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Healthcare Road Rage
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk – and fear – about violence against healthcare executives. Less talked about is the near doubling of violent incidents against healthcare workers. Well, we’re going to talk about it. What’s behind the violence? Who’s involved? And, importantly, what can we do about it?
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We Need to Talk About Steward
April 25, 2024We Need to Talk About Steward A massive health system in the Northeast on the brink of collapse, private equity waiting (hiding?) in the wings, and hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of losing care? We need to talk about Steward Health. "When you...
Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage Healthcare
April 11, 2024Private Equity's Plan to Pillage Healthcare To put it bluntly, private equity is laundering their greed through the good will of healthcare. Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department's...
Meet the Glaucomfleckens
March 28, 2024Meet the Glaucomfleckens What happens when "Feelings Bro" and "A Guy Who's Good At Science and Can Lift 300lbs Directly Over His Head" meets Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken? Laughs, of course, but also a deadly serious conversation about how to use humor...
WTF Does “43cc” Mean?
March 14, 2024WTF Does 43cc Mean? Is it a podcast? A movement? A random show title that Wendy came up with because she couldn't think of anything else? What the f**k does "43cc" actually mean?!? Matt and Wendy explain what "43cc" is, but more importantly, why it...
The Health Insurance Industry’s Worst Nightmare
February 29, 2024"The Health Insurance Industry's Worst Nightmare" Healthcare professionals have long thought that insurance companies were lying to us. According to our next guest, we're right. Wendell Potter, former Senior VP of CIGNA, opens up about 'how health...
“Engineers should run Boeing. Doctors should run medicine.”
Earlier this year, Wendy shared a post from a physician friend who saw news of a door blowing off a Boeing 737 as a metaphorical omen for the state of US healthcare. That post struck a nerve. So, we wanted to talk to someone who’s been on the frontlines at Boeing – someone who saw that lives were at risk and spoke up – someone who the healthcare industry can learn from. Ed Pierson, a former Senior Manager in the Boeing 737 MAX factory, joins us to talk about how the drive for increased production schedules and profits trumped safety and experience. Sound familiar?
Former CEO of “The Hospital” Was Listening, and He Spoke Out
Last week, we aired a show about a rural hospital in Ohio. As it turns out, the former CEO of that very hospital, Phil Ennen, was listening. And he called in. Here is our conversation.
Rural Hospitals are Critically Ill
Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town, joins us to talk about how rural hospital culture and independence are collapsing under pressures to consolidate and corporatize, and how, ironically, those epicenters of care have precious little control over the factors most important for health.
The Things Doctors Carry
Why, as doctors, do we do what we do? Through a series of personal stories – from Matt, Wendy, and several of our listeners, we’ll take a look at the human experience of clinicians. We’ll talk about the stories, emotions, experiences – and patients – we carry with us and how that impacts who we are and how we care for others.
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