Officer and a practicing hospitalist, which means he builds AI tools in the morning and uses…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMeet the Doctor Who Went Anonymous to Say What the Rest of Us Can't: The Story of Dr. Orange
Dr. Orange is a primary care physician, one year out of residency, practicing somewhere in the United States at a health system she can't name. She posts on…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMoral Injury Is Why The Best Doctors Are Disappearing with Dr. Wendy Dean
Dr. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist, author, and the co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding and alleviating clinician…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerNow Is Not the Time for Silence. Dr. John Whyte on the AMA, AI, and the Stakes for Physicians Right Now
Dr. John Whyte is a board-certified internist who has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, policy, media, and technology. He served at the FDA…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerDr. Rana Awdish Almost Died as a Fellow. Now She's Teaching Doctors How to Heal.
Dr. Rana Awdish is a pulmonologist, critical care physician, and Medical Director of Care Experience at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. She is also the author of…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerPhysician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup
Dr. John Dayton is an emergency physician, Stanford innovation fellow, and co-founder of Wildfire Partners, a new healthcare seed fund built around a simple…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerGoing Independent Doesn't Mean Going It Alone. Dr. Basil Kahwash on Fixing Referrals and Building Physician Networks
Most physicians have had a referral disappear. Many have spent days tracking down a colleague just to coordinate care for a single patient. In this episode of…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerRestoring Physician Mental Health and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, With Dr. Stefanie Simmons
Most physicians know a colleague who has struggled. Many know one who didn't make it. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhy The Pitt Is the Show Every Doctor Needs Right Now, with Dr. Jeremy Faust
The Pitt just wrapped its most talked-about season yet - and two ER doctors who lived the real version have thoughts. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerUsing AI to Accurately Code and Measure Physician Outcomes, With Solventum’s Dr. Travis Bias
Most physicians understand that documentation is important. Very few understand the systems that determine what that documentation actually means for how…
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The AI Conversations Every Physician Should Hear: Highlights from Yann LeCun, Dr. Bob Wachter, and Dr. David Rhew
AI is everywhere right now. In your inbox, your EHR, your hospital's strategic plan, and probably your last three CME credits. But most of what physicians hear…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Pay Gap in Medicine Is Real. Dr. Pamela Buchanan Is Done Being Quiet About It
Dr. Pamela Buchanan is an emergency physician, author, founder of Melanated Medicine, and one of the most candid voices in medicine on the things doctors…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerVirtual Neurology at Scale: Raj Narula and Melanie Winningham on How Sevaro Is Transforming Rural Stroke Care
Dr. Raj Narula is a vascular neurologist who walked away from a neurointerventional radiology fellowship to build something that could reach thousands of…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerHow Medical Misinformation Took Over — and What Doctors Can Do to Take It Back w/ Dr. Geeta Nayyar
Medical misinformation isn't a new problem. But somewhere along the way, it stopped being background noise and became the loudest voice in the room. In this…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerInside the First Autonomous AI Prescription Program in America w/ Doctronic CMO Dr. Byron Crowe
Most physicians see AI as something happening to medicine. Dr. Byron Crowe is one of the few who decided to make it happen himself. In this episode of How I…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker99 Ways to Avoid Death: Lessons from Author and ER Physician Dr. Ashely Alker
Most people spend their entire lives trying not to think about death. Emergency physicians don't have that option. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhat Will It Take to Actually Build a Quality Healthcare System? NCQA's New CEO Dr. Vivek Garg Has a Plan
Every quality metric shaping your career, your bonus, and your reputation traces back to one nonprofit most physicians have never thought twice about. In this…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerOB-GYN Influencer: How Doctors Can Find Their Social Media Voice and Fight Wellness Misinformation w/ Dr. Fran
Physicians are making more correcting medical misinformation online than delivering babies. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMove Over LLMS! AI Legends Yann LeCun and Alex LeBrun Debut AMI Labs' Bold Ambitions for World Models in Healthcare
Yann LeCun is one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence. Alex LeBrun is the founder of Nabla and newly announced CEO of AMI Labs, a new AI…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Crisis in Primary Care No One Wants to Own with NEJM’s Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
Primary care sits at the center of medicine and yet no one seems willing to truly own it. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhat Doctors Get Wrong About AI with Robert Wachter, MD
AI has arrived in medicine faster than anyone expected, but speed doesn’t guarantee wisdom. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerFix the System, Not the Women: Shikha Jain on Why Medicine Is Failing Female Physicians
