Jonathan Sackier is a surgeon who helped build one of the world’s first surgical robots, and accidentally became a startup founder along the way.

In this episode, Jonathan explains how MRI-guided surgical robot technology is changing Parkinson’s treatment, why most healthcare innovation fails, and what entrepreneurship taught him about people, money and humility.

From turning $1 into $17,500, to speaking before Congress, to debunking vaccine myths, this is a raw, funny and deeply human conversation about the future of medicine.

📝 Show Notes:

03:00 Why Medicine Is Terrible at Communicating With Patients

06:00 Why Some Countries Innovate and Others Fall Behind

09:00 Why Medical Innovation Is So Hard

10:00 The Hidden Cost of FDA Approval & Medical Regulation

11:35 Building an MRI-Safe Surgical Robot

12:30 How Deep Brain Stimulation Works for Parkinson’s

13:20 First-Ever MRI-Guided Brain Surgery Explained

15:00 The 5 Rules Jonathan Lives By

16:20 The “No A**hole Rule” for Business & Life

17:00 The #1 Mistake Healthcare Startups Make

18:10 How to Actually Succeed in Health Tech

19:30 The Biggest Healthcare Myth

20:25 What Jonathan Would Do If He Wasn’t a Surgeon

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