On/Offcall: See the Best Slides on How to Prompt Using AI as a Clinician

Welcome back to On/Offcall!

Wow! This week, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker and Dr. Matt Sakumoto shared their AI prompts for fellow clinicians. We’re blown away: 500+ healthcare leaders from all over the world tuned in live to explore real-world case studies, live demos, and practical frameworks for how to prompt in healthcare.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined, to our phenomenal panelists Matt, Graham and Dr. Kai Romero, and to our sponsor Evidently for helping make it all possible. 🙌

A few top takeaways:
✅ Prompting is a real skill that needs to be honed and practiced over time.
✅ Real prompting frameworks — tailored to how clinicians work — can make a huge difference in what you get out of these tools.
✅ They reviewed actual examples of AI use cases, and tools, that are safe and can save clinicians time and ease workflows.

Webinar Link: If you couldn’t make it or want to watch the talk in full, you can find it here.

Webinar Slides: We released the key takeaways as well as Graham and Matt’s slides. Exciting news: You no longer need an NPI to sign up for Offcall (it’s also free!). Access the slides here.

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What a Top Longevity Doctor Actually Thinks About Supplements, Multivitamins, and Full Body Scans

This week’s How I Doctor guest is Dr. Hillary Lin, a Stanford-trained physician, healthcare entrepreneur, and longevity evangelist on a mission to make personalized, evidence-based care accessible to more people.

She co-leads Care Core, a platform that empowers health creators, clinicians, and wellness influencers to launch clinical‑grade health and longevity programs. And in this episode, Dr. Lin sits down with Graham to discuss what longevity medicine really looks like — and how we can start buying into actual health and not hype.

Together they discuss:
👉 Why taking 150 supplements a day isn’t the answer
👉 How to evaluate longevity claims with a physician’s mindset
👉 The risks of influencers and “biohackers” shaping public health
👉 Why individualized medicine is so hard — and still worth it
👉 What doctors should stop recommending to patients
👉 And what the future of predictive, personalized medicine could look like

Thank you, Dr. Hillary Lin, for cutting through the noise — and helping us practice smarter, evidence-based care. ❤️

Listen to the episode here

Emergency Physicians, see you at ACEP!

Starting today, we’ll be at our first-ever in-person event in Salt Lake City at the American College of Emergency Physicians conference! We’re also co-hosting an exclusive evening of cocktails, bites, and connection alongside Abridge, featuring remarks from Graham about what’s next for Offcall.

📆 Monday, Sept 8 from 6-9 pm MT
📍The Backdoor at Laziz Kitchen, Salt Lake City, UT
Space is limited — register now to secure your spot!

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Physician Builder Spotlight: Manju Dawkins

We’re shining light on MD-entrepreneurs! Each week, we feature an entrepreneurial doctor who’s building a cool product, company, or working on a big idea that you definitely want to know about. This week, meet Manju Dawkins, Founder and CEO of Thimble (more on the company’s mission below!). You can connect further with Manju on LinkedIn.

1. Manju, what inspired you to become a physician entrepreneur? I saw a huge problem that I was personally affected by, and that my patients were also affected by, and I realized that if I wasn’t going to solve it then who would? For me, it was less about wanting to “be an entrepreneur” and more about needing to address an issue not enough people were talking about.

2. Tell us what your company does and what problem you’re trying to solve. The problem is simple: human beings avoid needles, yet needles are still the best way to get information out of the body and the best way to get therapeutics in. Now, over 60% of adults experience needle fear, and yet we don’t talk about it — and we certainly don’t offer people alternative solutions. That’s where Thimble Health comes in. We’ve built a comprehensive platform of products that alleviate the pain and anxiety of needle procedures. We treat the pain before, during, and after the needle. And we address the emotional, psychological, and physical aspects of the experience.

3. What’s your advice to anyone who’s thinking about entrepreneurship or a nontraditional career in medicine? Open yourself up and go for it. The MD should not be a degree that limits you — it should expand your opportunities. Use your knowledge and your experience to solve the problems you see every day. Physicians bring a perspective that is sorely missing not just in healthcare, but in government, in tech, in art, and beyond.

