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Ground TruthsEric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)Thanks to so many of you who joined our live conversation with Devi Sridhar! Professor Devi Sridhar is the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Over the past 2 decades she has become one of the world’s leading authorities and advisors for promoting global health. Her new book —How No to Die Too Soon—provides a unique outlook for extending healthspan with a global perspective admixed with many personal stories. We talked about lifestyle factors with lessons from Japan (on diet) and the Netherlands (on physical activity), ultra-processed foods, air pollution and wa...2025-06-1737 min
Discourse Magazine PodcastFortress and Frontier: Price Transparency in HealthcareIn this sixth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Keith Smith about his innovative pricing strategy at the Surgical Center of Oklahoma and the economic theory behind those pricing decisions. Smith founded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where he works as an anesthesiologist. He is also co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, whose mission is to promote transparency in healthcare and accelerate the speed and growth of the free market healthcare revolution.Previous installments of the Fortress and...2021-08-131h 02
Forgotten AmericaWhy American Health Care is Broken and How to Fix ItRobert Graboyes, a healthcare economist for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, joins Garrett today to discuss the health care system in America. He talks about its purpose, why it’s broken, how being a doctor is similar to and different from being a pilot, and the high stakes of getting it right. They also discuss such topics as innovation in health care, which level of government should be responsible for health care regulation and reform, and the history and effects of certificate of need laws. If you are constantly frustrated by American health care, this is the ep...2021-07-201h 20Discourse Magazine PodcastFortress and Frontier: Healthcare’s Reluctant RevolutionIn this fifth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Eric Topol about the slow progress of medicine, how machine learning will improve healthcare, the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the triumph of the mRNA vaccines and much more. Topol is a cardiologist, scientist and author of several books, including “The Patient Will See You Now” and “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.” He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of molecula...2021-07-0955 min
Medicine and the MachineIt's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling LessonGlobal health expert Devi Sridhar discusses with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the countries that took the threat seriously from the get-go have fared better in loss of life and economic recovery.2021-03-1843 min