Kushal Shah
Investor in the GCC: former Managing Director at e& Capital (the CVC arm of e&/Etisalat), co-founder of Dubai Angel Investors, and now GP of an SME rollup fund and Growth Venture Partner at Raed Ventures.
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Jun 2, 2026
Kushal ShahGUEST
I mean, actually, sorry, I'm gonna, uh, uh, just, uh, come in with a point, 'cause I think this actually reflects in both of our careers.
Kushal ShahGUEST
Again, we met 20 years ago when Kush was an advisor like me in a consulting role, and, you know, I, I watched how he deals with clients and with his people, and it very much mirrors...
Kushal ShahGUEST
I know you want us to disagree about stuff and be controversial, but this is something I think we have in common.
Kushal ShahGUEST
Like, you, you are, that's part of your legacy too, is engendering, um, you know, devotion to rigor and excellence and service delivery and all of that stuff, if that's what you're doing in life.
38 MINS LATER
Kevin PoeHOST
What are some advances in technologies to manage dental pain to alleviate their fear of needles?
Kaushal ShahGUEST
So just, you know, the first thing, I don't know, there are clinicians using it, but not many of them.
Kaushal ShahGUEST
Even not, like, advanced technology, but even with the regular, your, your anesthetics, you can also make, make it easy for my patients.
Kaushal ShahGUEST
So you can use anesthetics without using epinephrine, because we, we know that, like, you know, the injection pain is coming mostly from the burning sensation of epinephrine.
Kaushal ShahGUEST
So what I use is, like, you know, before I do any kind of, like, kind of, let's say, lidocaine as anesthetic, I use lido- like, a plain anesthetic without epinephrine.
Kevin PoeHOST
So what's your opinion in terms of the decision points a patient should make about whether they should undergo general anesthesia or not?