Tag: burnout
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Big Box Medical Fails to Match Patients with Their Ideal Doctors (and Vice Versa)
A profound lack of choice within Big Box Medical creates a matching problem that leads to dissatisfaction and disillusionment on both sides of the equation. Patients typically don’t get much choice over what doctor they see, especially if they want to in their medical insurer’s “network” to make the service at least remotely affordable. Doctors,…
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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…
