Dr. Mark Bonta, MD, FRCPC

I've recorded 100+ episodes with healthcare leaders and founders. Here's the pattern: The best medical breakthroughs don't come from people trying to build companies. They come from people who got mad enough to stop waiting for the system to fix itself. Prevention isn't boring. Diagnosis isn't optional. Balance isn't about age. The lesson? Stop accepting "that's just how it works" as an answer. ditchthelabcoat.com/episodes/

He spent years thinking he was the only person dealing with his son's rare disease. Then a friend said: "My wife has Ehlers-Danlos. She understands exactly what you're going through." That was the first time he didn't feel alone. Community doesn't fix the disease. But it fixes the loneliness. And sometimes that's what keeps you going. Listen to hear how one moment of connection turned into a platform helping thousands of families. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

$400,000 a year in healthcare costs. No diagnosis. Just chaos. ER visits. Specialists. Tests leading nowhere. Repeat. Then they get a diagnosis. Not a cure. Just a name. Costs drop to $40,000. 95% reduction. Same disease. The chaos just stops. New episode on why diagnosis matters more than you think. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

Your rare disease diagnosis might already be buried in your insurance claims. You just need someone who knows how to look for the patterns. Joshua Resnikoff built a platform that finds invisible patients in claims data and gets them diagnosed in 12 weeks instead of 7 years. New episode on how insurance breadcrumbs lead to answers. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras." Great advice. Unless you're standing in the Serengeti. Joshua Resnikoff just flipped this old medical saying on its head and made me rethink every time I've dismissed a patient because I assumed I knew what landscape I was in. New episode on rare disease diagnosis and why context is everything. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

Joshua built a company that shouldn't need to exist. It compresses rare disease diagnosis from 7 years to 12 weeks. Not with new tests. Not with new specialists. Just by forcing the system to coordinate what's already there. The infrastructure exists. It just refuses to work together. So families spend years in hell while their kids bounce between doctors who won't talk to each other. New episode on the architecture healthcare is missing. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

I've done 100+ podcast episodes with healthcare founders. The first time I ask "why did you start this?" I get the market answer. The technology. The gap in care. If I wait long enough, the real answer comes out. And it's never about business. It's always about something that happened to them they can't let go of. Joshua Resnikoff built a rare disease platform because he knows what it feels like to watch your child suffer while doctors say "there's nothing we can do." That's the why that carries you through hell. New episode dropped this week. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

We've all Googled symptoms at 2 AM. But imagine doing it every night for years because no doctor can tell you what's wrong with your child. "What corner of the internet can I get some ray of hope for my kid?" New episode with Joshua Resnikoff on what happens when families get desperate. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/ending…

There was no cure. No treatment. Nothing medically changed. But finally having a name for what was wrong with his son cut their ER visits by 75%. "You can name the monster. There's a psychological factor to that that's really settling." New episode with Joshua Resnikoff on the power of diagnosis.

"There's nothing we can do. It's not terminal, so don't worry about it." That's what a Harvard biomedical engineer was told about his son's rare disease after years of ER visits. He refused to accept it. New episode with Joshua Resnikoff on how he's cutting the diagnostic odyssey from 7 years to 12 weeks.

Hospitals are rushing to add AI. But here’s the catch. If your hospital’s protocol says stop a blood thinner 7 days before surgery, and the AI says 5… Which medicine is it practicing? Generic AI sounds smart. Tailored AI actually knows your hospital. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

@joshuapliu was supposed to start residency in 2011. He decided to build a healthcare tech company "just for a year." 14 years later: No white coat No residency Helping patients across hundreds of hospitals Sometimes the best clinical decision is not becoming a clinician. New episode ↓ ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

“AI will fix everything.” Also healthcare: “Please fax this form, then upload the same form to three portals.” Maybe we shouldn’t automate the system until we admit the system is ridiculous. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

Everyone says AI will fix healthcare. But if we use AI to automate broken workflows… we just get broken workflows faster. Example: prior authorization. Do we want AI to process it in 3 seconds… or for it to stop existing? Co-Founder and CEO of Seamless @joshuapliu weighs in. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

AI won’t replace physicians. It’s about to show up as a medical student. Drafting notes. Pulling labs. Suggesting plans. Waiting for supervision. The real shift? Doctors won’t just practice medicine. They’ll manage teams of AI trainees. How many can you safely oversee? ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

Retail AI helps you buy shoes. Healthcare AI helps you make life-or-death decisions. Different stakes. Different bar. Clinicians aren’t “behind.” They’re accountable. Until AI earns the kind of trust you’d stake your license on, adoption will feel slow. And maybe that’s the point. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

We built an AI model that predicts hospital readmission with 80% accuracy. Doctors asked: "So what do I actually do with that number?" There was no workflow. No intervention. Just data. AI isn't solving healthcare's problems. It's automating broken processes we're too stubborn to fix. New episode with @joshuapliu ↓ ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

We didn’t need to digitize the pre-op handout. We needed to stop sending everyone the same one. On a blood thinner? You get that reminder. Diabetic? You get that protocol. Neither? No noise. Personalization isn’t a luxury in medicine. It’s safety. ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…

Not anti-AI. Not AI-pilled. AI-pillowed. Patients don’t all want the same interface. Some want a bot at midnight. Some want a human in the room. Most live in between. The future isn’t one channel. It’s the right touch for the right person.

AI isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s automating the paperwork that proves healthcare happened. Episode 101 with Dr. @joshuapliu on why speed isn’t the same thing as better care. Are we redesigning the system… or accelerating it? ditchthelabcoat.com/podcast/is-ai-…