Postcall : Beyond the White Coat

Most doctors are trained to fix one patient at a time. What happens when that same doctor is suddenly responsible for an entire hospital?Dr. Timothy Low went from medical doctor to pharma, clinical research and biotech, to head of healthcare investment at Pavilion Capital, then CEO of Gleneagles Hospital and Farrer Park Hospital in Singapore. Today he is Executive Vice President at QuikBot Technologies, building agentic AI robots for hospitals.In this episode of Postcall: Beyond the White Coat, he tells Dr. Selina Chew what it was like to lead 800 staff and 1,000 specialists, how fish philosophy and "Whale Done" changed hospital culture, and the hardest decision he ever made as a CEO. He also shares his work on an Asian-sized artificial heart implant for Indonesia, his views on regenerative wellness, and the advice he'd give any doctor curious about life beyond the traditional route.If you're a doctor drawn to leadership, exploring non-clinical paths, or curious where healthcare is heading, this one is for you. Press play.

She found the first lump at 21, as a second-year medical student. Five years later, a new cancer was diagnosed on the other side. Cancer doesn't discriminate. Not even against doctors.Dr Aiesha Asmadi is a medical fitness doctor with a background in sports medicine and a two-time breast cancer survivor from Kuala Lumpur. She joins Dr Selina Chew to talk about the oncologist who laughed at her egg-freezing question, the "time bomb" warning that led to her second surgery, and the full-blown PTSD that hit after she broke a stage four diagnosis to a 20-year-old patient.She rebuilt herself through strength training, placed second on the world stage at NABBA Universe in England, and now prescribes exercise like medicine for patients, athletes and cancer survivors. Her message: surviving isn't the goal. Thriving is.More Postcall episodes: https://disruptive-doctors.com/postcall-beyond-the-white-coat/Download the DD app: https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-app/Get tickets to DD CON 2026: https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-con-2026/Top Non-Clinical Healthcare Programmes for Doctors: https://disruptive-doctors.com/top-non-clinical-healthcare-programmes-for-doctors/Specialty Medicine Certification Hub: https://disruptive-doctors.com/specialty-medicine-certification-hub/GP Clinic Solutions Hub: https://disruptive-doctors.com/gp-clinic-solutions-hub/

He's been in Malaysia's busiest emergency room for twenty-eight years. He's run toward car explosions, treated radioactive bodies, and stood at the summit of Everest with a patient who couldn't breathe. And when you ask him what kind of doctor he is, he doesn't say emergency physician.He says: humanity medicine.Datuk Dr. Alzamani Mohammad Idrose is a Consultant Emergency Physician and Disaster Medicine Specialist at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, coordinator of medical disaster response across the Asian region, holder of seven degrees and two fellowships, and personal physician to the King in 2014. He is also the author of "Krisis," a poet, and a man who literally prescribes laughter to his patients — and can name the four neurochemicals that fire in the brain when you laugh.In this episode, you'll hear how a boy from Kedah chose the specialty most doctors avoid, the true story behind the twelve-year-old hostage negotiation that made TV3 news, why he calls emergency medicine "humanity medicine," how his ELEVATING leadership philosophy keeps his staff sane through the hardest shifts in Malaysia, and what a lighthouse on his office wall taught him about leading through storm. Whether you're a doctor considering emergency medicine or someone wondering how any human being survives twenty-eight years on the front line — this is for you. Listen now.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/

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.

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.

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 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/

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.

Why do so many doctors feel uncertain about their careers after medical school?Medical training prepares doctors to diagnose illness and care for patients. But it rarely teaches them how the profession itself works.In this episode of Postcall: Stories Beyond the White Coat, Dr Selina Chew speaks with physician and ScrubsBuddy writer Dr Sidhya Choudhary about the hidden curriculum of medicine — the unwritten rules that shape medical careers.Dr Sidhya shares her journey into medicine, her experiences working as a doctor, and the lessons she discovered about the profession that are rarely taught during MBBS or medical training.Topics covered in this episode include:• why many doctors drift through their careers • the hidden curriculum of medicine • expectations versus reality when starting work as a doctor • patients that leave a lasting imprint on physicians • the early years of a medical career • how doctors can design their careers intentionally • the role of writing and reflection in becoming a better clinician • the story behind the ScrubsBuddy newsletterIf you are a medical student, junior doctor, or physician wondering how to navigate your career in medicine, this conversation offers insight into the systems and lessons that shape the profession.Postcall is a podcast featuring doctors who are expanding medicine beyond the traditional path and impacting healthcare differently.Chapters 00:00 The Hidden Curriculum of Medicine01:53 Journey into Medicine: A Personal Story11:25 Medical School Experiences and Lessons Learned16:38 The Reality of Clinical Practice23:34 The Human Side of Medicine: Empathy and Understanding30:15 Navigating Hospital Challenges32:07 Surprising Realities of the Medical Profession36:22 The Stigma of Medical Officers40:30 Lessons Learned the Hard Way46:52 Intentional Career Design in Medicine51:25 Emphasizing the Human Side of Medicine🎧 Listen to the other podcast here: https://disruptive-doctors.com/postcall-beyond-the-white-coat/📌 Download the Disruptive Doctors app to connect with a global community of doctors impacting healthcare differently.Google Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disruptive.doctorsApple App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/id6747108951👉 Like, subscribe, and share this video with your colleagues to spark meaningful conversations about the future of medicine!Join Disruptive Doctors www.disruptive-doctors.comJoin us at DD CON 2026 on the 11 & 12 September 2026 where doctors thrive in the age of AI. Get your tickets here https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-con-2026/Check out our Top Non-Clinical Healthcare Programmes for Doctors. https://disruptive-doctors.com/top-non-clinical-healthcare-programmes-for-doctors/If you’re interested in advancing your clinical skills, check out our Specialty Medicine Certification Hub. https://disruptive-doctors.com/specialty-medicine-certification-hub/If you’re running a GP Clinic check out GP Clinic Solutions Hub to get all the resources you need to successfully run your GP Clinic. https://disruptive-doctors.com/gp-clinic-solutions-hub/

What happens when a doctor realises impact doesn’t stop at the bedside?In this episode of Postcall: Stories Beyond the White Coat, Dr Selina Chew sits down with Dr Anurag Ganugapati — a frontline doctor, founder of StatDoctor, and board member of the Australian Society for Medical Entrepreneurship & Innovation (ASME).Dr Anurag Ganugapati reflects on:- The early realities of being a doctor in Australia- The emotional challenges young doctors face- Rediscovering his love for medicine- The patients that left a permanent imprint — and the ones that got away- How those experiences shaped the way he sees healthcare todayWe also explore how he founded StatDoctor, and how it is transforming the locum and healthcare staffing landscape — making shift-filling more transparent, efficient, and doctor-focused.This episode answers important questions many clinicians quietly ask:- Can doctors become entrepreneurs without leaving medicine?- What is a portfolio doctor — and is that the future of medical careers?- How is the locum scene changing in Australia?- Can doctors build systems while still caring for patients?- Will AI replace doctors?This is not a startup story.It’s a conversation about identity, purpose, and expanding what it means to be a doctor in modern healthcare.If you’re a doctor questioning your path, exploring innovation, or wondering whether medicine has to be linear — this episode is for you.Timestamps00:00 Introduction to a Multi-Dimensional Doctor07:18 Struggles in Clinical Practice15:54 The Silent Struggle of Burnout25:39 Memorable Patient Experiences30:56 Understanding Portfolio Careers37:57 Collaboration vs. Competition in Healthcare46:47 Challenges in Healthcare Recruitment54:29 The Future of Healthcare and AI01:00:11 Embracing Change in Healthcare—🎙 About Postcall Postcall is a podcast featuring doctors who are impacting healthcare differently.—📌 Topics Covered - Doctor identity - Medical entrepreneurship - Healthcare innovation - StatDoctor - Clinician founders - Integrative health - Future of healthcare - Doctor career evolution—🔔 Subscribe for more stories beyond the white coat.🎧 Listen to the other podcast here: https://disruptive-doctors.com/postcall-beyond-the-white-coat/📌 Download the Disruptive Doctors app to connect with a global community of doctors impacting healthcare differently.Google Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disruptive.doctorsApple App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/id6747108951👉 Like, subscribe, and share this video with your colleagues to spark meaningful conversations about the future of medicine!Join Disruptive Doctors www.disruptive-doctors.comJoin us at DD CON 2026 on the 4 & 5 September 2026 where doctors thrive in the age of AI. Get your tickets here https://disruptive-doctors.com/dd-con-2026/Check out our Top Non-Clinical Healthcare Programmes for Doctors. https://disruptive-doctors.com/top-non-clinical-healthcare-programmes-for-doctors/If you’re interested in advancing your clinical skills, check out our Specialty Medicine Certification Hub. https://disruptive-doctors.com/specialty-medicine-certification-hub/If you’re running a GP Clinic check out GP Clinic Solutions Hub to get all the resources you need to successfully run your GP Clinic. https://disruptive-doctors.com/gp-clinic-solutions-hub/