What do golf, horses, and healthcare have in common? Private equity, baby. And whether you're a patient, a practitioner, a player - or, goodness help you, all three - chances are you've experienced a change in service, quality, and delivery. Buckle up, Wendy and Matt have a rant straight from the heart for this one.

Will and Kristin Flanary are internet sensations as Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken, posting hilarious and pointedly insightful videos about the physician and patient experience. What's less known is the how the families of patients and physicians share in those experiences along the way. Kristin joins us to talk about her work advocating for humanity centered healthcare for all involved in the healthcare system, and her personal experience as a co-survivor of medical trauma.

Reflection and introspection are not a daily practice for many of us. But would it be worth strengthening those skills if they helped mitigate moral injury? Wendy and Matt discuss how such practice can keep everyday work grounded in our oaths and alert us to the earliest signals of a slide toward transgression.

Forced arbitration is the secret justice system you've never heard of, and it's likely working against you. Brendan Ballou, former DOJ prosecutor and author of When Companies Run the Courts: How Forced Arbitration Became America's Secret Justice System exposes these little known clauses hidden in practically every service agreement we sign, explains the harms they can create, and tells us when and how to fight them.

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mark Hertling spent decades leading soldiers in combat and across cultures before he transitioned to healthcare leadership when he retired from the US Army. He joins us to talk about the professional parallels he's witnessed along the way: the oaths we take, the life and death situations, the bonding among colleagues, the importance of our institutions, and the betrayals that threaten them both.

Leadership matters. Steve Edwards, former President and CEO of CoxHealth, a $2 Billion Missouri-based health system, joins us to talk about his 30 years of leadership in healthcare, and how he balanced the books while never losing sight of the mission.

Sebastian Junger is a master storyteller whose vast body of work speaks to our humanity and collectivism – loyalty, belonging, meaning, connection - and what we lose without them. Junger joins us to talk about what he's learned from war, history, and a near-death experience, and that whether as physicians or soldiers, we ultimately strive to live "in a world where human relations are entirely governed by whether you can trust the other person with your life."

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DPC. Concierge Care. Upselling services. Are these new models the answer? Wendy and Matt break down what these new approaches mean for physicians and patients and how overturning a section of the ACA may be the best place to start.

Dr. Victor Montori, Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic's KER Unit, and author of Why We Revolt, joins us to talk about his patient revolution and why 'deliberate' care is one of the strongest acts of defiance we can deploy against a broken healthcare system.

Investigative journalist Gardiner Harris joins us to talk about No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, an explosive expose of an organization whose image as a ""child-friendly" baby company" contrasts against "reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions."