Unstable Vitals
Unstable Vitals
Podcast Description
Welcome to Unstable Vitals, where healthcare experts Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Lara Zibners navigate the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. Adam, an emergency physician, professor, and founder of ABIG Health, brings a wealth of leadership experience and expertise in healthcare strategy and DEI. Lara, a nationally recognized educator and co-founder of Calla Lily Clinical Care, combines clinical insights with business expertise to address the industry's most pressing challenges.In each episode, Adam and Lara break down complex topics, offering practical insights and clarity in the often unstable world of healthcare. From policy shifts to healthcare economics, they provide the knowledge you need to navigate today's healthcare system.Tune in for fresh perspectives, expert analysis, and a dose of reality in every episode!
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as healthcare policy, economics, and clinical practices, offering episodes that tackle topics like moral injury in medicine, the impact of public service layoffs, and insights from both the U.S. and U.K. healthcare systems.
Welcome to Unstable Vitals, where healthcare experts Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Lara Zibners navigate the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. Adam, an emergency physician, professor, and founder of ABIG Health, brings a wealth of leadership experience and expertise in healthcare strategy and DEI. Lara, a nationally recognized educator and co-founder of Calla Lily Clinical Care, combines clinical insights with business expertise to address the industry’s most pressing challenges.
In each episode, Adam and Lara break down complex topics, offering practical insights and clarity in the often unstable world of healthcare. From policy shifts to healthcare economics, they provide the knowledge you need to navigate today’s healthcare system.
Tune in for fresh perspectives, expert analysis, and a dose of reality in every episode!
What if there were a network of clinics quietly delivering full-suite care — primary care, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, prenatal, mobile units — to anyone who walks in, regardless of their ability to pay? Spoiler: there is, and most Americans have no idea it exists.
Adam and Lara sit down with Dr. Rui Ariyapala, Associate Chief Medical Officer at Piedmont Health Services and a public health physician trained across New Zealand, the UK, and the US, to unpack the Federally Qualified Health Center model, a 55-year-old experiment in keeping vulnerable patients out of the ED and inside coordinated, value-based care.
Along the way: why a father walked out of his child's cancer diagnosis, how $4,500 of NHS coverage stacks up against $26,000 a year in US premiums and what it actually takes to move a system built on sick-care toward real prevention.
Plus: Gary the Word Bird, Ginger Spice at the London Zoo, and a proposal hidden inside an escape room.
A conversation about the parts of US healthcare that are working and the upstream shifts that could fix the parts that aren't.
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