In a challenging healthcare landscape, what keeps doctors inspired? Welcome to Good Medicine, the podcast that reconnects you with the heart and humanity of medicine. We feature conversations with healthcare's most brilliant innovators and storytellers to uncover the essential attributes of great patient care. Join us to cut through the noise and rediscover the profound joy and impact of being a healer.
Good Medicine
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In a challenging healthcare landscape, what keeps doctors inspired? Welcome to Good Medicine, the podcast that reconnects you with the heart and humanity of medicine. We feature conversations with healthcare's most brilliant innovators and storytellers to uncover the essential attributes of great patient care. Join us to cut through the noise and rediscover the profound joy and impact of being a healer.
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July 16, 2026
Dr. Ashish Jha on how to Actually Fix Healthcare and the Future of Medicine
<p>Are we any more prepared for the next pandemic than we were in 2019? In this episode of Good Medicine, Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna sits down with Dr. Ashish Jha — the former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and former dean of the Brown University School of Public Health — for a candid conversation about the risks we're ignoring and the health system we can still fix. Jha recalls the phone call from President Biden, explains why he left academia to build an AI-powered biodetection system against engineered pathogens, and warns what US withdrawal from the WHO really costs. Then he unpacks his ten-part Boston Globe series on bending the health care cost curve: hospital consolidation and site-neutral payments, capping commercial prices, nonprofit hospital status, prior authorization, administrative waste, value-based care, GLP-1s, and expanding scope of practice. Along the way he makes a deliberately bipartisan case designed to annoy everyone a little. A conversation about medicine, public health, AI, and affordability.</p><p>New episodes are released monthly, wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p>For more from Roon, visit: https://www.roon.com/</p><p>Sign up for our substack: https://rohanramakrishna.substack.com/</p><p>Find us on Instagram and X: @roondoctors</p><p>If you have a question, comment, or suggestion for a future guest, please email us: jane@roon.care.</p><p><br></p><p>(00:00) Intro</p><p>(00:26) Getting the call to join the White House</p><p>(03:15) What he loved and found hard about government</p><p>(06:21) Defending policies he personally disagreed with</p><p>(07:33) Are we ready for the next pandemic?</p><p>(09:46) CDC cuts and leaving the WHO</p><p>(10:50) Building AI-driven biodetection</p><p>(13:16) The Boston Globe series: why he wrote it</p><p>(17:18) Is rising health care spending actually a problem?</p><p>(19:33) Hospital consolidation and market power</p><p>(22:20) Site-neutral payments</p><p>(23:48) Should hospitals lose nonprofit status?</p><p>(26:34) Medicare, Medicaid, and capping commercial prices</p><p>(29:28) Making sure savings reach patients</p><p>(31:30) Insurance across state lines and vertical integration</p><p>(34:39) What makes value-based care actually work</p><p>(37:08) Prevention, GLP-1s, and long payoff timelines</p><p>(39:13) End-of-life care and marginal therapies</p><p>(42:59) Prior authorization and administrative waste</p><p>(45:07) Fixing the broken claims and billing system</p><p>(47:43) The future of independent physicians</p><p>(49:50) Regulation and its unintended effects</p><p>(51:46) Scope of practice and the physician shortage</p><p>(55:39) AI, malpractice, and physician-level care</p><p>(57:09) Quick Hits: restaurants, books, and mentors</p>
June 25, 2026
Dr. Ashwin Vasan on Public Health as a Moral Endeavor
<p>What happens when a doctor trained to fight HIV in rural Uganda takes charge of public health for the largest city in America? In this episode of Good Medicine, Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna sits down with Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the 44th Health Commissioner of New York City, whose path ran from trailing his immigrant neonatologist mother through Chicago's ICUs to delivering AIDS treatment alongside mentors Paul Farmer and Jim Kim. Vasan reflects on the WHO, PEPFAR, and the real promise of ending AIDS in our lifetime, then turns to the hardest years of his career: leading the NYC Health Department through the pandemic's backlash, launching HealthyNYC to reverse falling life expectancy, confronting Black maternal mortality, and building TeenSpace for youth mental health. He also makes a candid case on the MAHA movement, nutrition, and taking on the corporate food system. A conversation about medicine, public health, AI, and why health is fundamentally a moral project.