PermanenteDocs Chat
Insights from practicing physicians on the trends reshaping patient care, clinical delivery, and the evolving role of doctors in a rapidly changing health care landscape. Our PermanenteDocs Chat, a live chat and podcast, is hosted by Alex McDonald, MD, a family medicine physician with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
Generating health through AI and human connection
Rahul Nayak, MD, gastroenterologist and physician director of the Virtual Medical Center at The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, sees artificial intelligence as a way to make care more human, not less. He talks with Alex McDonald, MD, about how in this episode of PermanenteDocs Chat. Dr. Nayak explains why…
Physician loneliness: Why connection matters in medicine
Conversations every physician should have about aging
How patient education drives lasting behavior change
Prescribing GLP-1s: Evidence, limits, expectations
How physicians integrate GLP1s into long-term weight management GLP-1 medications are reshaping the conversation around metabolic health and weight loss — but questions remain. In this PermanenteDocs Chat, Alex McDonald, MD, speaks with Sean Hashmi, MD, nephrologist and obesity medicine specialist, about how clinicians should prescribe GLP-1 and other…