Welcome back to On/Offcall!

🎤 We’re excited to announce our newest partner MD+, a leading community of medical students and residents, alongside medical student Rishma Jivan as our featured guest speaker for our upcoming AI webinar!

Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker, AI educator and Direct Primary Care pediatrician Dr. Michael Hobbs, and Rishma will help break down exactly how clinicians can start using AI safely and effectively in their daily practice.

🗓️ The first session of our 4-part series kicks off this Tuesday, March 25 at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET.

We’ll walk through:
👉 How you can use AI for clinical documentation to actually save time
👉 A simple framework you can use to evaluate AI outputs immediately
👉 How to recognize AI failure modes in medical text before they affect patient care
👉 And Graham and Michael's personal AI tool kits and best practices

This is our moment to stay ahead of the curve, learn with peers, and level up so you can shape how AI shows up in medicine.

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Winning the War Against Misinformation Online, w/ Dr. Geeta Nayyar

🚨Dr. Geeta Nayyar is a bestselling author, globally recognized rheumatologist, and former Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce and AT&T. She brings a rare full-spectrum perspective across clinical care, health systems, and the broader technology industry, and we were honored to welcome her to How I Doctor this week for a timely discussion of one of the biggest issues in healthcare: Medical misinformation.

In the episode, she breaks down a critical reality: While physicians are forced to follow outdated rules around posting on social media and building a voice online, TikTok influencers get to peddle medical misinformation freely without consequence.

Dr. Nayyar explores what actually needs to change in order to make this a fair fight and put physicians back in the driver’s seat, including:

👉 What hospitals must do to modernize outdated policies around social media and reverse the double standard that puts physicians at a disadvantage
👉 How solving critical access issues and cutting down appointment wait times will actually help tackle misinformation online at the same time
👉 Why more physicians should feel empowered to start using their voice on social media and share real, research-based information
👉 And why reclaiming public trust starts with showing up in the spaces where patients already are

❤️ Thank you Dr. Nayyar for leading the charge.

Listen to the full episode here

Most Talked About On Offcall

Physician Spotlight: Dr. Lara Zibners

5 questions with Dr. Lara Zibners, board-certified pediatrician and pediatric emergency medicine specialist who is the Co-founder and Chairman of Calla Lily Clinical Care, which is transforming drug delivery for women.

1. Lara, what do you think the public most misunderstands about being a physician in 2026? I don’t think the public understands just how “not okay” many physicians are. The system is under huge strain and many of the enjoyable parts of caring for patients have been taken away from us. I think it would shock many people to learn just how unstable the system is as a whole, but also just how fragile the state of healthcare providers is.

2. Forget pizza parties — what’s one way you’ve coped with burnout that’s actually made a difference? I quit. Just kidding. I’ve pivoted out of clinical medicine and that was because of life circumstance, not burnout, in my situation. But I’ve definitely felt it at times and it is something that we need to keep talking about. On our podcast, Unstable Vitals, Adam Brown and I talk a lot about burnout and the answer we keep coming back to is diversify your portfolio of activities. Don’t let your whole life be about the job. Don’t let the whole job be about one type of activity.

3. What’s the hardest part about being a physician that you think should be talked about more openly? The personal sacrifice and the opportunity cost of becoming one. When I decided to go to medical school, there was still this sense that it would all be worth it. You’ll always find a job. The financials made sense. Now when I look back at my 20’s and early 30’s, I have this disconnect from many of my nonphysician peers because I was basically living under a rock. The years that many people spend socializing and engaging in popular culture are stunted for us. All of a sudden, you pop out of residency and fellowship and you’re ready to start the party and everyone else is already buying a house and has kids. At least, that is how it was for me. Plenty of people I know were able to start those life moments during training but I wasn’t one of them.

4. What’s the thing that you love most about The Pitt and feel it captures best about medicine? ER premiered during my 2nd year of medical school, and I was a religious fan. The number of things I learned! For me, the best part of The Pitt is seeing how Dr. Robby has matured. I know he’s not “really” John Carter, but I remember Carter’s evolution on ER and to see him years later now as teacher rather than student, I see myself and my own journey reflected back at me. I also just love how real it is. It’s very easy to forget that healthcare providers are imperfect humans with human feelings and reactions. Our jobs are not normal and we can be deeply affected by what we see. It’s not just another day at the office. The Pitt really drives that home.

5. Who do you want to nominate next to get the next Physician Spotlight??
I’m throwing Stefanie Simmons in the mix! ER doc, provider mental health advocate and someone who has actually stood in the room with Mr. Wyle.

Have a response for Dr. Zibners? Reply to this post directly, she'll personally read every message. Also, let us know who we should feature next by replying directly to this post!

Don’t Forget: Send Us Your Question for Office Hours With Graham!

Keep them coming! Send us your biggest question about AI or the future of medicine (we’ve already had some great ones). In our new Office Hours with Graham segment, Graham will answer all your open and honest questions about:

👉 How AI is changing medicine
👉 How to deploy technology to fit clinician workflows
👉 How to practice a career in entrepreneurship and medicine
Or anything else that’s on your mind!

You can either: reply with your question directly to this email, email a voice note to [email protected], or watch this video and drop your questions in the comments. We’re exciting to hear from you!

Highlights From Our Community

Each week, we celebrate career milestones, launches, & other goings-on in the physician community. Have something to promote? Reply and we’ll feature you.

🎉 Congratulations and Happy Match Day!
Featuring just a handful of the many hard-working new physicians: Ye Tun, Christian Bailey-Rurke, Brandon Morales Ruiz, Christabel Okehie, Michael Ramos, Adwoa Baffoe-Bonnie, Scott Giberson Jr., Binay Panjiyar, Yishak Bedaso, Oghenewoma Oghenesume, Leena Surapaneni,  Diane Zhao, Shayan Smani, Nisarg Shah, and Philip Ratnasamy.

👉 Also remember this from Diego Barragan
Dr. Diego Barragan posted about why the path towards residency is not linear, and for those who received tough news, back in 2020 he applied for the Match in orthopaedics and did not find a spot. Read it here.

🏆 Bravo, Chethan Sathya
Dr. Chethan Sathya was a consulting producer on a film that won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film: All the Empty Rooms. (h/t Dr. Rajiv Narula). Congratulations!

🎉 🥳 Congratulations, David Hoke
Dr. David Hoke announced that he has joined the University of Miami as a Primary Care Physician in the Executive and Concierge Medicine practice. Read it here.

👏 Well done, Louis Profeta
Dr. Louis Profeta attended the American Podiatric Medical Association meeting in Washington DC and was presented an award of recognition for contribution to the field of podiatry. Learn more here.

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