Healthcare is full of personal stories, and moments that spurred someone to take on a career industry. But I'll actually start with the experience that spurred my podcast: I was listening to a physician panel. Twenty minutes into an hour panel discussion, we were still on long-winded introductions. The doctors were sharing ALL of their education and ALL of their professional roles. It was a whole lot of "me me me". Worse yet, they were touching upon a variety of philosophy and macro trends. Not a single tangible point was made. The audience didn't learn one new thing that was relevant to them. The sad part is that -in many ways- I heard this presentation before. It was yet another long-winded theoretical conversation about what is wrong with healthcare and what needs to change ...philosophically! It wasn't wrong. It wasn't unintelligent. It just wasn't useful. That's when I decided to start my podcast, and it very much parallels my style as a healthcare consultant: We have to get out of these blowhard conversations in healthcare and start talking about real things, real products, real business, and real people. Things that we can relate to, learn from, and take action to make healthcare better.