Patient tips Posts

Oct. 8, 2024

Where to place your trust in the healthcare system

Being a patient in today’s convoluted healthcare system can feel lonely and often infuriating. While it’s often hard to know who is responsible for that, recent headlines have revealed the healthcare system’s ugly underbelly: that …

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June 17, 2024

Eps 22 and 23 Doctor Satisfaction and Trust in Doctors

In Episode 22 I talked with Dr. Karen Leitner, of Karen Leitner MD Coaching about why doctors are sometimes dissatisfied with how practicing medicine feels today. Moral injury, a term coined after the Vietnam War, describes how someone feels when th…

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May 21, 2024

Eps 18 and 19 US Drug Costs are Insane

As I researched for this two part episode, I was not too surprised to be reminded of how expensive medications in the US are for patients, but I was surprised by how much variance there is in cost from one person to the next, one plan to the next, e…

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March 29, 2024

Ep 12 Bosom Buddies

Let's face it, it totally sucks to have cancer, that's just a basic truth. Having people around you to help in various ways is really essential, whether it's family or friends or both. As I mentioned in the episode with Laura and Melissa, there are …

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