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FHC #44: Diving deep into how we select and pay American doctors

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

02/27/22 • 24 min

Welcome to the new Fixing Healthcare series, “Diving Deep,” which features a robust and probing discussion about some of healthcare’s most deep-seated problems. With cohosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr, this series will be hard-hitting, honest and undoubtedly controversial.

In this episode, Pearl and Corr talk about two areas of medicine where the existing “rules” seem out of date. It begins with an up-close look at how medical schools and residency programs select future doctors, a process that quickly reveals itself as obsolete in the 21st century. That’s followed by an in-depth review of the current (and outdated) rule used to determine how doctors are paid.

For more information on these topics, check out Dr. Pearl’s latest healthcare columns on Forbes and LinkedIn.

For listeners interested in show notes, each episode of this series will feature a time-stamped discussion guide (as follows):

[01:00] Before we dive deep, what are the “unwritten rules” of healthcare?

[02:01] How do these rules impact doctors and patient care?

[03:52] What’s the rule for selecting and training future physicians?

[06:10] Why is this rule now obsolete?

[07:43] How do we break this rule and bring it into the 21st century?

[10:38] Next rule: What’s wrong with paying physicians this way?

[13:27] Diving deeper, how exactly do doctors get paid?

[15:04] Does this payment rule lead to physician burnout?

[17:23] After 90+ years, is it really possible to change the rule?

[21:08] What are the pros of a relationship-based payment model?

[21:58] Can we make docs happier and lower healthcare costs?

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Dr. Robert Pearl is the author of a book about medicine’s invisible yet highly influential physician culture. Check out “Uncaring: How Physician Culture Is Killing Doctors & Patients.” All profits from the book go to Doctors Without Borders.

Fixing Healthcare is a co-production of Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr. Subscribe to the show via Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you find podcasts. Join the conversation or suggest a guest by following the show on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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FHC #59: Diving deep into SCOTUS rulings & drug-industry rules

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07/17/22 • 34 min

This Fixing Healthcare podcast series, “Diving Deep,” probes into some of healthcare’s most complex topics and deep-seated problems.

On today’s episode, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr dive deep into a pair of controversial Supreme Court rulings with serious medical implications. Then they dive into the rules drug companies play by to keep prices and profits sky high.

For more information on these topics, check out Dr. Pearl’s latest healthcare columns on Forbes and LinkedIn. For listeners interested in show notes, here’s a time-stamped discussion guide:

THE SUPREME COURT V. SCIENCE

[00:57] What events inspired Dr. Pearl’s latest Forbes essay “The U.S. Supreme Court Is Unscientific, Medically Negligent?”

[02:09] What are critics saying about the Dobbs and NY gun cases?

[02:47] Did the court really break longstanding precedent in overturning Roe?

[05:40] What are defenders of the Court saying about these decisions?

[06:41] How does Brown v. Board (1954) relate to Pearl’s view that today’s Court is unscientific?

[08:48] Did the recent Dobbs ruling on abortion dismiss important facts?

[09:55] What is “originalism” and how does it affect the current Court’s decisions?

[12:23] In the article, Pearl evokes the Spanish Inquisition. Why?

[14:09] Which scientific facts should the judges have considered in the NY gun case?

[16:26] What’s the relationship between mental health issues and gun violence?

[18:57] What medical consequences will women experience as a result of the recent abortion case?

THE RULES DRUG COMPANIES PLAY BY

[20:20] How do drug companies go about pricing new medications?

[21:14] Why are biopharma companies so profitable?

[21:47] How does the drug industry outpace all other industries in revenue?

[22:33] Do pharma companies need to improve drugs in order to raise prices?

[24:51] How does Big Pharma influence drug policy?

[25:33] How do current U.S. policies boost drug-industry profits?

[27:15] Why don’t lower-priced competitors try to disrupt the drug industry?

[29:43] What can patients do about high drug prices?

[30:23] What three things could Congress do to curb high prices?

[31:51] Doesn’t the drug industry deserve some kudos for the good they do?

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FHC #74: The tangled mess of medicine and politics

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

12/06/22 • 40 min

As a college freshman, Fixing Healthcare cohost Dr. Robert Pearl decided that rather than becoming a university professor as he had planned, he’d go into a field without politics: medicine. He laughs about how naïve he was as a 17-year-old.

“Healthcare is about life and death,” said Pearl, recalling his decision, “How could there be politics entwined inside that esteemed world?” Of course, Pearl soon learned that politics and medicine are a tangled mess.

In this episode of Unfiltered, Pearl and his cohost Jeremy Corr join ZDoggMD to look at the relationship between medicine and politics and if there’s any opportunity for logic to prevail.

