Omar Matuk-Villazon

Physician | Builder | Dad | Suvida Healthcare | Direct Access Care | Clinical Tech | Investment

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@Usoppu Love this! I did it when no kids

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@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

@DrDiGiorgio All doctors are underpaid.

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@suekhim I am interested

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@cleoabram Best interview ever @cleoabram ! Inspired my three kids

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The Demis Hassabis HUGE* Conversation (in full)

00:00 What is the hardest problem AI has already solved?
12:30 What is the cutting edge of drug discovery with AI?
21:53 Why did Demis say he “would have left AI in the lab longer”?
43:09 How should militaries use AI?
50:13 What can humans do that AI won't?
58:17 What does Demis Hassabis want his legacy to be?

(And 1:04:40 Can I beat Demis at Jenga?)

Recorded March 5, 2026 in London.

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4 years in, and we are just getting started. To the Suvida team, nuestros pacientes y familia and our community: thank you for trusting the vision.

The best is yet to come.

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4 years ago I started Suvida healthcare it was just a vision on paper. Today, it’s a living, breathing mission serving our community. Building this has been the hardest and most rewarding journey of my life.

Here are 6 raw lessons I’ve learned about leadership and survival: 👇

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On True Leadership

Leadership is a team sport.

Liderazgo es construir un equipo y guiarlos hacia donde quieres llegar. It’s not about being the hero; it’s about empowering a group of people to see the vision and giving them the tools to build the bridge to get there.

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@DrMauinforma Amen mi querido amigo

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@ThisWeeknAI I’m in

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@Jason I’m in

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

🇲🇽 Is Mexico actually getting safer? Even our most conservative measure says yes.

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I criticize the healthcare system on this account every day. The 14-minute appointment. The three-marker panel called comprehensive. The screening model that waits for disease instead of identifying risk. I’ve built an entire brand around pointing out what the system misses.

But hoping AI “puts doctors in their place” is not the take.

I’ve worked alongside physicians for 15 years. I’ve called them at 3 AM with critical lab values that required immediate decisions. I’ve watched them hold a family together in a hallway after delivering the worst news of that family’s life. I’ve seen them catch things on a physical exam that no algorithm would have flagged because the patient’s chart said one thing and their face said another.

The 14-minute appointment isn’t the doctor’s choice. It’s the system’s. The billing model, the insurance structure, the administrative burden that requires more documentation staff than clinical staff. Most doctors I’ve worked with want more time with their patients. The system won’t give it to them. Blaming the physician for a structural problem is like blaming the lab tech for the specimen that arrived hemolyzed because the phlebotomist rushed the draw. The failure happened upstream.

AI will make healthcare better. I use AI every day. It helps me research faster, organize information, and deliver better content. In medicine, it’ll help with diagnostic pattern recognition, imaging analysis, drug interaction screening, and the patient education gap that currently goes unfilled because there’s no time in the appointment for it.

But AI doesn’t palpate an abdomen. It doesn’t hear the thing you almost didn’t say. It doesn’t sit across from you when the biopsy comes back and help you decide what comes next. And it doesn’t carry the weight of being wrong when the stakes are someone’s life.

The system needs fixing. The doctors aren’t the part that’s broken.

Don’t wait for the diagnosis.

Read the label.

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@DrMauinforma Amen