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Date: 7/30/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 26 Advocate Toolkit, Hospital Edition Episode summary: It's so incredibly complicated to be a patient today, as I recently observed when I hung out at the b...
Date: 7/22/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 25 The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage, Part 2 Episode summary: Part 2 discussing why Medicare Advantage plans are an actual DISadvantage for you and for...
Date: 6/16/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 24 The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage, Part 1 Episode summary: Wow, I knew Medicare was complicated but didn't realize just how complicated. I've spent ...
Date: 6/18/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 23 In Doctors We Trust Episode summary: What is trust as it relates to the doctor-patient relationship? How is it fostered when the very healthcare system i...
Date: 6/11/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 22 Doctors in Distress Episode summary: The majority of doctors today are dissatisfied with the healthcare system. That's not to say that they don't want to...
Date: 4/64/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 21 How We Learn to Be a Patient, Part 2 Episode summary: Continuing from the end of last season, Ep 12, where I talked with my own daughter about …
Date: 5/28/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 20 Short Stories on Being a Patient Episode summary: I have this never-ending quest to help doctors and patients understand each other better. This collecti...
Date: 5/21/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 19 US Drug Costs Are Insane, Part 2 Episode summary: Part 2 follows the last episode, where I reviewed how we got to where we are with insane drug …
Date: 5/07/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 18 US Drug Costs Are Insane, Part 1 Episode summary: Wow, drug costs in the US have skyrocket in recent years. The popularity of Ozempic and other weight lo...
Date: 4/30/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 17 Big Hospital Break Up Episode summary: I’m breaking up with my hospital. I live in Chicago, with its plethora of academic medical centers. I’ve long beli...
Date: 4/23/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 16 Race and Healthcare: Teaching Med Students Episode summary: Episode 3 of 3 of a miniseries on racial disparities in healthcare. We've heard from Linda Vi...
Date: 4/16/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 15 One Man's Experince Episode summary: Last week we heard from Linda Villarosa on the impact slavery still has on our modern healthcare system and how it l...
Date: 4/9/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 14 Slavery and Modern Healthcare Episode summary: Many of the health inequities that we see in healthcare today stem from beliefs held in the time of slavery...
Have you ever spent hours, days or weeks trying to get money back from a health insurance claim? If you have, this episode will let you know that you're not alone. If you haven't, this will give you some insight …
Date: 3/25/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 12 Bosom Buddies Episode summary: Today's episode is a fly-on-the-wall perspective for you of how friends talk about cancer. A couple of my friends and I al...
Season 2 is coming soon! During this break I’ve been spending more and more time on the healthcare of my friends and family lately. I continue to act as a doctor friend to whomever needs it, helping guide people through …
Date: 7 /19/22 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 11 How We Learn to Be a Patient Episode summary: My daughter had an encounter at a doctor's office recently, which was her first time going for a …
A rundown of who's who in hospital, ER and clinic settings. It can be really confusing to be a patient and not know what each person's role is when you're receiving health care.
Date: 6/13/22 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 10 Pushback, Part 2 Episode summary: How did we get to where we are today, where health insurance companies dictate how medicine should be practiced between...
Hear stories of a couple of doctors that are pushing back on a dysfunctional system by upending their practice model.
"Mistakes happen" - an old saying but total reality. And medicine is no different - doctors are human, and medical care is complicated. Some errors are tiny, some go unnoticed, but today's stories are about both the ultimate price paid …
Doctor burnout, caused by moral injury, is on the rise just as a looming doctor shortage and rising aging population is on our doorstep. But there is help to be had, if you take time out of your busy day …
House calls, no insurance woes, time with the patient - these are beginning to be only a thing of the past with doctors and patients. Let's examine where we've come from.
There are doctors who will, on occasion, take the time to go so far above and beyond the expected call of their duty to help patients out that it's worth hearing their stories.