This Thanksgiving, we’re pressing pause on the chaos of clinical life to honor the physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers who keep showing up tired, hopeful, frustrated,and inspired. 

In this special “Best Of” episode, Dr. Graham Walker revisits five conversations that have sparked the most messages, DMs, forwarded links, and late-night reflection from our listeners. These clips come from leaders who’ve helped all of us re-examine the work, the system, and ourselves:

Featured Episodes & Links

Dr. Shiv Rao is a cardiologist, entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, the physician-founded AI company transforming how clinical conversations become care.

Listen to The Physician AI Conversation: How Doctors Can Drive the AI Era in Medicine Forward with Abridge CEO Dr. Shiv Rao

Dr. Danielle Ofri is an internist at Bellevue Hospital, clinical professor at NYU, and one of the most widely read physician-writers of our time. 

Listen to Medicine’s Broken Promises: Dr. Danielle Ofri on Greed, Trust, and Why the System Survives on Exploiting Clinicians

Mark Cuban is a business mogul, the “Shark” every entrepreneur wants to make a deal with, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and, most recently, an online pharmacy CEO.

Listen to Mark Cuban: How I’d Reform Healthcare If I Were in Charge

Dr. Vineet Arora is the Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago and one of the nation’s leading voices on equity, leadership, and physician well-being.

Listen to Why Women Physicians Still Earn Less — and What We Can Do About It With Dr. Vineet Arora

Dr. Ali Chaudhary is an emergency physician, entrepreneur, and one of the leading voices helping doctors reclaim control over their careers.

Listen to Breaking Free from W-2 Medicine: The Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens with Dr. Ali Chaudhary

What You’ll LearnDr. Shiv Rao

• Why AI adoption is accelerating inside health systems faster than anyone expected and how clinicians can shape the guardrails, not get steamrolled by them.

Dr. Danielle Ofri

• The “unbroken chain” of clinicians and why modern healthcare quietly relies on exploiting professionalism to keep the system from collapsing.

Mark Cuban

• How insurance design, pre-auth delays, and underpayment schemes shift financial risk onto physicians while confusing patients — and why it’s not your fault.

Dr. Vineet Arora

• How women residents fall three months behind in milestone advancement by graduation — and the narrative biases in feedback that fuel the promotion gap.

Dr. Ali Chaudhary

• Why the traditional W-2 model is structurally unstable — and how locums work can restore autonomy, income stability, and control over your life.

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