Sharing the Human Stories behind Breakthrough Innovations
With Timothy Wheeler and David Tsai
New episodes every other TuesdaySeason 1 — 2 episodes
Days before this conversation was recorded, Dr. Tim Nelson acquired a 600,000-square-foot hospital — for one dollar. He left one of the country’s leading medical institutions after spending 20 years learning how to rebuild hearts that surgeons could only repair. This is a conversation about what he was willing to risk, why promising science moves so slowly, and whether a new model can bring potential cures from the laboratory to patients faster.
Ilana Jacqueline is one of the most established voices in patient advocacy. During 15 years of work, her writing and videos have reached millions, and her book “Medical Gaslighting: How to Get the Care You Deserve in a System That Makes You Fight for Your Life” has become essential reading for anyone navigating healthcare. Her work grew from spending the first nineteen years of her life being told her symptoms weren’t real. In this conversation, she explains why medical gaslighting happens, the cost of not being believed, and why patients have more power to change the system than ever before.
Breakthroughs don’t begin with headlines or approvals — they begin with a diagnosis, a loss, a patient refusing to accept the limits of what exists, or a clinician pushing beyond the system they inherited.
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