4. How can a physician overcome their biggest fear to start a company? Some personal work helps here. The first step is to recognize your fears and what’s actually getting in your way. I found it really powerful to write or even draw out my dream. That’s what I did. I literally drew out the Thimble Prepare patch from my imagination — and it’s remarkable how close to reality that drawing ended up becoming. Putting your vision down on paper makes it feel tangible and possible.

5. What’s the #1 lesson you’ve learned since building your company that wasn’t obvious before? That it’s really a personal journey that is largely about shedding fear. Entrepreneurship forces you to look inward and realize we all have unlimited potential. We tend to put ourselves in boxes, or accept labels that others place on us — but those limits aren’t real. The other big lesson is: only you can build the company your way. Your unique set of experiences and expertise allow you to solve a problem in a way that’s not replicable. That means you don’t need to be afraid of sharing your ideas. No one can copy the way you would execute them.

6. Name the top resources you found most helpful to get going as an entrepreneur. I didn’t come into this with an MBA, so accelerators became my crash course in entrepreneurship. Much like medical school, part of it was just learning the jargon of business.

- CVC 2.8 — a non-dilutive accelerator created to help close the funding gap for women entrepreneurs (at the time, only 2.8% of VC funding went to women founders).

- Grid110 Friends & Family Accelerator — another non-dilutive program that gave me not just business tools but a founder community. That community has been priceless.

For me, accelerators were less about capital and more about connection, vocabulary, and confidence.

7. How can other physicians support you? Physicians can support us by:

- Purchasing our patches onthimblehealth.com — for themselves, their families, their patients. And use your HSA/FSA Accounts because everything is eligibile!

- Advocating in their institutions — because this should be part of the healthcare experience. Pain management is a right of all humans. We don’t only give anesthesia to people who are afraid of surgery; we give it universally. Needle care should be no different.

- Investing — we’re currently raising, and most of our individual investors are physicians. I’m proud of that fact.

- Sharing feedback — I welcome honest, constructive feedback from colleagues.

This excerpt has been shortened, read the full article here. Know someone else who should be featured? Reply or tag them and their company in the comments!

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Highlights From Our Community

Each week, we celebrate career milestones, launches, & other goings-on in the physician community. Have something to promote? Reply and we’ll feature you.

✅ Well put, Arti Thangudu
Dr. Arti Thangudu opened up about residency salaries and the changes she’d make to fix residency. Thanks for speaking up! Read it here.

🎙️ Give it a listen, Skin Deep MDs
The Skin Deep MDs podcast hosted by Dr. Mamina Turegano, Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky, and Dr. Jenny Liu, featured Dr. Betsy Grunch for an important episode about why women CAN do it all in medicine. Give it a listen here.

❤️ Great Labor Day reflections, Florian Dibra
Dr. Florian Dibra reflected about his first five years in practice and finding meaning and joy in medicine in a timely Labor Day post. Read it here.

🤔 Thought provoking post, Alec Palmerton
Dr. Alec Palmerton created a thought provoking video about how the modern residency program was created. See it here.

🎙️ Add it to your podcasts, Glenn Loomis
Dr. Glenn Loomis spoke with Hippolyte Asah on The Smart Office Podcast about the future of AI in medical practice and his work on Query Health. Listen here.

💡 Grab the spotlight, Robyn Gartner Roth
Dr. Robyn Gartner Roth was featured as a breast radiologist using her platform to educate and inspire others by the Society of Breast Imaging. See it here.

✅ Well put, Iqra Aftab
Dr. Iqra Aftab reflected on her work as a specialist and why she believes moving away from fee-for-service is the only way to give more time to her patients. Read it here.

🎉 Congratulations, Andrew Ibrahim
Dr. Andrew Ibrahim joined Viz.ai as their Chief Clinical Officer! Congratulate him here.

🎉🥳 Also congratulations, Akansha Sharma
Dr. Akanksha Sharma is starting as Director at Sutter Health! Congratulate her here.

🎉🥳🎉 Still more congratulations, Nona Hanson 
Dr. Nona Hanson is starting as a physician at Curai Health. Congratulate her here!

Calling All Cataract Surgeons: Job Opportunity Alert!

Doctors in Network (DIN) is hiring ambitious and outcomes-oriented ophthalmologists for its first cohort of Rotating Surgeons with hospitals in underserved areas. To learn more and to apply, see here or get in touch with Dr. Quinn Wang (who was previously profiled on Offcall here).

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