Send us Fan Mail

A child’s eczema flare-up during COVID becomes the spark for a bigger rethink of healthcare access. We sit down with technologist and future visionary Sir Ed Clinkett to unpack CU, a digital triage app built around a simple promise: give people a clearer way to explain what’s wrong, and give clinicians better information before a patient ever arrives. If you’ve ever been stuck in call queues, bounced between services, or tried to describe symptoms in the wrong words, you’ll recognise the problem CU is trying to solve.

We get practical about how it works: pointing to a body-based interface, answering focused clinical questions, capturing vitals where possible, and producing a severity summary tied to triage pathways. Then we widen the lens to what really changes when this scales, from multilingual support (including the challenge of local dialects) to offline-first community triage that can sync later and reveal patterns district by district. That opens the door to faster responses to outbreaks, environmental health impacts, and the kind of real-time visibility public health teams rarely get.

We also go straight at the trust question. We talk encryption, data sovereignty, and why owning your own medical record matters when so many systems profit from health data. Sir Ed shares a vision of permissioned, secure sharing and interoperability built around recognised standards like HL7 FHIR, plus a rollout approach that keeps the app free for end users while working with countries to pilot and integrate rather than replace existing systems.

If this future sounds worth building, subscribe, share the episode with someone who cares about healthcare reform, and leave a review. What would make you trust a patient-owned health record enough to use it?

Music, lyrics, guitar and singing by Dr Ariel Rosita King

Teach me to live one day at a time
with courage love and a sense of pride.
Giving me the ability to love and accept myself
so I can go and give it to someone else.
Teach me to live one day at a time.....

Support the show

The Business of Life
Dr Ariella (Ariel) Rosita King
Original Song, "Teach Me to Live one Day At A Time"
written, guitar and vocals by Dr. Ariel Rosita King

Dr King Solutions (USA Office)
1629 K St, NW #300,
Washington, DC 20006, USA,
+1-202-827-9762
DrKingSolutons@gmail.com
DrKingSolutions.com

Send us Fan Mail

“Accessible” should never be a leap of faith, yet that’s exactly what travel becomes when a hotel listing offers a tick-box label and no usable detail. We sit down with Sir Diego Dupont, a tech builder behind accessible.hotel.eu and the Nusa Bali resort project in the south of France, to unpack why so many trips fail at the basics: the bathroom you cannot enter, the pool you cannot reach, the restaurant with a hidden step, the “accessible room” that still doesn’t work for your body or your needs.

We get specific about what disabled travellers actually need to know before they book: bed height, transfer space, shower chair set-up, lift access, routes through lobbies and restaurants, and whether the amenities that make a holiday feel like a holiday are truly usable. Sir Diego explains how accessibility assessments are done through physical visits by people with different disabilities, and why verified, certified data beats vague promises on big OTAs every time. We also challenge the industry mindset that treats accessibility as compliance, not independence, and talk honestly about why some accessible rooms feel clinical, get left empty, and damage both dignity and revenue.

The bigger takeaway is universal design: building places that look beautiful and work well for everyone, without creating “special” spaces that quietly exclude. If you care about accessible tourism, inclusive design, or simply want travel to be less stressful for more people, this conversation is a practical reset. Subscribe for more, share the episode with someone who plans trips for others, and if it resonates, leave us a review with the one accessibility detail you wish every hotel listed upfront.

Music, lyrics, guitar and singing by Dr Ariel Rosita King

Teach me to live one day at a time
with courage love and a sense of pride.
Giving me the ability to love and accept myself
so I can go and give it to someone else.
Teach me to live one day at a time.....

Support the show

The Business of Life
Dr Ariella (Ariel) Rosita King
Original Song, "Teach Me to Live one Day At A Time"
written, guitar and vocals by Dr. Ariel Rosita King

Dr King Solutions (USA Office)
1629 K St, NW #300,
Washington, DC 20006, USA,
+1-202-827-9762
DrKingSolutons@gmail.com
DrKingSolutions.com

Send us Fan Mail

One month you are walking four to six kilometres a day with no breathlessness. The next, you are in hospital hearing the words “end-stage congestive heart failure” and being told the only way forward is an emergency heart transplant. That whiplash is at the centre of our conversation with Dr. Lawrence R Levy, a PhD psychotherapist who has lived through both severe physical illness and the long shadow of mental health stigma.

We talk through the timeline from the first “it must be food poisoning” symptoms to an ambulance ride, a transfer to Toronto General Hospital, and the brutal clarity of a heart functioning at just over 10%. Lawrence shares what it is like to stay lucid when the body is failing, how spirituality and meaning-making can show up in crisis, and the surreal moment of being placed at the top of the transplant waiting list for barely a day before surgery. We also unpack the genetics, including a titin (TTN) gene mutation, and what it means to learn your heart failure is largely inherited.

Recovery is not just medical. We explore the breathing-tube wake-up, the gratitude that follows, the impact on family relationships, and the lifelong aftercare that comes with transplantation, from immunosuppressant medication to the reality of a denervated heart. The conversation then widens into mental health: Lawrence reflects on living with bipolar I disorder for decades, why he hid his diagnosis while working in the helping professions, and how this near-death experience pushes him towards advocacy, speaking, and psychoeducation.

If this story moves you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs hope, and leave a review so more people can find it. What part of Lawrence’s journey changed the way you think about survival and identity?

Music, lyrics, guitar and singing by Dr Ariel Rosita King

Teach me to live one day at a time
with courage love and a sense of pride.
Giving me the ability to love and accept myself
so I can go and give it to someone else.
Teach me to live one day at a time.....

Support the show

The Business of Life
Dr Ariella (Ariel) Rosita King
Original Song, "Teach Me to Live one Day At A Time"
written, guitar and vocals by Dr. Ariel Rosita King

Dr King Solutions (USA Office)
1629 K St, NW #300,
Washington, DC 20006, USA,
+1-202-827-9762
DrKingSolutons@gmail.com
DrKingSolutions.com