What Every Doctor Needs to Know About Palliative Care | Dr Caryn Khoo

What Every Doctor Needs to Know About Palliative Care | Dr Caryn Khoo

Most doctors graduate believing palliative care means “giving up.” Dr Caryn Khoo spent fifteen years proving them wrong. Dr Caryn Khoo Shiao Yen is a Stanford-trained palliative medicine physician who returned to Malaysia in 2013 — not to a system that was ready for her, but to build one from scratch. She headed the palliative care department at the National Cancer Institute for four years, helped shape Malaysia’s National Palliative Care Policy, and now practices at Sunway Medical Centre. In this episode, she delivers the palliative care masterclass every doctor never got in medical school: what palliative care actually is (and isn’t), the 2010 NEJM evidence that early palliative care improves survival in metastatic lung cancer, why collusion around bad news is so common in Malaysian culture and how to handle it, the right way to have DNR conversations, and how any doctor can start using palliative principles today. Selina also shares a deeply personal story about her father’s pancreatic cancer — the two years he lived fully, and the final week that was chaotic because palliative care was never involved. Dr Caryn Khoo holds an MD from Dalhousie University, completed Internal Medicine training at Mayo Clinic, and is board certified by ABIM in both Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine following her Stanford Fellowship.

Why Doctors Must Understand AI Now — Dr. Melvin Speisman on Medicine's Most Dangerous Knowledge Gap | Ep. 48 | Postcall: Beyond the White Coat

Over 1,200 FDA-approved AI devices are already deployed in hospitals around the world. Most doctors have no idea they exist. Dr. Melvin Speisman has spent years at the intersection of medicine and technology. Doctors are trained to be the experts in the room. But AI is evolving faster than any curriculum can track, and the gap between what is being deployed and what clinicians understand is growing every day. In this episode, Dr. Selina Chew and Dr. Melvin Speisman unpack what is happening at the AI-medicine frontier - the tools being used without physician oversight, why medical education has not kept up, and what happens to doctor-patient trust when neither party understands the technology making decisions in the room. This is not a conversation about whether AI is good or bad. It is about what doctors do not know and why that matters now. Topics Covered: Why most doctors are unaware of FDA-approved AI tools already in use. The knowledge gap between tech developers and frontline clinicians. How AI is changing diagnosis and decision-making. What doctors should understand about AI. The future of the doctor role in an AI-augmented healthcare system. Postcall: Beyond the White Coat is a podcast for doctors navigating the gap between medical training and modern practice. Subscribe for new episodes every Sunday.

The Doctor Who Stopped Managing Disease and Started Reversing It | Malaysia | Ep. 47

She was the doctor. Then she became the patient. And the system she'd spent years questioning asked her to trust it with her own brain. Dr. Cecilliann Veronica had already walked away from a clinic she co-founded to go deeper into integrative medicine. She'd already faced down oncologists who called her work dangerous. Then she found a tumour — small, deep, in the middle of her brain. A conventional doctor told her the answer was open brain surgery. She knew the consequences: memory loss, lasting neurological damage. So she went looking for another way. And she found one. The experience confirmed everything she'd been building her practice around. She's impacting healthcare differently by proving — through her own body — that there is more than one way through. Today, Dr. Cecilliann practices at AS Clinic in Kuala Lumpur, specialising in integrative oncology, regenerative medicine, and peptide therapy. She works with patients failed by conventional protocols — and carries the rare understanding of what it feels like to be on the other side of the table. In this episode, you'll hear why she left aesthetic medicine to go deeper, what integrative oncology actually looks like, how she navigated her own brain tumour without open surgery, and what she thinks about practitioners who adopt these methods without understanding the risks. Press play.

Is AI Replacing Doctors? A Surgeon Who Builds AI Answers the Question Medicine Is Afraid to Ask | With Dr John Ferguson | Postcall: Beyond the White Coat

Is AI making doctors obsolete? Dr. John Ferguson says no — but not for the reason you think. He's a quintuple board-certified surgeon who operates on patients by day and builds AI systems the rest of the time. He knows exactly what AI can do. And what it absolutely cannot. Dr. Ferguson founded EdAI Systems, an AI platform for medical board certification — adopted by multiple boards across the US. As President-Elect of the American Board of Facial Cosmetic Surgery and a Senior Global Fellow of the AI2030 Initiative, he's also leading Medicine First, a physician-led movement submitting formal AI governance proposals to the United Nations. When AI gets it wrong, the tech company has a disclaimer. The doctor has a patient on the table. He's impacting healthcare differently by insisting that AI in medicine must be governed by those who carry both the scalpel and the liability. In this episode, you'll learn why Medical AI and Healthcare AI are not the same problem, what doctors don't know about how AI is being built for medicine, and why what you sense in the exam room still matters more than any algorithm. Whether you're a doctor wondering what AI means for your career, or someone trying to make sense of where all this is heading — this conversation will shift how you think. More episodes: https://disruptive-doctors.com/postcall-beyond-the-white-coat/ DD app: https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-app/ DD CON 2026: https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-con-2026/

The Moment That Changed How She Practices Medicine | Dr Ai Phi Thuy Ho

How does one moment in medicine change the way a doctor practices forever? In this episode of Postcall: Beyond the White Coat, Dr Selina Chew sits down with Dr Ai Phi Thuy Ho to uncover the defining moment that reshaped her entire approach to patient care. From the pressures of medical training to the quiet revelations that come only after years in the field, Dr Ai Phi shares the story she's never told publicly — and what it taught her about being a doctor, a healer, and a human being. This is a conversation about courage, compassion, and the turning points that make us who we are. Postcall: Beyond the White Coat — real conversations with doctors, for doctors.