Fixing Healthcare Podcast

Dean Ornish’s life was saved by meaning, connection and lifestyle change. Then he spent 50 years proving those same forces can save others. In this episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Dean Ornish, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and one of the most influential figures in lifestyle medicine. Across his career, Ornish has shown that comprehensive lifestyle changes can help prevent and even reverse major chronic d

Fixing Healthcare is revisiting a Diving Deep episode that feels even more important today than when it first aired in November 2023. At the time, ChatGPT had been available to the public for just one year. Generative AI was still widely viewed as a fascinating but unreliable tool, impressive in some settings and error-prone in others. Many clinicians saw it as a novelty. Some saw it as a threat. Few fully grasped how quickly the technology would advance or how profoundly it might reshape the r

In this week’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl dig for the facts beneath healthcare’s biggest headlines. Today’s show opens with a problem more Americans are facing every year: rising out-of-pocket costs and the growing demand that patients pay before they receive care. Pearl explains that the listener’s concern is increasingly the rule, not the exception. Total health costs per employee now average more than $20,000 a year, including premiums and out-of-p

With healthcare costs projected to rise sharply next year, Fixing Healthcare with cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr revisits one of the most popular conversations of the year: an interview with Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, longtime Shark Tank investor, former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of Cost-Plus Drugs. Cuban has built his healthcare work around a deceptively simple idea: patients, employers and clinicians should be able to see what things actually cost. That should not be

With all the turmoil surrounding healthcare and artificial intelligence, the Fixing Healthcare team is revisiting one of its most provocative conversations: an interview with entrepreneur, investor and technology visionary Vinod Khosla. When Khosla appeared on the show in November 2024, he made a claim that drew immediate criticism from many in medicine: “The most expensive part of the healthcare system is expertise. And expertise can be tamed with AI.” At the time, many listeners and social m

In this episode of Fixing Healthcare, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome back Dr. Rod Rohrich, an internationally recognized plastic surgeon, former editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and national leader in the application and safety of social media for medical advancement. Dr. Rohrich, a returning guest (FHC #57), focuses now on the healthcare concerns most affecting Americans today. Drawing on his experience with patients, physicians and a massive social media audienc