Primary Medicine Podcast

Primary Medicine Podcast is an interview show hosted by Dr. Dimitri, and its recent run covers a wide spread for a medical program: clinic lending, billing, radiology teaching, fiction, longevity molecules and male enhancement. Each episode here is a one-on-one conversation. The host opens with a prepared introduction that sets out the guest's background and the plan for the talk, then starts with a simple question. The business of running a practice is one clear thread. Sharmeen Aqueel, founder and CEO of Lyvvora, came to healthcare finance from product and UX design work in France and Canada, and her episode starts with how that path led to a lending service for clinics and pharmacies. Matt Seefeld, CEO of MedEvolve, describes a company that began as billing software, founded by orthopedic surgeons out of Arkansas, and says getting paid in United States healthcare keeps getting harder. Dr. Dimitri ties the subject to personal experience, noting that practice finances were overlooked when the host started a practice more than a decade ago. The physician guests bring a different kind of story: work done alongside a busy clinical practice. Dr. Rory Sullivan, a Toronto family physician with an interest in narrative medicine, talks about his debut novel and says it began as a written series of experiences that he put into ChatGPT. The host tells Sullivan about having great respect for anyone who can finish a book, having started several and found it hard. Dr. Yatin Chada, returning to the show, discusses two online CT head courses for clinicians, one on ruling out neurosurgical emergencies. He traces the idea back to residency, when he and an emergency physician friend talked about teaching radiology concepts to emergency doctors. Two other conversations go somewhere less expected. Chris Burres, founder of MyVitalC, explains ESS60, which Burres describes as C60 fullerene processed for people and pets, as opposed to the industrial form, which is harmful if processed improperly. Dr. Joel Pash, an anesthesiologist and co-founder of a male enhancement clinic, describes the filler and neurotoxin injections the clinic performs and says the pills on the market are usually not effective. Across all of this, the questioning style stays the same. Dr. Dimitri asks for definitions before opinions: what MedEvolve actually does, which procedures count as enhancement, whether ESS60 and C60 are one molecule or two. That makes the specialist material easier to follow, but it also leaves guests room to present their own businesses in their own terms. Where to start depends on why someone is listening. For the economics of a clinic, 'Episode 112: Matt Seefeld on Physician Practice Financial Health' and the Lyvvora conversation make a natural pair. For a physician thinking about teaching or writing, the Chada and Sullivan episodes go well together.