The Doctor's Lounge
The Doctor's Lounge
Podcast Description
Where scalpels meet systems — and physicians say what they really think.Co-hosted by Dutch Rojas & Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, with Anish Koka, MD, Dan Choi, MD, & Sanat Dixit, MD — candid talks on healthcare policy, reform, physician autonomy & patient care.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on critical healthcare topics such as healthcare policy, physician autonomy, and patient care, with episodes addressing issues like the ACIP's credibility crisis, the effects of non-compete clauses in physician contracts, and the dynamics of Medicare and Medicaid systems.
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.
Episode Summary
Drs. Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with independent science writer Cremieux, the pseudonymous Substack author known for auditing primary data and calling out flawed research. The conversation ranges from FDA drug approval reform (Cremieux proposes a two-pathway system separating safety approval from insurer-facing efficacy approval), the divide between well-evidenced GLP-1s and unregulated peptides like BPC-157, and the HRT black-box warning controversy, to the Columbia and NYU admissions data leaks that made national news and implicated NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani. The back half digs into research methodology: why observational studies rarely replicate RCT findings, how Cremieux debunked a widely-cited Jonathan Haidt social media/cognition study, why the “administrator growth” chart doctors love to cite is likely exaggerated, and how publication bias correction methods work.
Chapter Markers
00:00 Introduction and guest background
02:00 Why the pseudonym “Cremieux”
03:11 How he got into primary data analysis and writing
04:46 FDA drug approval reform — a two-pathway proposal
05:57 The peptide market: GLP-1s vs. unproven peptides like BPC-157
09:39 Should drug authority come from the FDA or “bubble up” from trusted voices?
11:25 Regulatory capture and ideas for FDA reform
16:10 HRT, the black box warning, and communicating risk to patients
21:40 Decentralizing medical decision-making
22:45 DEI in medicine and the Columbia/NYU admissions data leak
34:28 Proving discrimination: causal inference standards for university admissions
36:42 Busting myths from observational studies with multiverse analysis
40:29 Debunking the Jonathan Haidt social media/cognition study
46:46 Does the US healthcare system explain lower life expectancy?
49:56 Is the administrator-to-physician growth chart accurate?
54:22 How publication bias correction methods work
Co-Host Handles
@anish_koka and @drdigiorgio
Show Handle
@drsloungepod
Subscribe Links
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/44vw8eirsKKnjgNIrdDvrR
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-doctors-lounge/id1832097658
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDoctorsLoungePod
Mr. Jordan Lasker X Handle / Substack
X handle: https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil
Substack: https://substack.com/@cremieux
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