Medicine is full of people doing the right thing inside systems that reward the wrong work. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerER Doctor Running for Congress Diagnoses How to Fix the U.S. Healthcare System, with Dr. Tim Peck
Tim Peck has spent his career practicing medicine where the system is most fragile. A Harvard-trained emergency physician, healthcare entrepreneur, and…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerReimagining the Future of Chronic Disease Care, With Cadence CMO Eve Cunningham, MD
Eve Cunningham has spent her career navigating the hard edges of modern medicine from delivering babies and performing gynecologic surgery to leading large…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhere AI in Medicine Is Actually Headed, with Microsoft’s CMO David Rhew
David Rhew has spent his career at the intersection of frontline medicine and cutting-edge technology. An infectious disease physician by training and now…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMark Cuban: How I’d Reform Healthcare If I Were in Charge (Re-Release)
Merry Christmas! Today we are re-releasing one of our favorite episode of the year. We'll be back next week with a brand new interview to kickoff 2026. Mark…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerEric Topol on Why Doctors Shouldn’t Fear AI — And How It Could Finally Fix Our Broken System
Dr. Eric Topol is one of the most influential voices in modern medicine. Founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of Deep Medicine…
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What Doctors Really Think About AI: Here Are the Surprising Findings From Offcall’s 2025 Physicians AI Report
AI is already shaping how physicians practice. And for the release of The 2025 Physicians AI Report, Graham is taking a different kind of episode: a deep-dive…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Future of Primary Care Is Independent: How Aledade Helps Doctors Break Free From Employed Medicine with Dr. Umar Bowers and Dan Bowles
Independent primary care isn’t a relic of the past — it’s becoming the future of American medicine. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker talks…
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Thank You, Doctors! A Thanksgiving Highlight Reel from Mark Cuban, Shiv Rao, Danielle Ofri and More
This Thanksgiving, we’re pressing pause on the chaos of clinical life to honor the physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers who keep showing up tired…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerBuilding Decision Support AI That Doctors Truly Love and Trust, with Evidently's Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire
Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire is an emergency physician, health-tech leader, and the President and Chief Product Officer at Evidently — a physician-founded company…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Physician AI Conversation: How Doctors Can Drive the AI Era in Medicine Forward with Abridge CEO Dr. Shiv Rao
Dr. Shiv Rao is a cardiologist, entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, the physician-founded AI company transforming how clinical conversations…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerA Rare Look Inside Epic's Vision for Physicians' Future With CMO Dr. Jackie Gerhart
Dr. Jackie Gerhart is a family physician, clinical informaticist, and Chief Medical Officer at Epic — the company whose software powers much of American…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerShould Doctors Unionize? The Story of Why Physicians at Salem Hospital Joined a Union to Take Back Power with Dr. Sean Codier
We're releasing a Physicians AI Whitepaper and need your help! Calling all MDs: Help us shape the future of what AI looks like in medicine. Participate Here!…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerWhy Women Physicians Still Earn Less — and What We Can Do About It With Dr. Vineet Arora
Dr. Vineet Arora is the Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago and one of the nation’s leading voices on equity, leadership, and physician…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerBreaking Free from W-2 Medicine: The Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens with Dr. Ali Chaudhary
Dr. Ali Chaudhary is an emergency physician, entrepreneur, and one of the leading voices helping doctors reclaim control over their careers. After leaving a…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerThe Future of Emergency Medicine: Dr. Alison Haddock on Physician Empowerment, Unionization, and Survival in the ED
Dr. Alison Haddock is an emergency physician, educator, and past president of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She’s spent her career…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerEscaping Physician Exploitation: Private Practice, Pay Transparency, and Entrepreneurship with Dr. Brian Dixon
Dr. Brian Dixon is a psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and one of the boldest physician voices pushing for salary transparency and fairness in medicine. He’s the…
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How Two ER Doctors Created the Top Clinical Tool for Physicians: The Origins of MDCalc with Dr. Joe Habboushe
This episode is sponsored by Abridge - the leading AI platform that drafts structured, clinically useful notes at the point of conversation. MDCalc turns 20…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerFrom Hospital Insider to Physician Advocate: How Ethan Nkana Switched Sides to Champion Doctors’ Voices
Ethan Nkana spent over a decade as a hospital executive negotiating contracts on behalf of health systems. He knew the inside playbook: how administrators…
How I Doctor with Dr. Graham WalkerMedicine’s Broken Promises: Dr. Danielle Ofri on Greed, Trust, and Why the System Survives on Exploiting Clinicians
Dr. Danielle Ofri is an internist at Bellevue Hospital, clinical professor at NYU, and one of the most widely read physician-writers of our time. Through her…