Ep. 104 - Reclaiming Joy When Medicine Loses Its Meaning with Dr. Alen Voskanian

Ep. 106 - Why Healthcare Keeps Saying No to Better Solutions (ft. Holley Miller)

What happens when an industry built on science and data refuses to act on its own evidence? Host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Holley Miller, a veteran health tech strategist whose 40-plus years navigating medical device adoption, robotic surgery and emerging technology has given her a clear-eyed view of why healthcare is structurally designed to protect the status quo even when it underperforms. Holley reframes clinical resistance not as stubbornness but as rational risk management and makes the case that what looks like innovation failure is really a change management crisis hiding in plain sight. From laparoscopic surgery to AI adoption, she breaks down what it actually takes to move stakeholders, why incremental change rarely sticks and what leaders get wrong when they lead with solutions instead of problems. If you have ever walked out of a conference fired up and watched the momentum die in your next team meeting, this one is for you. Pull up a chair and tune in. This conversation will change how you think about change. Contact Holley: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/holleypmiller/] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@GMMDoWhatMatters] Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com [https://www.meredithhirsh.com/] Instagram: @workinghealthcare [https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare/] Facebook: WorkingHealthcare [https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast] LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithfhirsh/] YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare [https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare]

Ep. 105 - Why Healthcare Leaders Must Do the "Heart" Work with Lindse Murphy

What happens when the people treating trauma are quietly drowning in it themselves? On Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Lindse Murphy, behavioral health executive, board-certified behavior analyst and founding CEO of a statewide nonprofit advancing women in leadership, to explore what it really costs to lead in healthcare without doing what she calls the heart work. Lindse grew up navigating a childhood defined by instability, a mother's undiagnosed mental illness and the kind of survival mode that never fully switches off. That resilience became her career, propelling her from psychiatric units to C-suite leadership during COVID, where she was fielding calls not about patients in crisis but about physicians and nurses who were. She walked away from it all with clarity and purpose, building something the industry still struggles to prioritize: the well-being of the people doing the healing. If healthcare is going to fix itself, Lindse says, it has to start there. Pull up a chair and listen. This one stays with you. Contact Lindse: Website: influentialexecutivewomen.org [https://www.influentialexecutivewomen.org/] Instagram: @Lindse_Murphy [https://www.instagram.com/lindse_murphy/] LinkedIn: /lindsey-murphy-a86b2b145 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindse-murphy-a86b2b145/] Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com [https://www.meredithhirsh.com/] Instagram: @workinghealthcare [https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare/] Facebook: WorkingHealthcare [https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast] LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithfhirsh/] YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare [https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare]

Ep. 104 - Reclaiming Joy When Medicine Loses Its Meaning with Dr. Alen Voskanian

What happens when the thing that broke you isn't the hard work but everything around it? On Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Dr. Alen Voskanian, physician, author and palliative care specialist, to explore what's really driving burnout in American medicine. Alen arrived in the U.S. at 19 as a refugee with no doctors in his family and no roadmap, just determination. He became a physician, found his calling in underserved communities and then nearly lost his joy to the relentless administrative friction he calls "pebbles in the shoe." His book, Reclaiming the Joy of Medicine, is a challenge to every clinician and healthcare leader: stop waiting for a once-in-a-century crisis to force change. The conversation is sharp, honest and deeply human, a reminder that care is literally in the word "healthcare." It just needs to be put back. Grab a listen and ask yourself: what pebbles are you carrying? Contact Alen: Instagram @alenvmd [https://www.instagram.com/alenvmd/] LinkedIn: /alenvoskanianmd [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alenvoskanianmd/] Purchase Reclaiming the Joy of Medicine on Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Joy-Medicine-Fulfillment-Happiness/dp/B0BF31GJRX/] Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com [https://www.meredithhirsh.com/] Instagram: @workinghealthcare [https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare/] Facebook: WorkingHealthcare [https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast] LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithfhirsh/] YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare [https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare]

Ep. 103 - Follow the Money: Inside America's Drug Pricing Black Box (ft. Tesh Khullar)

If we are insured and spending nearly half a trillion dollars a year on prescription drugs, why are patients still standing at the pharmacy counter being told no? This episode of Working Healthcare follows that money. Host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Tesh Khullar, founder and CEO of Prism TPO and co-founder of HouseRx who has spent his career inside drug distribution, oncology data and specialty pharmacy. He explains how PBMs, vertically integrated insurers, 340B arbitrage and opaque rebates pull value out of the system before it ever reaches patients or independent practices. If you want to understand why the system works the way it does and who really absorbs the cost, this is the conversation to start with. Tune in. Contact Tesh: Website: prismtpo.com [https://prismtpo.com/] LinkedIn:  /tesh-k-269669  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tesh-k-269669/] Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com [https://www.meredithhirsh.com/] Instagram: @workinghealthcare [https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare/] Facebook: WorkingHealthcare [https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast] LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithfhirsh/] YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare [https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare]

Ep. 102 - Burnout, ‘Good Girls,’ and a System Never Built for Women with Sadie Wackett

What if the real problem isn’t that women “can’t handle it,” but that the system never considered them in the first place? On this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with leadership coach and former chief people officer Sadie Wackett. She spent decades as the only woman at the table in male-dominated industries. Drawing from her experience navigating IVF, international relocation and executive life in Palm Beach, Sadie explains how “good girl” conditioning, perfectionism and people-pleasing quietly burn women out, even as the workplace rewards them for shrinking into the role.  That pattern is costly. Together, Meredith and Sadie examine why so many high-achieving women feel numb, exhausted or as if they’re living someone else’s life. They also discuss what it takes to rewrite that script without blowing up a career. If nearly half of women report burnout, we need to stop treating it as a self-care problem and start recognizing it as a workforce and mental health crisis hiding in plain sight. Trying harder is not the answer. Press play to hear what can actually help high-achieving women in healthcare lead, thrive and stay in the work they care about. Contact Sadie: Website: sadiewackett.com [https://www.sadiewackett.com/] Facebook: @Sadie Wackett [https://www.facebook.com/sadie.wackett] Instagram: @sadiewackett [https://www.instagram.com/sadiewackett/] LinkedIn: /sadie-wackett [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadie-wackett/] Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com [https://www.meredithhirsh.com/] Instagram: @workinghealthcare [https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare/] Facebook: WorkingHealthcare [https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast] LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithfhirsh/] YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare [https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare]