Ditch The Labcoat

Katie Engelhart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, does something similar. She finds the ...

Dr. Sonal Gandhi, a medical oncologist, joins Ditch the Labcoat to break down what most people don't understand: we already cure cancer. All the time. Early stage cancers like breast, colon, and skin cancer caught in time have cure rates approaching 90 to 100 percent.
The challen...

This isn't about imaginary illness or psychosomatic complaints. This is about the brain physically changing in response to stress, trauma, and unresolved emotional burdens, and manifesting those changes as chronic pa...

In this episode of Ditch the Labcoat, Dr. Mark Bonta sits down with Alfredo to explore what happens to meaning when systems accelerate. They discuss why productivity metrics fail to capture human performance, what AI accelerates and ...

He believed healthcare could solve anything. Then his son started having unexplained recurring fevers. Monthly ER visits. Ice baths to prevent seizures. Years of diagnostic uncertainty. Finally, a diagnosis: PFAPA, a hyper-inflammatory condition so rare only 500 kids in the US have it. The doctor's response? "There's nothing...

AI is everywhere in healthcare conversations. This episode asks the more uncomfortable question: what is it actually doing in real hospitals, with real patients, and real constraints?

Dr. Mark Bonta sits down with Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of SeamlessMD, for a clinician-first, workflow-grounded conversation about where AI delivers value today, where it still falls apart, and why “smart” tools often die quietly a...

Welcome back to Ditch the Labcoat for our 100th episode. Today we tackle a challenge that touches millions yet remains widely misunderstood: falls and balance loss in aging adults.

Host Dr. Mark Bonta sits down with Dan Metcalfe, Founder and CEO of Born SuperHuman and Total Balance Company, to challenge the dangerous assumption that falling is just "part of getting older." They reveal how falls are actually the number one cause of d...

In this episode of Ditch the Labcoat, Dr. Mark Bonta does something different. For the first time on the podcast, he speaks with a former patient.

Nora Rabah Rodden joins the show not as a clinician, but as someone who lived for years with debilitating symptoms that medicine couldn't explain or fix. Despite normal tests and repeated reassurance, her pain, GI symptoms, fatigue, and nervous system distress persisted. What she encounte...

Drawing from years as Professor at the University of ...

Mark and Matteo explore the difficult reality of du...

They unpack the science behind this breakthrough, showing how subtle shifts in tone, rhythm, and cadence can reveal early signs of depression, anxiety, Parkinson’s, or cognitive decline long...

Dr. Justin shares how a personal injury and a deep curio...

Halloween isn’t just about candy and costumes. In this special episode, Dr. Mark Bonta explores the science behind our favorite spooky-season habits, from the myth of the “sugar high” to the real risks behind thrill rides and haunted houses.

He unpacks how our brains process fear and excitement, why some people chase adrenaline while others avoid it, and how risk-benefit thinking can make us safer without killing t...