When Hospital CEO's and Leapfrog LIE to the Public: False Advertising Based On Old/Bad Data
This morning, I sent out a passel of e-mails to selected representatives and Senators in the NC General Assembly . . . begging for much-needed, post-pandemic medical reforms in North Carolina.I am all for the NC General Assembly supporting the healthcare industry in North Carolina - but they need to do it without otherwise killing the doctors and nurses working in it. The " right to work " for doctors and nurses in North Carolina (if we are indeed doing what the Governor calls " God ' s work " ) MUST be about something other than the right to have our lives devalued, disrupted and brutally eviscerated (as mine was la...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 5, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint JCAHO Leapfrog Medical Whistleblower Mother-Baby Care NCDHHS Quality Assruance Source Type: blogs
As One Licensed NC Physician To Another Unlicensed One (Dr. Mary Johnson to Dr. Mandy Cohen/NC DHHS Secretary): PROTECT MEDICAL WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW!
Related to mylast post - which went up (after much soul-searching and trepidation) on 2/28/20201 one of the biggest complaints (coming largely from folks reading on mobile phones) was that the post was " so long " . They wanted something more " concise " . The post relates my own horrific pandemic experience with Central Carolina Hospital/ApolloMD and Duke Lifepoint in Sanford, North Carolina. It ' s my third dance as a medical whistle-blower in 23 years. And much like the first two cases (Asheboro in 1998, and ETSU/Ballad Health in 2017), it ' s really NOT " soundbite " material (it would ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 4, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ApolloMD Central Carolina Hospital CMS Dr. Seuss Duke Lifepoint HIPAA Mandy Cohen Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Pediatric Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight
Author ' s Note: I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr. The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review. NO discussion. NO recourse. NO review. A total cover-up. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enfor...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 28, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ACA Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Ballad Heath Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint ETSU Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Quality Assruance Randolph Health Richard Burr Trump Source Type: blogs
Letizia Alto, MD on why to become a semi-retired MD [PODCAST]
“Something had to give, and it would either be clinical medicine, or my business. I finally had to admit I was no longer fulfilled to the same level doing hospitalist work. So I made the decision to leave my clinical job. It was so terrifying that I put off making a decision for months. I […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 24, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Infertility and the physician journey [PODCAST]
“I am a medical doctor —a hospitalist working in an environment with many talented professionals. We share our knowledge and our approach to medicine with one another in ways that profoundly affect our patients and other personnel in the hospital. At our best, we are a community whose foundation is a willingness and ope nness to discuss […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
How Hospital Stays Resemble Enhanced Interrogation
Ken Mishark is a hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic who formerly served as a physician in the military. Early in his career, he interviewed for a job in the CIA. That experience might explain why he paid attention when the CIA declassified a manual it had ... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Paradoxical Under-employment of Rehab Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic
I used to joke that for all the hardships of being a physician, at least we had job security. Little did I know that a viral illness would put some physicians “on the bread line.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physician workforce in both anticipated and unanticpated ways. While stay-at-home orders decrease temporary demand for cosmetic and elective surgical procedures by dermatologists and orthopedic surgeons, inpatient rehabilitation facilities are also feeling the squeeze, though the number of patients who need their services are growing exponentially (due to post-COVID syndromes).
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Source: Better Health - January 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disability Locum Tenens Long COVID Physiatry Physician Workforce PM&R Rehabilitation Physician Under-employment Unemployment Source Type: blogs
Normalizing infertility conversations in the workplace
I am a medical doctor —a hospitalist working in an environment with many talented professionals. We share our knowledge and our approach to medicine with one another in ways that profoundly affect our patients and other personnel in the hospital. At our best, we are a community whose foundation is a willingness and o penness to discuss […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kate-hoppock" rel="tag" > Kate Hoppock, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 is a war on two fronts [PODCAST]
“I ’m exhausted. As the pandemic rages on, the mental toll of dealing with COVID-19 has started to wear on me. As a practicing hospitalist in the Midwest impacted by one of the many hotspots caused by the meatpacking industry, I have spent a fair bit of time with this virus on the frontline. Some asp ects […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
A hospitalist ’s COVID reflection
Amidst the height of the COVID pandemic in New York City, I turned to Netflix to find morsels of yesterday, which seemed so distant then. During this time, I discovered Mindy Kaling ’s creation, Never Have I Ever. The show tries to tell the story of a protagonist who is struggling to find compassion for her […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sameen-farooq" rel="tag" > Sameen Farooq, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Meet the physician who became a life coach [PODCAST]
“For the past six months, I ’ve spent my free time becoming a certified life coach. I’m a hospitalist, but a little more than a year ago, I was introduced to life coaching. I love the changes it has produced in my life – particularly how it’s changed me as a mother. Coaching helps me to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Hospitals Must Give Up Power to Save Healthcare
By KEN TERRY
(This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.)
As hospital systems become larger and employ more physicians, healthcare prices will continue to rise and independent doctors will find it harder to remain independent. Hospitals will never fully embrace value-based care as long as it threatens their primary business model, which is to fill beds and generate outpatient revenues. To create a viable, sustainable healthcare system, the market power of hospita...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Costs healthcare reform Hospitals Ken Terry Source Type: blogs
When we coach, we change the lives of our children
For the past six months, I ’ve spent my free time becoming a certified life coach. I’m a hospitalist, but a little more than a year ago, I was introduced to life coaching. I love the changes it has produced in my life– particularly how it ’s changed me as a mother. Coaching helps me to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/trina-e-dorrah" rel="tag" > Trina E. Dorrah, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
To Avoid Pay Cuts, Doctors Must Reduce Waste
By KEN TERRY
(This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.)
Real healthcare reform depends on an effective plan to reduce cost growth. To achieve this goal, it makes a whole lot more sense to cut waste than to limit access to necessary services or slash provider payments to the bone, noted Donald Berwick, MD, a former acting CMS administrator, and Andrew D. Hackbarth, a RAND Corp. researcher, in a 2012 JAMA article. In their telling, a significant reduction in wast...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy healthcare reform Ken Terry Source Type: blogs
