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Doctor AI: Reimagining Healthcare. Rebuilding Trust. Delivering Health 4.0. Healthcare is broken—costly, fragmented, and inconvenient. We have lost trust in the very systems meant to support us when the uncertainty of human life comes knocking at the door. Across nations, people feel deep...

BEDSIDE is a storytelling podcast from Doctor AI TV — a serialized audio dramaabout the architecture of American medicine: its failures, its recoveries, andthe people inside the system building something better. Written and narrated byRobin Blackstone, MD. Each multi-episode season tells one story. Season 1 — PULSE — is airing now: seven episodes, weekly on Sundays at 6 a.m.Eastern through July 5, 2026. PULSE follows Kwame Mensah, a 42-year-old Ghanaian-American executive in Boston,in the days after he learns — by chance — that his heart was six months fromstopping. From that single ...

American Health—Who Gets Paid examines the pricing system that quietly governs US medicine—and explains why what gets paid for gets done. Rather than focusing on politics, personalities, or technology, the book looks at the underlying economics of medical work: how care is valued, who sets those values, and how payment rules shape clinical behavior, institutional priorities, and innovation.

Doctor AI: Rebuilding Trust in American Healthcare explores how AI, payment, culture, and system design can move medicine from rescue toward lifelong health. Hosted by Robin L.P. Blackstone, MD—with Doctor AI as a recurring analytic voice—the show brings straight talk on prevention, trust, autonomy, clinician judgment, and the architecture of Health 4.0.Robin is a surgeon, author, and health-systems architect; founder of Blackstone Health and the H4 Alliance; the first woman elected president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; and author of Doctor AI: Reimagining ...