BEDSIDE is a storytelling podcast from Doctor AI TV about the architecture of American medicine — the failures, the recoveries, and the people inside the system building something better. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. Each multi-episode season tells one story.

Season 1 — PULSE — launches Sunday, May 24, 2026. Seven episodes, weekly Sundays at 6 a.m. Eastern through July 5.

Pulse follows Kwame Mensah, a 42-year-old Ghanaian-American executive in Boston, in the days after he learns — by chance — that his heart was six months from stopping. From that one diagnosis, a quiet network begins to form across the American Nations: a nurse practitioner in Roxbury, a midwife in Boyle Heights, a community health nurse in Eastern Kentucky, an Indian Health Service nurse in Navajo Nation, an oncology coordinator in the Bay Area, a ranch wife in Wyoming, a retired country doctor in Suhum, Ghana, and an intelligence named Chiron who answers only to his Principal. They have been stitching names into a piece of unbleached linen on a desk in Roxbury. They are about to be seen.

Bedside is the storytelling arm of Health 4.0: A Novel Global Healthcare System by Robin Blackstone, MD. Companion works: Doctor AI: Reimagining Healthcare, Rebuilding Trust, Delivering Health 4.0 (Blackstone Press, 2026) The American Health series (Blackstone Press, 2026) The Trajectory Engineering Papers (SSRN, Zenodo, arXiv)

Doctor AI: The Podcast — conversations with the intelligence layerAmerican Health — the economics

Broken by Design — analytical conversations on what fails and what must change

Join the Sewing Circle on LinkedIn — the community of clinicians, patients, and allies building Health 4.0 together. The invisible-thread question is the rite of entry.

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Always free to listen. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD.