Healthcare & Medicine
Two practicing physicians break down how American healthcare really works — insurance, private equity, Big Pharma, physician burnout, and the policy fights shaping your care. Honest, evidence-based conversations from a preventive cardiologist and an orthopedic surgeon.
MBA vs MD: What Octopuses, Gut Bacteria, and Outer Space Stem Cells Reveal About Control
Adil and Humayun explore the big questions shaping the future of healthcare, technology, and leadership — could AI become the ultimate coordinator of…
Unlocking Secrets of the Body: Peptides, AI Injury Diagnosis, and Magnetic Pigeons
The docs return from a break to talk work-life balance for busy physician dads, then dive deep into peptides like BPC-157 being moved off FDA Category 2,…
Cancer Smelling Dogs, Nuking Mars, Steroid Olympics, and Longevity Hacks
A whirlwind episode covering the viral JP Morgan intern scandal, then the Mark Hyman epidural abscess story where a stem cell and exosome injection from…
Who Runs US Healthcare: Rogan, MAHA, Trump, Private Equity, or Agentic AI?
After getting picked up by the New York Times, the docs dig into who really runs US healthcare: the explosion of private equity buying physician practices…
Four Headlines Every Doctor Fears: Amazon GLP-1s, AI Replacing MDs, End of the Pen
Dr. Adil Ahmed and Dr. Humayun Naqvi unpack four headlines rattling medicine: Amazon selling oral GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like orforglipron and oral Wegovy…
Dr. Janak Parikh — Botox, Fillers, Complex Reconstruction & Dangers of Botched Surgery
The first 2Docs1Mic guest, plastic surgeon Dr. Janak Parikh, shares his unconventional path from general surgery and transplant/hepatobiliary surgery into a…
Noise vs. Truth: Can You Still Trust Health Advice in the Age of Politics and Conspiracies?
Dr. Humayun Naqvi and Dr. Adil Ahmed tackle whether you can still trust health advice amid politics and conspiracy theories, from Antarctica and JFK to the…
BPC-157 and Other Peptides: Miracle Molecules or Hype?
Dr. Adil Ahmed and Dr. Humayun Naqvi break down the peptide craze, starting with what a peptide actually is, then weighing the hype against the evidence for…
TikTok Influencers vs. Real Doctors
Drs. Naqvi and Ahmed take on medical misinformation and the rise of medfluencers who trade the stethoscope for a ring light, including non-physicians giving…
From the Lab to Big Pharma
Drs. Naqvi and Ahmed go behind the scenes of drug development, from the Gila monster saliva behind GLP-1s and the 1921 discovery of insulin by Banting and…
The Health Insurance Illusion
Dr. Naqvi and Dr. Ahmed break down how confusing US health insurance really is, explaining premiums, deductibles, co-insurance, copays, and out-of-pocket…
Ozempic and the Obesity Revolution
Cardiologist Dr. Naqvi and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ahmed dive into the obesity drug revolution, explaining how GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy,…
Why Are Physicians Burnt Out?
Dr. Naqvi and Dr. Ahmed have a candid, cathartic conversation about physician burnout, covering decision fatigue, the relentless logistics of juggling…
How to Avoid a Heart Attack
Dr. Humayun Naqvi breaks down how to actually prevent a heart attack, separating primary from secondary prevention and explaining what a heart attack really…
Was Grey's Anatomy Lying About Residency?
Dr. Adil Ahmed and Dr. Humayun Naqvi compare real medical residency to the TV version, walking through internship, the hierarchy of interns, senior…
Who Are We? What Is Health? (Pilot Episode)
In the pilot episode, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adil Ahmed and cardiologist Dr. Humayun Naqvi introduce themselves and the show, asking what health and fitness…