To find out, press play or keep reading.

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Jeremy Corr:

Hello, and welcome to Unfiltered, our newest program in our weekly healthcare podcast series. Joining us each month is Dr. Zubin Damania, known to many as ZDoggMD. For 25 minutes, he and Robbie will engage in unscripted and hard-hitting conversation about art, politics, entertainment, and much more. As nationally recognized physicians and healthcare policy experts, they’ll apply the lessons they extract to medical practice, then I’ll pose a question to the two of them based on what I’ve heard. Robbie, why don’t you kick it off?

Robert Pearl:

Hey, Zubin, how was your Thanksgiving?

Zubin Damania:

It was thankful. I really enjoyed it. My wife was on call, which meant we didn’t have to go through the full production of the meal. We went to a half meal, which was absolutely great. I had 70% less bloat and 100% more gratitude. How about you?

Robert Pearl:

I had a great time. I was over at my sisters and had a bunch of folks there. Did you do anything special to communicate your gratitude to others?

Zubin Damania:

I texted a lot of people that I had been a little out of touch with, and just to convey how important they are in my whole life and journey.

Robert Pearl:

Excellent. That sounds great. So I don’t know if I ever told you that I became a doctor to avoid politics.

Zubin Damania:

I didn’t know that.

Robert Pearl:

Yeah. So I was in college. I was a philosophy major, and my hero, who was a philosophy professor, quite an excellent one, he went on to become the chairman at Reed College, didn’t get tenure because of his political views, and I decided then that I wanted to do something that would have no politics. I mean, healthcare is about life and death. How could there be politics entwined inside that esteemed world? And so that’s truly why at the age of 17 I decided that I’d become a doctor, and I learned stuff later on. Any thoughts on that observation, and what we can do to minimize the politics in medicine?

Zubin Damania:

Well, you had me at philosophy major. I don’t remember you... You must have told me that, but that’s impressive. If I could go back in time and do it again, I would do philosophy instead of music and molecular biology, although that’s kind of philosophy in a way. Yeah, politics and medicine have been to some degree dance partners for a long time, but I think right now it actually just reflects how politicized everything is, and how everything is so kind of divided. Although, I’ll say this, Robbie, I’m sensing something in the air, and I might have said this at our last conversation, but I really think something is shifting. I feel like people are starting to wake up to the fact that we are really divided over nothing substantial in the sense that we’re all trying to find truth and goodness, and we just have a slightly different spin on it, and medicine maybe will wake up, but as usual, we’re about a decade or two behind the rest of the culture.

Robert Pearl:

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FHC #80: 3 shocking healthcare stats + 3 beneficial healthcare laws

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01/25/23 • 36 min

Without looking it up, how many Americans do you think are enrolled in Medicaid, the government-funded program that provides health coverage to low-income adults, children and families?

The answer is one of three shocking healthcare statistics you’ll hear about on today’s program.

Welcome back to Diving Deep, the first new episode of the new year. Each month, this show probes some of healthcare’s most complex topics and deep-seated problems.

Today, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr dive into a topic that’s sure to surprise listeners: three shocking healthcare statistics for 2023. But first, the hosts go inside the newly sworn-in Congress to discuss three viable, beneficial healthcare laws that could (actually) pass over the next two years. To end the show, Dr. Pearl weighs in on what leaders can do, starting in 2023, to fix the mess that is American healthcare.

Whether you provide medical care or receive it, you’ll learn much from this conversation. To dive in, press play or peruse the helpful links below.

HELPFUL LINKS

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FHC #92: Diving deep into the future of AI in medicine

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

05/16/23 • 40 min

Since ChatGPT burst onto the tech scene in November 2022, the generative AI application has become one of the hottest topics in the world—and in the world of medicine, especially.

Fixing Healthcare cohost Dr. Robert Pearl is a recognized med-tech leader whose insights and perspectives on generative AI have appeared in USA Today, MSN, Wired, Global News, MedPage Today, Modern Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review and on SiriusXM.

In this episode of ‘Diving Deep,’ Pearl tackles your questions about ChatGPT and its potential uses in medical care. He responds to dozens of listeners who have asked about the safety, security and potential risks of ChatGPT and other generative AI in healthcare.

Among the questions answered on today’s show: Will generative AI be HIPAA compliant and secure? Will it help with home health? How will it impact the doctor-patient relationship? Click play to learn more or check out the various links below for additional information.

