Honest conversations with the physicians who left the machine, built their own practices, and are rewriting how care gets delivered — hosted by internist Dr. Adama Diarra.
What a year in Rwanda taught Dr. Athena Hall about incentives, power, and the “cathedral thinking” it takes to redesign a system from the inside.
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Exploring what’s possible beyond the traditional system — before anyone tells you it isn’t.
Thinking critically about your career path while the contract offers start arriving.
Building an independent practice, joining one — or quietly running the numbers on leaving.
A year in Rwanda, two-thirds of U.S. bankruptcies, and why fixing healthcare takes “cathedral thinking.”
The pelvic floor primer: the five S’s, dysfunction in men and women, and the screening questions to start asking.
From idea to published — topic selection, timelines, AI, and traditional vs. self-publishing.
Why you likely don’t need to opt out of Medicare — and what your patient agreement actually needs to say.
Autonomy as a trade-off, AI as a sharpener, and the patient relationship as the real product.
Clinical hypnosis without the myths — and who is (and isn’t) a good referral.
A gastroenteritis case, a NEJM perspective, and how to be AI-fluent without being AI-dependent.
A corporate-finance lens on the hybrid insurance-plus-membership model.
Where AI is delivering in radiology today — and where it isn’t.
Break the visit, maybe break the note: a treatment plan for primary care.
Why burnout is a design failure, not a resilience failure.
Hour-long new visits, CKD referral pearls, and the leap into independent specialty care.
Entity choice, payroll, reconciliation, and the tax myths to stop believing.
Evidence vs. patient demand in mobile IV therapy.
The nervous system, connection, and emotional intelligence for clinicians.
Ultrasound-guided care, PRP, shockwave — and building a practice during COVID.
Where chronic pain and psychiatry meet.
Why most doctors overpay — and how entity structure changes the math.
Leaving insurance-based medicine for DPC — and why it isn’t just for the wealthy.
Holistic women’s health, menopause, and poetry in medicine.
Concierge vs. DPC, lifestyle medicine, and advice for future clinicians.
Functional breathing and the 200-mile run with a closed mouth.
The aneurysm a smaller practice caught in time.
The move to Direct Primary Care and what it changed for patients.
From corporate medicine to house calls.
A personal health crisis, and the practice built on the other side of it.
“My compassion has been hijacked.”
“One emergency visit can pay for the entire year.”
“You don’t need a bestseller — you need authority.”
Dr. Adama Diarra, DO, FACP, DipABOM is a double board-certified internist and obesity medicine specialist, founder of MyOne PCP — an independent, membership-based internal medicine practice outside Portland, Oregon — and CEO & CMO of Diarra Health.
He started the show to have the conversations he wished someone had had with him: clinically rigorous, financially honest, and grounded in what actually happens when you put the patient relationship back at the center.
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