American. Black. Doctor: Uncensored
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Dr. Jenny Powell, MD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/finding-joy-meaning-and-your-soul-in-medicine-and-life/ The Covid fiasco brought to light burnout in physicians and nurses. Just what is burnout? A reaction to long term stress with symptoms like emotional exhaustion, feeling of decreased personal achievement, and lack of empathy toward patients at least once a […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Katy Talento – https://www.americaoutloud.news/healthcare-sharing-ministries-are-a-great-alternative-to-surging-medical-costs-and-the-affordable-care-act/ Health insurance as we know it is a relatively new phenomenon. Accident insurance existed in the United States since the mid 1800s, becoming more prevalent as the industrial revolution brought more on the job injuries. Companies had onsite doctors who were paid by deductions […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with James Enstrom, PhD –https://www.americaoutloud.news/stop-stereotyping-stop-dei-indoctrination-bring-back-critical-thinking/ People have wondered whether many of our leaders and thinkers would pass the test for becoming a faculty member at as University of California campus. What about Frederick Douglass who said: “… And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Travis Morell, MD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/what-people-want-from-their-patient-physician-relationship/ Works on the scientific and ethical practice of medicine called the Corpus Hippocraticum are attributed to Hippocrates (450 – 375 BC), considered the father of medicine. The quote “do no harm” is not in the Oath of Hippocrates, but rather in another […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Twila Brase, RN, PHN –https://www.americaoutloud.news/hacking-electronic-health-records-medicare-disadvantages-and-measles/ Hacking into electronic databases has become child’s play. Since 2018, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights tracked a 256 percent increase in large data breaches involving hacking and a 264 percent increase in ransomware. With ransomware, the database […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Kelly Sutton, MD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/are-medical-boards-helping-or-hurting-patients/ The patient-physician relationship is supposed to be sacred, as Hippocrates explained thousands of years ago. Medicine has entered a brave new world of third parties (insurers) telling us what to do. Various laws, particularly in California, are squelching choice for patients and […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Wendell Potter – https://www.americaoutloud.news/wendell-potter-is-the-insurance-industrys-worst-nightmare/ When I was in law school, the first elective I signed up for was Insurance Law. Unfortunately for the future lawyers of America, this enlightening class had few students. The teacher began with a joke: Farmers paid a claim. The class reinforced my […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Andy Schlafly, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/doctors-and-patients-or-bureaucrats-whos-in-charge-of-our-medical-care-2/ Political persecution through the legal system has become the new American justice. But it can work both ways – if we have the courage. President Calvin Coolidge, a strong proponent of limited government, believed that “in order for the Constitution and self-government […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Dr. Jane Hughes – https://www.americaoutloud.news/from-physician-to-activist-meet-jane-hughes-md/ There was a time when patients sought medical care from a physician, not a “healthcare system.” Now there’s over-priced health insurance that falls short when you actually need it; Medicare Advantage plans that trap you like a roach motel and then don’t […]
From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Tammy Weitzman – https://www.americaoutloud.news/dei-and-antisemitism-meet-a-lawsuit-with-tammy-weitzman/ What strange times we live in now. We have gone from the era of Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man, brilliantly exploring what it means to be socially or racially invisible to almost every ad on television including a person of color. Segregated army […]