HELPFUL LINKS

ChatGPT’s Use In Medicine Raises Questions Of Security, Privacy, Bias (Forbes)
Will Generative AI Wreck Or Rekindle The Doctor-Patient Relationship? (Forbes)
ChatGPT is poised to upend medical information. For better and worse. (USA Today)
ChatGPT Can Help Doctors—and Hurt Patients (WIRED)
How ChatGPT may change the role of physicians (MSN via Global News)

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FHC #93: Zeev Neuwirth on the future of healthcare

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

05/31/23 • 48 min

Dr. Zeev Neuwirth, Clinical Chief of Care Transformation for Atrium Health, returns to the Fixing Healthcare podcast for a tell-all talk about leadership in healthcare: the good, the bad and the nonexistent.

Neuwirth is the author of “Reframing Healthcare” and host of the podcast “Creating A New Healthcare.” His upcoming book “Beyond The Walls: Megatrends, Movements And Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare” will hit bookshelves this fall. It is, in many ways, a collection of insights from the foremost leaders in American medicine.

He joins Dr. Robert Pearl, a longtime healthcare executive and physician leader, and Jeremy Corr, CEO of Executive Podcast Solutions, to share what he has learned about effective leadership and what it will take to lift our nation’s healthcare system “over the wall” of traditional, inefficient, inconvenient and overly in-person medical care.

Helpful links:

Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare (Amazon pre-order)
Creating A New Healthcare (Zeev’s podcast)
Can A Consumer Approach Transform American Medicine? (Psychiatric News)
It’s 2040: How Did U.S. Medicine Become Best In The World? (Forbes)

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Dr. Robert Pearl is the author of a new book about medicine’s invisible yet highly influential physician culture. Check out “Uncaring: How Physician Culture Is Killing Doctors & Patients.”

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FHC #54: The incredible rulebreakers of medicine’s past

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

06/06/22 • 38 min

Author and historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is fascinated with medicine’s grisly past and the extraordinary physicians who changed the profession by breaking the rules.

One of those rule-breaking doctors of yore is the protagonist of her newest book, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (available June 7). In it, Dr. Fitzharris tells the riveting and true tale of Sir Harold Gillies, a pioneering reconstructive and plastic surgeon.

Set against the backdrop of the first World War, the book takes place in a time when military technology was radically outpacing the science of medicine. The machines of war were ravaging human bodies. And so, Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, dedicated his career to picking up the pieces, rebuilding the broken and burned faces of frontline heroes. Along the way, the surgeon didn’t just break the rules of medicine. He rewrote them.

This interview, the first since the book’s publication, pairs Fitzharris with hosts Jeremy Corr and Dr. Robert Pearl—the latter is, himself, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon who has published two highly acclaimed books on medicine.

Interview Highlights

On plastic surgery 100+ years ago

“It wasn’t really until the First World War that there was this huge need suddenly for facial reconstruction. And that had to do with the brutality and savagery of this kind of war. This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster to a society that was largely intolerant of facial differences. So Gillies really filled in there to help these men, and to mend their faces and their broken spirits.”

On advances in war vs. advances in medicine

“[There were] so many advances in weaponry at this time that a company of just 300 men in 1914 could deploy equivalent fire power to a 60,000 strong army during the Napoleonic war. You have the invention of the flame thrower, the invention of tanks. You have chemical warfare at this time. So really the medical community was just playing catch up when all of this began. And there was this huge need to figure out how to mend these broken bodies.”

On what made Gillies unique among his surgical peers

“Harold Gillies, what is extraordinary about him is that he’s a very creative individual. He’s one of those annoying people that’s good at everything he does. He’s a competent artist. He’s a great sportsman. And that creative aspect to his personality served him very well going into reconstructive surgery. He’s also very collaborative. He’s willing to work with other technicians and practitioners at this time.”

On Gillies’ ethical conflict as a wartime doctor

“One of the terrible tensions for Gillies in World War I was the fact that he had a duty to his patients, but he also had a duty to the army. And so, in some instances, I’m sure he would’ve wanted to continue working on the reconstructive process, but perhaps the function had been returned to the face. And the feeling was that the man could be returned back to the trenches. And I think that was a really heartbreaking tension that played out throughout the war for him.”

On staying positive in terrible circumstances

“Gillies’ attitude, this positive attitude, and the way he could look at the humorous side of things, really served him well because he had such a heavy burden on his shoulders. If you imagine the psychological damage as well to these men coming into the hospital, I think he was really able to nurse them in many ways, not just fixing their faces, but he was able to fix their spirits.”

On what connects history’s greatest rulebreakers

“I think that the biggest trait is perseverance. When you look at Joseph Lister, he could have given up quite easily in the face of the pushback because he received enormous pushback when he started to champion germ theory ... And it was a huge leap of faith, but he persevered. Also with Gillies after the war, he could have just given up and gone back to his old practice ... But he really believed that what he was doing was transformative, that it was important, that it would serve humanity beyond the war.”

