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Sharon McMahon on How Physicians Can Make Real Change in the Healthcare System

July 21, 2026

Sharon McMahon, America's government teacher, author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Small and the Mighty, and one of the most effective science communicators working right now, just on the government side joins us today. She makes the case for what types of people should run for office. The bulk of our conversation is about something I see constantly in healthcare comments: learned helplessness, the feeling that the system is too broken and too big and too entrenched to ev...

Knock Knock Eye: My July 4th On-Call Recap

July 16, 2026

I almost finished my July 4th call week. Good news! Portland did not blow its face off this year. No open globes, no eyelid lacerations, no thermal injuries, no sclopetaria. Bad news: a Friday holiday means every unanswered call from every patient at every one of our offices lands on the on-call doctor, and I earned every one of them. I walk through three cases. First, a cataract surgery my partner had to abort mid-procedure because the patient had six clock hours of zonule laxity. I explai...

Glauc Talk: Can Free Medical School Fix the Primary Care Crisis?

July 14, 2026

It's just the two of us this week, which means we bounce between Star Wars, ageism in medicine, Mark Cuban's healthcare policy ideas, and the spleen. Kristin sent me a video about the Bajau people of Southeast Asia, a group of divers from Indonesia and the Philippines who have genetically evolved spleens that are 50% larger than average, which they use as an oxygen reservoir to dive 70 meters and hold their breath for up to 13 minutes, and look, I'm not saying I was wrong about the spleen, bu...