Health:Further 135 - AI’s Surge, Meta’s Chaos, and the Crisis Facing Young Doctors
In this episode, Vic and Marcus cover a wide range of pressing topics including layoffs at UPS, economic instability, and the implications of AI in healthcare and commerce. They discuss new AI-powered voice agents from companies like Zocdoc and Cedar, explore the role of Meta and surveillance technology, and criticize loose AI guardrails on social platforms. The hosts also examine AI’s impact on the audit and pharmaceutical sectors, M&A activity, and the growing use of GLP-1 drugs by athletes. The episode closes with a powerful conversation on mental health, residency burnout, and the suicide crisis among young doctors
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3:43 - U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter as Imports Surged Ahead of Tariffs WSJ
5:39 - U.S. Hiring Slows as Employers’ Concerns Mount, ADP Data Show WSJ
7:07 - UPS to Cut 20,000 Jobs After Amazon Breakup WSJ
8:15 - Beijing Doesn’t Want America to See Its Trade-War Pain WSJ
10:27 - Canada’s Election Challenges Trump’s Theory of Trade War WSJ
12:25 - Plenful Raises $50M in Series B Funding FINSMES
13:24 - HealthPlan Data Solutions Secures $15M With MK Capital CityBiz
14:25 - Trek gets $11M to unlock health care's pricing black box Axios
15:37 - Blooming Health raises $26M for social services access Axios
18:19 - Supreme Court rules against hospitals in DSH case Modern Healthcare
19:37 - CMS explores limiting insurers' use of prior authorizations Modern Healthcare
21:16 - Humana bucks Medicare Advantage cost trend Modern Healthcare
23:09 - UHS sees behavioral health volumes drop in Q1 Healthcare Dive
26:20 - Novartis to buy Regulus Therapeutics for up to $1.7B Axios
27:25 - Pfizer Expands Cost-Cutting Measures, Reaffirms Outlook WSJ
28:05 - Hims & Hers, Novo Nordisk partner on GLP-1s Modern Healthcare
32:09 - Merck to Spend $1 Billion on New Factory to Make U.S. Supplies of Blockbuster Drug WSJ
33:21 - Amateur Athletes Are Turning to Ozempic to Raise Their Game WSJ
35:01 - Suicide Reverberates Among Young Doctors WSJ
41:31 - Cedar rolls out AI voice agent to tackle patients' medical billing questions Fierce Healthcare
43:46 - Zocdoc launches voice AI agent Zo to streamline bookings by phone Fierce Healthcare