READ: Full transcript with Lindsey Fitzharris

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FHC #120: Revisiting the hero’s journey with Dr. Zubin Damania (ZDoggMD)

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

01/17/24 • 7 min

This week, cohost Dr. Robert Pearl is on a plastic surgery mission trip to the Philippines where he will be repairing the cleft lips and palates of children. While he’s away, we’re revisiting one of the most popular episodes from 2023 featuring Dr. Zubin Damania, known to many as ZDoggMD.

Zubin Damania is a UCSF- and Stanford-trained internist and founder of Turntable Health, an innovative primary care clinic and model for Health 3.0. As a way to address his own burnout and find his voice, he started producing videos and live shows under the pseudonym “ZDoggMD.” His persona became a grassroots movement, reaching more than 1 billion people across a wide array of different media.

In this episode, Drs. Pearl and Z discuss the hero’s journey in healthcare. The concept of the “hero’s journey” was popularized by the American writer Joseph Cambell, and it applies aptly to American healthcare. In every medical professional’s career, there is a calling, a fear of failure and people along the way who provide support (or pose additional challenges). Listen to find who are healthcare’s heroes today, what are the dragons that need slaying, how doctors will overcome their fear of failure and what journeys still lie ahead.

For more, press play.

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MTT #77: Is the ‘tripledemic’ returning? Will new vaccines help?

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10/11/23 • 31 min

Last year, around this time, the CDC alerted physicians about the triple threat of Covid-19, seasonal influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). The result was one of the worst flu seasons in more than a decade.

In today’s episode of Medicine: The Truth, podcast cohost Dr. Robert Pearl discusses the return of the “triple-demic” this winter and what listeners should do about it.

According to forecasts, researchers expect a total of 1.15 million hospitalizations from these three viruses. How do those numbers stack up against last year? And will the newest vaccines prove more or less efficacious?

Also featured on today’s program:

Data on the new vaccine and its efficacy against the newer variants
The surprising reason Americans won’t get the new shot
Why the CDC is recommending this antibiotic after unprotected sex
The reason healthcare costs will rise 6.5% in 2024
How health benefits affect entrepreneurship, employee wages and prices
An unexpected development in government negotiations of drug prices
The return of the free Covid-19 testing kit program
Results of a genetically engineered pig heart transplant
Why innovative medical researchers struggle to get due recognition
KP’s massive labor strike and the reasons behind it
A new entrant among the retail giants trying to disrupt healthcare

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#7: Is it time to get back to work?

Fixing Healthcare Podcast

04/27/20 • 35 min

Dr. Robert Pearl, co-host of this show, struck a chord this week with his most recent Forbes column, “3 Coronavirus Facts Americans Must Know Before Returning To Work,” which quickly shot to No. 1 on the site’s “most popular” list, garnering more than 1 million views.

His article offers a full-throated plea for politicians, business owners and workers to embrace the facts surrounding COVID-19 so that we can understand what will happen when our nation eases social-distancing restrictions.

This episode examines the latest plans to reopen the country and the health implications of getting Americans back to work. In episode 7 of ‘Coronavirus: The Truth,’ Dr. Pearl and Jeremy Corr discuss these pressing questions:

[00:53] What are the most important COVID-19 updates?

[01:52] Why are nursing homes so disproportionately affected by the virus?

[04:04] In what way is U.S. healthcare still vulnerable in the fight against COVID-19?

[05:53] Has anyone pitched a viable strategy available to end the pandemic?

[09:06] Does Congress have plan to revive the economy and keep us safe?

[11:26] VP Pence said the U.S. is prepared for a second wave. Are we?

[12:21] What should Americans know and do before returning to work?

[16:44] Who was the first COVID-19 fatality in the U.S. and what can she teach us?

[18:52] With 43% of small businesses closed, how long can owners stay afloat?

[21:28] Can public surveillance keep Americans safe from another outbreak?

[23:39] What painful economic truths await us in the months ahead?

[26:36] What healthcare improvements can we expect, post-pandemic?

[28:15] Are people immune from future infection once recovered from COVID-19?

[30:42] What has surprised physicians about the coronavirus?

This episode is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and other podcast platforms. To submit a question or comment to the hosts, visit the contact page or send a message on Twitter or LinkedIn.

*To ensure the credibility of this program, Coronavirus: The Truth refuses to accept sponsorship, outside funding sources or guests with any financial or personal conflicts of interest.

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