wRight to the Root

About wRight to the Root

In a cryptic world, Stephanie Wright is a beacon of authenticity. Her no-nonsense approach to practice management has made her a bold authority on understanding and solving complex medical industry problems. Join Stephanie as she takes her expertise on the road to explore hot topics in medical care with experts around the globe. In each episode Stephanie and her guests cover topics like insurance, healthcare tourism, education domestically versus abroad, international care systems & more.

Publisher

Stephanie Wright

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2025

Latest episode

6 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Apr 2026

   Corporate Greed vs. Patient Care: The Illusion of Coverage

   We’ve been sold the idea that insurance protects us. In this powerful talk, Stephanie Wright uncovers how “coverage” is often an illusion; where algorithms override doctors, patients are left with the bill, and corporate profits come first. From her own cancer journey to real-world patient stories, she exposes a system that benefits from confusion and silence and shows how speaking up is the one thing it can’t control.

2. 

   12 Feb 2026

   Insulin Under Fire, Diabetes Care in Crisis Zones with MSF’s Dr. Phillipa Boulle

   On this episode of wRight to the Root, Stephanie Wright sits down with Dr. Phillipa Boulle, a non-communicable disease (NCD) advisor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Switzerland, based in Geneva, to expose what it really takes to treat chronic illness in the middle of crisis. Dr. Boulle breaks down the growing global diabetes emergency, including why the vast majority of people living with diabetes are in low and middle income countries, and why sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing the fastest rise. She explains how MSF teams work to deliver care in war zones, displacement camps, and protracted humanitarian emergencies, where access to insulin, monitoring supplies, and even consistent food can disappear overnight. This conversation goes straight to the root of the problem, including: Why insulin access is still dangerously limited and overpriced, especially for people with type 1 diabetes who need it to survive The hidden crisis of missing glucose monitoring tools, making insulin use far more dangerous in humanitarian settings How emergencies like Gaza reveal life-threatening gaps in continuity of care when people are forced to flee repeatedly MSF research showing insulin can remain stable at higher temperatures than labels suggest, changing what is possible in settings without refrigeration The double standard in diabetes care, and why patients in the harshest conditions often get the hardest-to-use tools What’s at stake in the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs (September in New York), and why emergency diabetes care must be explicitly included How patient advocacy and government pressure can shift corporate behavior, and how Americans can support global health equity A powerful, grounded conversation about survival, dignity, and the urgent fight to treat healthcare as a human right, not a business.

3. 

   28 Jan 2026

   Inside the World Medical Association with Dr. Ashok Philip, WMA President

   I flew all the way to Montevideo, Uruguay to sit down face-to-face with Dr. Ashok Philip (Malaysia), President of the World Medical Association, and this conversation goes straight to the root of why healthcare systems keep failing the people they are supposed to serve. The World Medical Association (WMA) was born in the shadow of the Nuremberg Trials and the medical atrocities of WWII, and that origin story still shapes its mission today: defend medical ethics, protect physician independence, and advocate for patients across borders. Dr. Philip breaks down what the WMA actually does, why it is often confused with the WHO (it is not the WHO), and how a global network of 115 member medical associations tries to push back when governments, corporations, and insurers prioritize “quick and cheap” over what patients truly need. If you have ever felt powerless watching insurance denials, bureaucratic delays, cookie-cutter care, or political posturing hijack medicine, this episode will hit home. And if you are a clinician, this is your reminder that policy is not optional, it is where patient outcomes are decided. In this episode, we unpack: Why the WMA was founded, and why ethics still sits at the center of global medicine How private insurance denials and administrative burden are not “just an American problem” Why prevention and health literacy are always “unsexy,” but essential Universal healthcare realities, including rationing, access gaps, and technology tradeoffs How to mobilize younger clinicians, including the WMA’s junior doctors network AI in medicine, misinformation, and why “tools” still require human accountability Brain drain from developing countries, and what a fair global solution could look like 🎧 Press play for a rare, behind-the-scenes look at global medicine from the top, and the urgent message Dr. Philip keeps returning to: if we do not address the root cause, we are just managing collapse. If this episode moves you, follow the show, leave a rating, and share it with one person who needs to hear that change is possible, and collective.

Who has been a guest on wRight to the Root

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Candice Sehoma
• Dr Ed Weisbart
• Brynja Björk
• Jake Szymanski
• Dr Paul Henny

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

237

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

38

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

51