INBW38: What I'm Up to Right Now, Big RHV Plans for the Summer—Also Doug Pohl, Justina Lehman, and Dr. Amy Scanlan

Behind the Scenes: RHV's Summer Shorts Plans and a CKD Update, With Stacey Richter (INBW38)

Why RHV Is Running Summer Shorts This Year — Plus What Stacey's Up to Outside the Mic. INBW38.

What happens to the good five-to-ten-minute clips that get cut from a 32-minute episode for time? In this InBetweenisode, Stacey Richter shares three listener voicemails responding to her EP399/EP400 manifesto, unveils "Summer Shorts" — a season of short-form clips pulled from the cutting-room floor of past interviews — and gives an update on her CKD (chronic kidney disease) work at QC-Health.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ What prompted Stacey to start "Summer Shorts" — roughly half a dozen strong five-to-ten-minute insights that got cut from full episodes for time, not bloopers, now getting their own release

✅ Why listener voicemails from Doug Pohl, Justina Lehman, and Amy Scanlan, MD, underscore how isolating healthcare transformation work can feel — and why community matters

✅ How QC-Health is applying the same clinical-guideline-improvement process that lifted end-stage liver disease guideline use by 23% in six months to chronic kidney disease, where 50% of dialysis patients "crash into" dialysis via the ER and two in five had no idea they had CKD

✅ What else is on deck for the summer, including Stacey's Healthcare Influencer of the Year award from the Validation Institute and an upcoming keynote at the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health Symposium

WHY THIS MATTERS

The work of trying to fix a system this large and this entrenched can feel lonely and slow, which is exactly what this episode's listener voicemails speak to — the value isn't just in the insights, it's in knowing other people are in the trenches too. Summer Shorts also solves a real production problem: strong material that didn't fit a single episode's thesis doesn't have to just disappear.

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00:00 Introduction

01:14 Doug Pohl's manifesto.

02:43 Justina Lehman's thoughts on why our podcast listeners are important.

04:05 Dr. Amy Scanlan's voice mail.

04:39 Note from Rajiv Patel, MD, MBA, FACP.

05:01 Relentless Health Value's plans for the summer.

09:18 Stacey's plans for the summer.