The Future of Women's Health: AI, Medical Bias & Personalized Care | Dr. Nasim Afsar | Golden Hour, Episode 66
Golden Hour
What happens when medicine becomes more technologically advanced without becoming more responsive to the people it serves?
In this episode of Golden Hour, Dr. O sits down with Dr. Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, physician executive, former Chief Health Officer at Oracle, and author of Intelligent Health, to explore why healthcare needs more than new technology. It needs a fundamentally different approach to understanding patients, supporting clinicians, and designing systems of care.
Drawing on her experience as both a practicing physician and healthcare executive, Dr. Afsar reflects on the early moments that exposed the failures of our healthcare system—and why physician burnout cannot be addressed through individual resilience alone.
The conversation turns to a particularly consequential question: What happens when the evidence guiding medical care doesn't adequately represent women?
From the language of “atypical” heart attack symptoms to the trial-and-error nature of many perimenopause and menopause treatments, Dr. Afsar and Dr. O examine how historical gaps in research continue to shape clinical decisions today.
They also explore the promise and limitations of artificial intelligence in healthcare: how better use of data could support more personalized treatment, why technology is only as useful as the information and intentions behind it, and what it might mean to design care around the realities of people's lives.
In this conversation:
- Why physician burnout reflects deeper problems in healthcare designHow technology can improve care while introducing new burdens and risksWhy women's symptoms have historically been measured against male-centered researchThe limitations of trial-and-error approaches to menopause treatmentWhat AI might make possible in more personalized women's healthcareWhy housing, food access, and other everyday circumstances must be part of the healthcare conversationThe vision behind Dr. Afsar's book, Intelligent Health
This is a conversation about moving beyond the assumption that more technology automatically means better medicine—and imagining a healthcare system that understands the whole person.
Guest: Dr. Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA
Book: Intelligent Health
Hosted by Dr. Ono Nseyo, board-certified OB/GYN and host of Golden Hour.
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