Comparing US and New Zealand healthcare

Season 11 of Fixing Healthcare continues its exploration of medicine’s new voices and rising influencers with an eye-opening conversation about sexuality, vaccinees and misinformation. Today’s guest, originally from rural Texas, joins the show from the other side of the world.

Cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Danielle Jones, better known to millions as Mama Doctor Jones. An OB-GYN by training, Jones has built a worldwide following on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, and now brings her perspective from New Zealand, where she lives and practices today.

This season isn’t just about guests with massive online audiences. It’s about what happens when those influencers listen. By engaging directly with millions of patients, they hear first-hand what people are curious about, confused by or struggling with—and then translate those voices back into the larger medical conversation.

This season highlights guests with massive online audiences. But their value isn’t just in reach, it’s in their ability to listen closely to what millions of patients are saying, then translate those insights back into the wider medical conversation.

From the start, Jones makes clear why she’s become a trusted voice for so many.

Her mission isn’t just to provide facts, but to help people distinguish what is real from what is not, a skill that’s more urgent than ever in an era of viral misinformation. Drawing on her roots in rural Texas, Jones describes how she had to unlearn many of the taboos she grew up with before becoming comfortable talking openly about abortion, contraception and sexual health.

Key topics in this conversation:

• The power of online health education. Jones explains how she flips the tactics of disinformation campaigns to spread accurate medical knowledge, making it “work for the good guys.”
• Persistent myths about contraception. She addresses head-on the false claim that birth control causes infertility, emphasizing that age (not contraception) drives fertility challenges.
• HPV vaccines and cultural pushback. Dr. Jones discuss how misogyny and paternalism fuel opposition to one of the safest, most effective vaccines ever developed.
• Supporting teens navigating sexuality. Jones describes how she avoids judgmental “ready/not ready” labels, instead encouraging self-reflection, autonomy and safety.
• Menopause and hormones. She calls out predatory marketing and misinformation around hormone therapies, urging clearer communication about the real risks and benefits.
• A global lens. Living in New Zealand has given Jones new perspective on how cultural context shapes both medical care and public health trust.

Tune in for the full interview and join the conversation on social media.

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