PULSE — EPISODE 1: THE PULSE

Season 1 of Bedside.

A pulse is what they call it when the heart, after a moment of silence, beats again. Kwame Mensah ran five miles on a Tuesday morning in March. He was forty-two years old. By every external metric American medicine knows how to read, he was well. He was, in fact, six months from dying.

ABOUT BEDSIDE

Bedside is a storytelling podcast from Doctor AI TV about the architecture of American medicine — the failures, the recoveries, and the people inside it building something better. Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. Each multi-episode season tells one story. Season 1: Pulse — seven episodes, weekly Sundays at 6 a.m. Eastern through July 5, 2026.

THE PROGRAM

Bedside is part of Health 4.0: A Novel Global Healthcare System by Robin Blackstone, MD

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)

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Written and narrated by Robin Blackstone, MD. Produced by Blackstone Press. © 2026 Blackstone Press.