Two Surgeons Explain Why U.S. Healthcare Is So Broken And Can't Be Reformed From Inside, from Wendy Dean's 43cc Podcast
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Dr. Graham Walker interviews Dr. Wendy Dean about the challenges and systemic issues within the U.S. healthcare system.
A few weeks ago, Graham sat down with Dr. Wendy Dean , co-founder of Moral Injury in Healthcare, for one of his favorite conversations this show has ever recorded. It's the kind of episode that changes how you talk about your own job. That's why this week, How I Doctor is doing something new: handing the feed over to Wendy's own show, 43cc , which she co-hosts with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Matt Ramsey. 43cc bills itself as informal, informative, and irreverent, and if this episode is representative, that's undersold. It's the conversation you'd have with a colleague after a brutal clinic day, if you let yourself say the quiet part out loud. In this episode, Wendy and Matt start from a real patient encounter, a $3,100 out-of-pocket shoulder MRI on a $6,500 deductible, and use it to walk through exactly how the system got this expensive and this hard to fix from the inside. They don't stop at diagnosing the problem. They name the specific legislative mechanism (a provision buried in the Affordable Care Act) that keeps physicians from building an alternative, and the bills currently in Congress trying to undo it. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why one patient's $3,100 out of…
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