</p><p>New episodes are released every other week, wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p>For more from Roon, visit: https://www.roon.com/</p><p>Sign up for our substack: https://rohanramakrishna.substack.com/</p><p>Find us on Instagram and X: @roondoctors</p><p>If you have a question, comment, or suggestion for a future guest, please email us: jane@roon.care.</p><p><br></p><p>(00:00) Intro</p><p>(03:02) Trailing his mom through Chicago's ICUs</p><p>(05:05) The immigrant physician's contribution to American medicine</p><p>(08:41) From development economics to public health</p><p>(12:54) Partners In Health in Uganda, Rwanda, and Lesotho</p><p>(14:31) The beat-up Camry and a Jay-Z playlist</p><p>(16:30) Building trust with patient communities</p><p>(18:45) Inside the WHO and the case for reform</p><p>(22:52) Can global health delivery survive US funding cuts?</p><p>(26:35) PEPFAR, lenacapavir, and ending AIDS in our lifetime</p><p>(29:42) Why public health is a moral endeavor</p><p>(31:57) The call from Mary Bassett to join NYC Health</p><p>(35:49) What surprised him as Health Commissioner</p><p>(38:57) Protesters at home and his daughter's wisdom</p><p>(41:31) Launching HealthyNYC and a life expectancy North Star</p><p>(48:03) Confronting Black maternal mortality</p><p>(51:35) Why healthcare affordability is a public health issue</p><p>(53:16) Hospital price transparency and medical debt</p><p>(56:12) TeenSpace and the youth mental health crisis</p><p>(01:01:53) AI as prevention infrastructure</p><p>(01:04:14) Modernizing public health data systems</p><p>(01:07:46) MAHA, nutrition, and where medicine dropped the ball</p><p>(01:13:14) Would he work with RFK Jr.'s HHS?</p><p>(01:15:41) Quick Hits: mandates, mentors, and book picks</p><p>(01:18:19) Why a physician community like Roon matters</p><p><br></p>
May 28, 2026
Dr. Jim Kim on Bending the Arc of Global Health
<p>What if the impossible is just an argument waiting to be lost? Dr. Jim Kim — co-founder of Partners In Health alongside Paul Farmer, former president of the World Bank, former president of Dartmouth College, and former head of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization — joins Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna and Vikram Bhaskaran for a sweeping conversation that traces the birth of the modern global health movement. From his childhood as the son of Korean refugees in a small Iowa farming town, to smuggling sputum samples through Miami customs, to the landmark Gates Foundation grant that cracked open multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment for the world's poorest, Dr. Kim shows how a handful of stubborn idealists bent the arc of history and saved millions of lives. He also reflects on what anthropology taught him about power, why the fight to treat HIV in Africa mattered, and how the dismantling of USAID and the rise of anti-science sentiment are forcing a new generation of physicians to scheme, plot, and reclaim their role as the natural attorneys of the poor.</p><p>New episodes released wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p>For more from Roon, visit: https://www.roon.com/</p><p>Sign up for our substack: https://rohanramakrishna.substack.com/</p><p>Find us on Instagram and X: @roondoctors</p><p>If you have a question, comment, or suggestion for a future guest, please email us: jane@roon.care.</p><p>--</p><p>(00:00) Intro</p><p>(03:32) Welcome to Good Medicine, Dr. Jim Kim</p><p>(04:22) Korean refugee parents and a childhood in Iowa</p><p>(09:17) Muscatine, civil rights, and an early sense of justice</p><p>(11:30) Quarterback of a 56-game losing streak</p><p>(12:20) Summer science camp and finding his tribe</p><p>(14:34) Look in the mirror — his father's reality check</p><p>(17:19) Anthropology, Arthur Kleinman, and the MD-PhD path</p><p>(19:59) What anthropology taught him about every room</p><p>(22:25) The village idiot among economists at the World Bank</p><p>(24:39) His mother, Zhu Xi, and a friendship with Xi Jinping</p><p>(28:06) Meeting Paul Farmer and founding Partners In Health</p><p>(33:18) From Haiti to a squatter settlement in Lima</p><p>(35:25) An MDR-TB outbreak nobody wanted to admit</p><p>(38:19) Why the global health establishment pushed back</p><p>(42:30) The sputum mule and the Massachusetts State Lab</p><p>(46:46) If we fail, this will be off the table</p><p>(47:45) Bill Foege, Bill Gates, and the $45 million grant</p><p>(50:00) HIV is next — and the Lazarus effect</p><p>(52:00) Fighting the same battle to treat HIV in Africa</p><p>(54:00) Pool purchasing, ACT UP, and the path to PEPFAR</p><p>(56:35) Winning the WHO and launching 3 by 5</p><p>(1:00:28) The new crisis in global health funding</p><p>(1:01:42) The arc of history doesn't bend on its own</p><p>(1:08:24) How young physicians can get started today</p><p>(1:10:25) Mental health, cancer care, and Rwanda</p><p>(1:14:16) Why Roon could be world-changing</p><p>(1:19:06) Lightning round: books, leaders, one wish</p><p>(1:22:19) Physicians as the natural attorneys of the poor</p>
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