The Doctor's Lounge
Hosted by Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio and DiGiorgio · The Doctor's Lounge
4.9from 171 ratings
- 81
- Episodes
- 26
- Transcribed
- 171
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About The Doctor's Lounge
Where scalpels meet systems — and physicians say what they really think. Co-hosted by Anish Koka, MD & Anthony DiGiorgio, DO. Candid talks on healthcare policy, reform, physician autonomy & patient care.
- Publisher
- The Doctor's Lounge
- Category
- business · health & fitness · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 9 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 27 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
26 of 81 episodes have a transcript.
27 Sept 2026
From Addiction to Advocacy: Tom Wolf's Journey
22 Sept 2026
You Can't HSA That Away: Rachel Rosenthal on Medicare, Trade-offs, and Zero-COVID Singapore
21 Sept 2026
Real Doc Speaks: Bureaucracy, Bad Incentives, and the Fight to Keep Doctors in Charge
Inside a recent episode
The Cost Cure: Ashish Jha's Case for Price Caps, Competition, and Biosurveillance
Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I really have thought a lot about the scope of practice laws we have. Everybody gets very defensive about it. I don't want anybody else doing things. Look, there are certain things only physicians can do given their training. there are lots of things that physicians end up doing that we don't really need to or want to be doing that I think others can. So there's a set of ideas there. There's a set of ideas about how to make insurance work better, allowing for things like cash payments for medically approved services that doctors recommend, allowing that to count towards your deductible, right? […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Doctor's Lounge
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- Tom Wolf
- Rachel Rosenthal
- James O'Leary
- Ashish Jha
- Tom Oliverson
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 55 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 116 ratings
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Who hosts The Doctor's Lounge?
Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio and DiGiorgio host the show. Published by The Doctor's Lounge.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does The Doctor's Lounge take guests?
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