Our Medical Culture Kills Both Doctors And Patients

Published: April 21, 2021, 11:28 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s time we stopped ignoring the deadly invisible elephant in the room: our dysfunctional and outdated physician culture.\\xa0\\nDr. Pearl\\u2019s\\xa0new book,\\xa0Uncaring: How The Culture Of Medicine Kills Doctors AndPatients, is a MUST-READ. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.\\nFull video with transcript.\\nHere\\u2019s our other show with Robbie where we discussed his prior book,\\xa0Mistreated.\\nDr. Robert Pearl\\xa0is the former\\xa0CEO of The Permanente Medical Group\\xa0(1999-2017), the nation\\u2019s\\xa0largest medical group,\\xa0and\\xa0former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (2009-2017). In these roles he\\xa0led 10,000 physicians,\\xa038,000 staff\\xa0and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care\\xa0of\\xa05 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts.\\nNamed one of\\xa0Modern Healthcare\\u2019s\\xa050 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery.\\nHe serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy.\\nDr. Pearl hosts the popular podcasts\\xa0Fixing Healthcare\\xa0and\\xa0Coronavirus: The Truth.\\xa0He publishes a newsletter with over 12,000 subscribers called\\xa0Monthly Musings on American Healthcare\\xa0and is\\xa0a regular contributor to\\xa0Forbes.\\n\\n\\nVideo show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form:\\xa0https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd\\n\\n\\nSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd\\n\\n\\nMore about Dr. Z:\\xa0https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'