Category: Business
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Time Blocking — If You Don’t Control Your Email, It Will Control You
My calendar in 2024 is going to look way different than it did in 2023. And I mean that as much in a literal sense as in a figurative one. Use your calendar to visualize your day. Prioritize and schedule your non-negotiables. (Business, of course, but don’t forget the 4 Fs: fitness, family, fun, food).…
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How Big Health Insurance Distorted and Destroyed a Good Product
What is insurance? Insurance is a tool for protection against financial loss. It’s not a tool that should be used to pay for relatively small things that happen frequently, as we tend to do with health insurance. For me, it’s all about mitigating the risk posed by occurrences that would, without insurance, create significant financial…
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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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Terminated Without Cause, Effective Immediately
Today is about amplifying someone else’s story. By reading Ashley Saucier, MD, MHA, FACEP, FAAP’s abrupt termination story, I hope others can learn, gain awareness and empathy, and start thinking about what they can do to make themselves more prepared to weather a storm like this if it happens. If something like this has happened to…
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So You’ve Been (Abruptly) Terminated…
I discussed, among other things, my without cause, abrupt termination by my employer on the October 28, 2023 episode of The Podcast by KevinMD. I’m grateful to Kim Downey, a fierce advocate for physicians, and Kevin Pho, M.D., for facilitating this important conversation and helping bring it to a larger audience. Doctors need to know their jobs…
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The 3 Second Product Masterclass: Easy, Fast, Effective
I haven’t yet written much about creating or selling products, but a recent post in My LinkedIn News feed got me thinking. “Weight loss drugs could be on the way to becoming a $100 billion industry. Firms from Citi to Goldman Sachs say sales of treatments like Wegovy (the sister drug to Ozempic) and Mounjaro…
