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The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
One difficult problem at a time. Sonny Saggar, MD examines difficult questions across medicine, AI, business, systems, and beyond, using research, evidence, pattern analysis, and systems thinking to make complex situations easier to understand.
Episodes
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Your Biggest Customer Demands 20% Off. Do You Give In?
Your biggest customer accounts for 40% of your revenue. They demand a 20% price cut and give you 10 days to decide. Agree, and you could lose 80% of the profit…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Starting Over Doesn’t Mean Starting from Nothing
I’ve had quite enough practice at starting again. I wouldn’t recommend the course. The tuition is outrageous. But losing a great deal doesn’t mean losing…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
If AI Can Do 80% of Your Job, Why Would I Hire You?
If AI can do 80% of your job, what makes the remaining 20% valuable? That is the question I think more people should be asking. Judgment. Trust. Persuasion…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
The Day I Realized I Didn’t Want My Old Life Back
For 25 years, I was an emergency physician. Then came divorce, federal prison, and an abrupt separation from the medical world I had built my identity around…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
If AI Can Do 80% of Your Job, Why Would I Hire You?
If AI can do 80% of the work you currently do, what makes the remaining 20% valuable? That may be a more useful question than simply asking whether AI is going…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
I Became Four People for Labor Day. That’s the Point.
This Labor Day, I found myself thinking about what work is becoming. AI is not simply eliminating tasks. It is changing where the value sits. Work that used to…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Who the Hell Is Tommy Hilfiger? The Brand Is the Brand
When I was a teenager, Tommy Hilfiger was everywhere, and I kept wondering: who the hell is Tommy Hilfiger, and why does his name mean anything? Years later, I…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Who the Hell Is Tommy Hilfiger?
When I was a teenager, everybody seemed to wear Tommy Hilfiger. I remember wondering: why does this particular name mean anything? Years later, I realized…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Before You Trust AI, Give It a Referee
AI can give you a polished, confident answer and still be wrong. The question is not just whether the AI sounds intelligent. It is: What checks the work before…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
I’m Not a Web Designer. So Why Am I Building Websites in an Hour?
I never set out to become a web designer. But people started asking me to build websites, and I realized that AI has completely changed the economics of the…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
AI Won’t Replace You. Someone Who Knows How to Use It Might.
You do not need to become an AI expert. You need to become exceptionally good at using AI inside something you already understand. Recently, I have heard the…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Your Experts Disagree. Don’t Hire a Third One Yet.
A difficult case can have tens of thousands of pages, conflicting experts, competing medical explanations, and a client waiting for a decision. My approach is…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Rich on Paper, Broke on Tuesday
A commercial property can look healthy on paper and still run out of cash. In this talk, I walk through a simple example: a $5 million building with $3 million…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Your Project Is 6 Months Late. Do You Fix It, Replace It, or Kill It?
A project is months late, over budget, and everyone keeps saying it is “almost there.” What do you do when you have 48 hours to decide whether to keep funding…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
AI Can Make You Fast Before It Makes You Good
AI can make a new employee dramatically faster before they have developed the judgment to know whether the output is actually good. Andrew Wang, CEO and…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Maybe AI Isn’t the Bottleneck. Maybe the Document Is.
We are spending enormous amounts of money making AI more powerful, then handing it documents that were never designed for machines to understand. This episode…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
A Second Career for Physicians: Expert Witness Work Without Quitting Medicine
You do not have to leave medicine to create a second professional lane. Today's episode explains how physicians can use the judgment they have spent years…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
When Smart Leaders Disagree, Find the Variable
This Loom addresses how a CEO should handle a disagreement between the CFO and the head of sales about cutting spending during a bad quarter. Instead of…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Say the Hard Thing Early: How to Stop Wasting Months on a Bad Deal
In serious business negotiations, avoiding the uncomfortable issue rarely makes it disappear. It usually just wastes time. In this talk, Sonny Saggar explains…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Revenue Is Down 20%. What Should the CEO Do First?
Revenue is down 20%. The CFO wants cuts. Sales wants more investment. Operations warns that cutting too deeply could break service. The wrong move is to react…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Stop Wasting Job Applications: Verify, Match, Reach
Most people track how many jobs they apply for. A better question is: how far does each application actually get? This Loom gives you a simple three-step…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Will AI Take Your Job? Ask These 3 Questions
Will AI take your job? Maybe that is the wrong question. Most jobs are really bundles of tasks. A better way to think about AI is to look at the work you…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Stop Trying to Save Everything: The Turnaround Rule for Business and Real Estate
When a business or property is in trouble, the instinct is often to save everything. That can be exactly the wrong move. The better question is simple: If I…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
AI Gives You More. Paper Helps You Decide.
AI is brilliant at expanding your options. It can research, summarize, compare, brainstorm, and give you twenty possible ways forward in seconds. But…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Bread, Butter & Jam: Why Real Estate Can Make You Rich on Paper and Cash-Poor
Commercial real estate can make you wealthy on paper while leaving you surprisingly short of cash. In this talk, I introduce a simple framework for…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
AI Isn’t Killing the Career Ladder. It’s Moving the First Rung.
AI may not eliminate the career ladder. It may simply move the first rung. Much of traditional entry-level work involved drafting, summarizing, formatting…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
What To Do When Your Tribe Tells You Who You're Supposed to Be
This episode began with a question brought to me by an investment manager of Indian origin: what do you actually owe the racial, cultural, religious, or social…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Commercial Loan Coming Due? Do These 5 Things Now
Commercial loan coming due? Don’t wait for the bank to tell you that you have a problem. Roughly $875 billion in commercial and multifamily mortgage debt is…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
When Your HOA Goes Rogue: Can They Really Do That?
What do you do when the organization enforcing the rules appears to stop following the rules itself? In this episode, Sonny Saggar, MD, Professional Problem…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Where Good People Create Bad Systems
Some of the most dangerous failures in organizations happen not within departments, but between them. Medicine learned this with structured handoffs such as…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Sometimes the Business Isn’t Broken. The Financing Is.
Sometimes the Business Isn’t Broken. The Financing Is. A business can be running out of cash without having a broken business model. In this episode, Sonny…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
Help Vaccine Hesitant Parents: Trust, Listen, Recommend, Make It Easy
How do we help parents who are unsure about vaccinating their children?I use a four-part approach: trust, listen, recommend, and make it easy.According to the…
- The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem
The Biggest AI Mistake Smart People Make
Smart people can make a surprisingly basic mistake with AI: confusing a confident answer with a reliable one. In today’s difficult problem, Sonny Saggar, MD…