The Paradocs Podcast
Summary: The Paradocs is a fun and lively discussion with a couple of docs on the practice of medicine. Occasionally serious, other times lighthearted, and accidentally informative. A show for physicians to learn more about what is going on and a great place for them to direct their friends and family to better understand the challenges they face.
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Would residents (doctors in training) forget to rest and nap if there was no bureaucrat making rules regulating it? Would people leave rotten food in refrigerators without ACGME accrediting body recommendations? Who exactly is in charge in the hospital teaching centers? Do the hospitals function to get people better and who new doctors how to do it or do they exist to enforce rules from far off bureaucracies at the expense of educating new doctors and treating their patients?
Why is health insurance so expensive? Why have premiums accelerated under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) even more than they were before? Even with the increased guaranteed coverage requirements, the price increases on premiums has outstripped those variables even more than you would expect.
What does it mean to treat a patient? Is it knowing your patient and making an educated decisions about how best to treat them or is it viewing people in the aggregate and working towards making the best medical choices for your community or health system? This is the crux of the question that Dr. Michel Accad poses when deciding how you want to practice medicine (or be cared for by physicians.)
What impact do FDA (Food & Drug Administration) regulations have on Americans? Are they truly benign or could they be costing us not only extra money at the pharmacy but our lives? Today, Dr. Mary Ruwart and I discuss the true impact of FDA regulations and how they do in fact shave years off of our lives.
Episode 009: Doctors Getting Worked Over by the ABIM with Dr. Wes Fisher
One unique stressor facing physicians is malpractice litigation. Its occurrence is so common that 10% of physicians are in the litigation process at any one time. The incidence of physicians admitting to suicidal ideation in a year is 7% - twice the rate of the general population!
Join me as Dr. Wacasey's folksy humor, vignettes, and aphorisms take you on a humorous journey to leave you better informed the next time you head into the health insurance market.
Episode 006: "Doc, I'm Over Here, That's Just a Computer Screen." Why Don't Electronic Health Records Help with Dr. Ken Fisher
Episode 001: What is Maintenance of Certification and Why You Should Care.
Are you aware that we face critical shortages of basic medication and medical supplies on a daily basis in the United States? Currently, over 100 generic medications are at various levels of critical supplies. Spinal anesthetic kits are undersupplied as are a large number of chemotherapeutic medicines. If we have a country where you never have to go a day without kale in the supermarket, why should we not have basic pain medications for months?
Have you wondered what the steps are to open your own direct primary care practice? Whether you are a resident physician or established physician this episode will offer a guide to starting your own practice to begin practicing medicine the way you want on your own terms. In this episode, Eric and Chad walk through the advantages of opening a direct primary care practice and each step you need to complete to make the plunge.
In this episode, Eric and Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI3) discuss the state of health care in the United States and what changes are likely to transpire at the federal level. Is Congress hopeless (spoiler alert: yep)? What would he do if he were in charge of transforming the US Health Care Industry? Which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars?
In this episode, Eric speaks with Dr. Belen Amat, a med/peds physician who switched from a traditional medical practice of using insurance to one of direct primary care in Grand Rapids, MI. Eric & Belen discuss the direct primary care model for delivering health care in America. Dr. Amat describes how the switch to a new model changed her whole attitude about primary care and has made her happier, empathetic, and a better doctor.
Eric & Meg discuss what maintenance of certification (MOC) is and why it is a problem for physicians and their patients. Meg describes why the MOC process is so destructive to the practice of medicine and why non-physicians should care.
