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Director of Vascular Medicine; Co-Director, Saint Luke's Hospital Vascular Center; Director, Saint Luke's PAD Center of Excellence; Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Associate Prof of Medicine - Univ of MO - KC
To my physician friends, To those seeing it all financialized to a fault To those feeling commoditized like cattle in a pen To those struggling with the moral injury of contemporary US healthcare To those finding exceptionalism being snuffed in the spirit of “operational efficiency” To those watching healthcare regress to the mean To those wanting more in their career To those that know their worth Instead of doom-scrolling today, take 45 min to watch the webinar below. Get to know Dutch Rojas, Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA, Keith Smith, Preston Alexander, Dave Chase, Health Rosetta-discovering archaeologist, Ge Bai, Stacey Richter, Eric Bricker, MD, and work of the late Marshall Allen. They'll introduce you to others. As an allegory, US healthcare has been languishing in the ICU, succumbing to shock. Despite the ECMO, the lactate continues to rise. There is no clear exit strategy or bridge to resolve the circumstance. Meanwhile, the team is exhausted and demoralized, the expense is incomprehensible, and I think I overheard someone at the nurse’s station asking about accommodations for the anointing of oil. We just had an election. Get to know your new representative. Make time to get involved. For the betterment of your career, for those professionals to come after you, your patients, and your community. Today I signed up in support of Physician-Led Healthcare for America. Let’s connect.