Care Beyond Barriers
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Join the leaders of Heidi as they unpack critical global healthcare issues and trends, and discuss how technological advances are shaping the future of care across the world for the better. Moderated by Christina Farr.</span></p>
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May 26, 2026
AI, Accountability & the Future of Doctors: Will AI Replace Doctors?
Once dismissed as Silicon Valley provocation, the question of ‘will AI replace doctors’, now feels a very real possibility. As large language models pass licensing exams and multimodal systems interpret scans at scale, the panel examines which parts of medicine are most exposed to automation and which remain deeply human. Diagnostic specialties may shift first. Clinical knowledge can be scaled. But accountability, judgment under uncertainty, communication of bad news, and ethical trade offs resist simple optimisation. So what does the future physician role look like?. Key Topics: Vinod Khosla’s prediction that AI would eliminate doctors AGI timelines and multimodal models Radiology, pathology, and diagnostic automation Why no doctor will practice without AI Psychiatry and the limits of avatar therapy High-stakes procedural care (intubation, intensive care) Accountability and liability barriers The “reward function” problem in healthcare AI Empathy vs optimisation Judgment, truth-telling, and delivering bad news Relevant Links and Resources: Connect with us: Find all things Heidi at heidihealth.com Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Tom Kelly on LinkedIn Connect with Christina Farr: LinkedIn Second Opinion Media website Lifers Podcast Twitter/X Instagram Check out Christina’s book 'The Storytellers Advantage'. Connect with Dr Hannah Allen on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Simon Kos on LinkedIn Resources: Vinod Khosla 2012 prediction: https://fortune.com/2012/12/04/technology-will-replace-80-of-what-doctors-do/ Updated Vinod Khosla 2025 prediction that AI will replace 80% of jobs by 2030: https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/silicon-valley-investor-vinod-khosla-ai-job-prediction-interview/ AI Passing Medical Exams - ChatGPT Performance on the USMLE (PLOS Digital Health): https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000198 AI for Diabetic Retinopathy & Eye Disease Detection (ScienceDirect): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666914525002337 AI vs Radiologists in Imaging Interpretation (Lancet Digital Health Review): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00142-6/fulltext Stanford AI Index Report (Annual State of AI): https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index AI Alignment & Reward Optimization (OpenAI / Technical Overview): https://openai.com/index/learning-from-human-preferences/
May 12, 2026
Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Loneliness, Prevention & the Future of Medicine
Loneliness. Housing instability. Food insecurity. Obesity. Chronic disease. Increasingly, these issues don’t land in community centres or social services, they land in GP clinics and emergency departments. What happens when medicine becomes the catch all for problems rooted in social fragmentation? From eight minute consultations that can’t possibly solve loneliness, to pharmacists becoming surrogate community anchors, to the economics of GLP-1 drugs as population-level interventions, the panel examines where the line between health and social intervention is blurring and whether healthcare was ever designed, or can continue, to carry this load. Key Topics: Healthcare “plugging the gaps” of social collapse Loneliness as a public health issue Transactional, time-limited care models Social prescribing and community activation Food access and the “Tesco intervention” story GLP-1s as preventative health investment Lifelong medication and stigma Lifestyle modification through pharmacology AI companionship and digital social support The rise of lifestyle medicine and neighbourhood care models Relevant Links and Resources: Connect with us: Find all things Heidi at heidihealth.com Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Tom Kelly on LinkedIn Connect with Christina Farr: LinkedIn Second Opinion Media website Lifers Podcast Twitter/X Instagram Check out Christina’s book 'The Storytellers Advantage'. Connect with Dr Hannah Allen on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Simon Kos on LinkedIn Resources: WHO – Social Isolation and Loneliness as Public Health Priorities: https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/demographic-change-and-healthy-ageing/social-isolation-and-loneliness Social Prescribing - NHS England: https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing/ USDA Food Access Research Atlas – Food Deserts & Healthy Food Access: https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/42711/12701_ap036b_1_.pdf How Japan Is Automating Elder Care (MIT Technology Review): https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065135/japan-automating-eldercare-robots/ GLP-1 Medications & Prevention - Semaglutide for Obesity (STEP Trials, NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183
April 28, 2026
Trust, Medical Error & the Future of Clinical Care
Trust in healthcare has fractured between patients and clinicians, clinicians and institutions, and across society more broadly. In the wake of COVID, public health messaging, misinformation, politicisation and time poor consultations have left many patients sceptical and many clinicians defensive. Where did that erosion begin? And how it shows up today: in misdiagnosis, in eight minute consults, in ego, and in incentive structures. The panel asks whether a clinician AI partnership could help rebuild trust by extending time, improving accuracy, making evidence transparent, and shifting medicine away from paternalism toward shared understanding. Key Topics: COVID-era public health messaging and the long tail of mistrust Medicine as a “special club” vs. transparency in the digital age Misdiagnosis, dismissal, and why patients feel gaslit Medical error and the “Swiss cheese” model of harm prevention The eight minute consult and the limits of factory style care Asynchronous follow-up and extended time horizons in care Ego, hierarchy, and cultural resistance to AI Antibiotics, incentives, and the tension between doing right by the patient vs. the system Meeting patients where they are including digital platforms Relevant Links and Resources: Connect with us: Find all things Heidi at heidihealth.com Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Tom Kelly on LinkedIn Connect with Christina Farr: LinkedIn Second Opinion Media website Lifers Podcast Twitter/X Instagram Check out Christina’s book 'The Storytellers Advantage'. Connect with Dr Hannah Allen on LinkedIn Connect with Dr Simon Kos on LinkedIn Resources: To Err Is Human (Institute of Medicine report) - highlighting rates of medical error in the US: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9728/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system Understanding the Swiss Cheese model and it’s application to patient care: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8514562/ Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance Java Health Forum article on ‘Healing the Growing Gap in Physician Trust’: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2843194 Interview on ‘Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care’: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1109283
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