Category: Burnout
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“The Way the System Is Going, I Didn’t See Any Other Solution Legally Available To Us.”
The quote in the headline is from Dr. John Wust, an obsetrician at Allina Health who voted with his colleagues to unionize in March 2023. Read the full article from Noam Scheiber of The New York Times here. When doctors are resorting to unionization, you know things are bad. At the time I was terminated…
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Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Tech, Big Pharma… Big Healthcare?
New York Times Headline: “Doctors Unionize at Big Health Care System” I love that the Times chose to refer to Allina Health as “Big Health Care System”. Doest that remind you of anything? Intentional or not, for me it brings to mind other notorious BIGs: Big OilBig TobaccoBig TechBig PharmaBiggie Smalls (j/k) There are plenty of perks to being…
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Hope Amidst Burnout and Despair: A Message Of For Physicians
Physicians are struggling and some are in despair, but there is plenty of room for hope. I’m grateful to the incomparably fierce physician advocate, Kim Downey, for putting this piece together and getting it published on a platform as widely read as KevinMD. It was published on September 17th, which is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day.…
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Direct Care: Remove The Middle Man When He’s Not Contributing
Direct care (doctor provides value; patient/consumer pays doctor directly in return for that value) removes the middle man when he is not adding value. I know this image doesn’t tell the whole story. It’s just a doodle. But it’s hard to argue with the core of it. Like automobile insurance (required by law in the…
