Carly shares her perspective on relationship-based care, what it means to practice whole-person medicine, and why the art of healthcare matters just as much as the science. The conversation explores where conventional systems fall short, how administrative burden affects clinicians, and why so much of modern care delivery is shaped by inefficient systems rather than patient needs.

They also discuss informed patients, “Dr. Google,” how new medical evidence reaches frontline care, and the opportunity for technology to support more proactive, preventative, and collaborative healthcare.

In this episode:

• Why Carly chose naturopathic medicine
• The role of relationship-based and whole-person care
• The art of medicine and what healing really means
• Clinician burnout and administrative friction in practice
• Informed patients, online health information, and trust
• Why new science takes so long to reach primary care
• Prevention, longevity, and the future of collaborative healthcare

About the guest

Dr. Carly Akehurst is a naturopathic doctor and founder of Clementine Clinic in Vancouver, BC, where she focuses on integrative, whole-person care for patients navigating chronic conditions, prevention, and long-term health.

Healthcare is full of smart people — but the system still doesn’t work as well as it should.

In the first episode of Healing Healthcare, we speak with Dr. Ali Okhowat, a practicing physician and the co-founder of AutoChart.ai, about the realities of modern clinical work and how AI may reshape healthcare workflows.

Ali works at the intersection of frontline medicine and health technology. In this conversation, we explore physician burnout, the documentation burden facing clinicians, and how emerging AI tools — including AI scribes and voice agents — may help reduce administrative work and improve care delivery.

We also discuss how healthcare could evolve toward more proactive and asynchronous models of care as new technologies enable better communication between patients and providers.

In this episode we discuss

• Physician burnout and “pajama time” charting

• Why documentation has become such a burden for clinicians

• The rapid rise of AI scribes in healthcare

• Voice agents and automation in clinical workflows

• Safety, trust, and regulation for healthcare AI

• The shift toward proactive and asynchronous care

About the guest

Dr. Ali Okhowat is a physician and researcher and the co-founder of AutoChart.ai, a company building AI-powered tools to reduce documentation burden and improve healthcare workflows.

This podcast brings together physicians, founders, and healthcare leaders to have honest conversations about what’s broken in healthcare and what it will take to fix it.

Join our co-hosts Rian Gauvreau and Ryan Oakman as we explore healthcare innovation across clinical practice, policy, and technology — from digital health and AI in healthcare to the systems and people reshaping how care is delivered.

Each episode dives into the real challenges of modern medicine and the ideas driving the future of healthcare.

If you care about the future of medicine — and aren’t afraid to question the status quo — this podcast is for you.

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