Inside The Doctor's Lounge

Coming in January 2026: The Inside the Doctor’s Lounge Podcast

Inside The Doctor's Lounge

Show Notes

Inside the Doctor’s Lounge is a podcast by the Physician Side Gigs team, hosted by Dr. Nisha Mehta, which showcases popular topics from our online communities of over 220,000 physicians. We interview clinicians, healthcare innovators, and other experts about health innovation, entrepreneurship, things somebody probably should’ve taught us in medical school, and other topics that impact the future of healthcare.

More from Inside The Doctor's Lounge

Oct 20, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Joshua Guttman, associate professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University, and founder of Peachtree POCUS, to discuss how he transformed his expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into a multifaceted physician side business of education, consulting, advising, and industry relationships, while continuing his career in academic medicine.

Oct 13, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Morgan Cheatham, Partner and Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Breyer Capital, and Medical Genetics resident at Harvard, to discuss his fascinating career path as a venture capitalist while simultaneously pursuing medical training.

Oct 6, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Leeda Rashid, former Senior Physician at the FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence, to discuss the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence in healthcare and what physicians need to consider before incorporating AI tools into clinical practice.

Sep 29, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Howie Mell, an emergency medicine physician with decades of experience in emergency services, to reflect on how emergency medicine—and healthcare more broadly—has changed throughout his career.

Sep 22, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Amit Mehta, an interventional pain physician and founder of ABM Pain Consultants, who transitioned from traditional private practice to an independent 1099 model. He shares how his model of working across synergistic private practices and building out a personal injury and workers’ compensation practice has allowed him to reduce overhead, increase revenue per procedure, and build greater flexibility into his work.

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