Meet the All-New Second Opinion!
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalisa Merelli
10 min read
We’re live. Welcome to the all-new Second Opinion.
Matthew Rothstein, VP of Engineering at Akido, on building the first AI native health system
Matthew Rothstein, VP of Engineering at Akido, joins Christina Farr to talk about what changes when a technology company becomes a health system.
How to Build a Successful Clinician Advisory Board
Christina Farr and Jennifer Fields
9 min read
Passive advisors are out, co-builders are in.
Mark Bertolini, Oscar Health, on dismantling the 80-year-old mistake at the heart of US healthcare Episode
Mark Bertolini, CEO of Oscar Health, joins Chrissy to unpack healthcare’s broken employer-sponsored system, the future of portable coverage, ICHRA, and the personal story that shaped his push for hospice reform at Aetna.
Peptide Therapy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Watch the full webinar Peptide therapies have moved from niche biohacking circles into mainstream medicine, reshaping conversations around weight management,
Lauren Makler, Cofertility, on making egg freezing free
Lauren Makler, Co-Founder & CEO of Cofertility, joins Christina Farr to ask why having a baby with medical help now costs as much as a house, and what a fairer system would look like.
Rounds: An Industry Scan, The Next Full Body Scan, Keaton Bedell and Joe DeVivo
Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis are joined by Bridge CEO Keaton Bedell and Butterfly Network CEO Joe DeVivo to debate whether full-body scanning is actually good for you — and how Butterfly’s technology ended up inside Midjourney’s new ultrasound scanner.
Amit Phull, Doximity, on how his team built a product that reaches 85% of US physicians
Amit Phull, Chief Clinical Experience Officer at Doximity and a practicing emergency medicine physician, joins Christina Farr to talk about how the company reached 85% of US physicians and what it plans to do with that reach in the AI era.
Healthcare sends 9 billion faxes a year. Delaware has a better idea
Christina Farr talks with Smart Health Network CEO Paul Meyer, Delaware’s first Surgeon General Dr. Neil Hockstein, and prior authorization manager Aretha Rochester about why prior auth reform keeps failing — and Delaware’s plan to build a shared, Visa-style prior auth utility.
ChatGPT is already the largest mental health provider in America | Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Pelago CEO
Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of Pelago, joins Chrissy to talk about why substance use disorder is one of the most stigmatized and least-treated chronic conditions in healthcare, despite touching roughly one in five people.
Dr. Aartik Sarma, UCSF pulmonologist, on the $500M bet to cure the common cold
Aartik Sarma, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, joins Christina Farr for a short special edition on Intercept, a new $500 million initiative from a coalition of tech companies including Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic aimed at finally cracking the common cold and flu.
What 3 doctors actually think about Midjourney's new body scanner
Christina Farr brings together three clinicians with genuinely different views: cardiologist Venkatesh Murthy, rheumatologist Paul Sufka, and internist Sandeep Palakodeti, to react to Midjourney, the whole-body scanning startup that went viral after an Elon Musk retweet.