The Doctor's Lounge

Anish Koka, MD, Anthony DiGiorgio, DO

doctorslounge25@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A clinician-led healthcare policy and systems show where physicians pressure-test real-world care, incentives, and evidence. It’s a strong platform for researchers and medical leaders who can translate policy and practice into what patients and doctors experience day to day.

Metrics

Episodes: 63

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

doctorslounge25@gmail.com

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Host

Anish Koka, MD - Physician host focused on candid, systems-level healthcare discussions, covering healthcare policy, physician autonomy, reform, and patient care.

Anthony DiGiorgio, DO - Physician host co-leading The Doctor’s Lounge with an emphasis on healthcare policy, physician autonomy, and how system incentives shape patient care and clinical decision-making.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
US/Canada practicing physicians (MD/DO) and/or academic clinicians; health services researchers; preventive cardiology and generalists with strong familiarity with guidelines, outcomes evidence, and payer/provider incentives; founders of direct care models or leaders translating clinical practice into systems change.
Required Achievements:  
Academic or clinical leadership (e.g., university faculty, hospitalist role), Published research in health services/outcomes/guidelines, Expert media presence via medical education platforms (e.g., journal club/Substack) or recognized clinical niche, Operational leadership in care delivery models (e.g., direct primary/acute care practice)

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Noah Kaufman - Leaving Employed ER Medicine; Direct Acute Care Cash-pay Model; Emergency/urgent Care Economics And Billing; Scaling Via Franchise Model

Dr. Greg Katz - Ldl/cholesterol Debate; Diet-induced Hypercholesterolemia Claims; Limitations Of Coronary Cta; Lipid Guidelines; Evidence Design Needed For Resolution

Dr. Anil Makam - LTACH Incentives And Utilization; Site-neutral Payment Reforms; Evidence Quality Behind Guidelines; How Clinicians Should Interpret/apply Weak Evidence; Fda/regulatory Issues

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Health Policy, Medical Research, Clinical Evidence, Healthcare Finance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Doctor's Lounge
:

Dr. Sanjay Dhall on Trauma, Medical Training, and the County Hospital That Doesn’t Bill

June 13, 2026

Episode SummaryThis week, Drs. DiGiorgio and Koka are joined by returning guest Dr. Sanat Dixit and special guest Dr. Sanjay Dhall, chief of neurosurgery at Harbor-UCLA and a leading spinal cord injury researcher. Dr. Dhall traces his path from a "commando shift" in a Houston trauma bay as a pre-med student to running solo trauma call at Grady Hospital as a young attending, then discusses the strange reality of his current institution: a major county hospital that doesn't bill professional fe...

The Atom Bomb Speaks: Tracy Høeg on COVID, Myocarditis, and the FDA From the Inside

June 10, 2026

Episode SummaryDr. Tracy Høeg — physician, epidemiologist, and former Acting Director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research — joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio for her first interview since being fired from the agency in May 2025. She traces her unusual path from ophthalmology dropout to professional ultramarathoner to one of the most consequential and contested researchers of the COVID era, walking through her school transmission studies, the myocarditis preprint that detonated on...

The ER Doc Who Quit the System - and Built His Own

June 06, 2026

Episode SummaryDr. Noah Kaufman - board-certified emergency physician with 20 years in the ER, seven seasons on American Ninja Warrior, and a new direct acute care practice in Denver - joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio to talk about why he walked away from the employed medicine model and built Cough Care, a cash-pay, fully transparent urgent care. The conversation covers the broken economics of emergency billing, why most urgent care is a race to the bottom, how price signals change both patient ...

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