17 episodes
43cc Wendy Dean, MD and Matthew Ramsey, MD
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- Health & Fitness
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4.8 • 20 Ratings
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The Truth About Healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain).
Doctors are frustrated. Patients are frustrated. And none of us can get a straight answer on how to make it better … like, really make it better … honestly, we really need to make it better … because it could drive you to drink . . .
Cue 43cc.
A bi-weekly podcast that exposes how doctors really feel about healthcare in America, 43cc offers raw (and often irreverent) insider knowledge to help patients, and fellow healthcare practitioners, look 'behind the curtain'. Through exposing some hard truths (while imbibing some not-so-soft drinks) 43cc aims to break the stigma, fill gaps, and lower frustration levels for patients and providers. Hosts Wendy Dean, MD and Matt Ramsey, MD bring together decades of knowledge, experience, and an uncanny ability to mesh intricate medical expertise with skillfully used profanity.
We’ll uncover a wide range of topics like electronic medical records, prior authorization, consolidation, corporatization, bureaucratic bs, shareholder primacy, private equity, and other nonsense that makes our heads hurt and our patients suffer.
Dr. Wendy Dean practiced emergency medicine and psychiatry, was instrumental in developing the US Army’s hand and face transplant research program, and was an executive in a half-billion dollar nonprofit. She gave that all up when the challenges of getting high quality healthcare nearly cost her physician husband his life. She is now the leading voice for reframing health worker distress to include moral injury, and is the author of, If I Betray These Words.
Dr. Matt Ramsey is a board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in shoulder & elbow conditions. He has a passion for patient care, education of the next generation of physicians and research. An extensive number of publications and invitational lectures solidify Dr. Ramsey as a key physician among his medical peers. Dr. Ramsey is an advocate for physician leadership in healthcare and believes that the solutions for the current issues in healthcare will emerge out of a partnership of patients and their providers.
Join us for a drink, a rant, a laugh, and an open forum on solutions to healthcare’s most pressing problems.
The 43cc Podcast is produced by Jill Ruby.
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A Profession in Peril?
What do we lose, as physicians and as patients, when society no longer treats medicine as a profession? What are the moral, ethical, and practical consequences of treating healthcare practitioners as shift workers? Matt and Wendy dive into a deep, and at times emotional, conversation about what it means to be a medical professional.
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“Locusts”?: A Lawyer Talks Private Equity in Healthcare
Why is private equity trying to take over healthcare? And what does the law have to say about it? Erin C. Fuse Brown, an expert on private-equity investment in healthcare and Professor of Health Services, Policy & Management at Brown University, joins us to talk about the official - and unofficial - corporate practice of medicine from a legal perspective.
Have a rant of your own on this topic? The FTC wants to hear it! Send in your comments at: Request for Information on Consolidation in Health Care Markets
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The End of Noncompetes?
Thirty million Americans are bound by noncompetes... or are they? A new FTC ruling signals a seismic shift in favor of physicians and patients, and we're all for it. Matt and Wendy break down all 500 pages of what banning noncompetes could mean for healthcare, and the contractual language doctors still need to look out for buried in the fine print.
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We Need To Talk About Steward
A massive health system in the Northeast on the brink of collapse, private equity waiting (hiding?) in the wings, and hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of losing care? We need to talk about Steward Health.
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Private Equity's Plan to Pillage Healthcare
To put it bluntly, private equity is laundering their greed through the good will of healthcare. Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and author of "Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America", joins us to talk about how PE has taken over healthcare, and what we can do about it.
Have a story to share? Tell the FTC.
The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services launced a cross-government inquiry on the impact of corporate greed in health care.
They want to hear from you.
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Meet the Glaucomfleckens
What happens when "Feelings Bro" and "A Guy Who's Good At Science and Can Lift 300lbs Directly Over His Head" meets Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken? Laughs, of course, but also a deadly serious conversation about how to use humor and insight not just to entertain, but to mobilize change in the US healthcare system.
Customer Reviews
Validating
For all us docs silently screaming bc we are too afraid to speak up, this podcast gives a credible voice to the crisis within American health(no)care. Wendy and Matt approach difficult topics with humility, humor, and humanity. I applaud their candor and willingness to fight for this most important cause. They give me hope.
Poignant
Wendy and Matt are touching upon topics that everyone in health care talk about among their colleagues daily but may be too taboo to touch upon beyond their inner circle. Kudos to putting this out to the masses. Hopefully it leads to the changes so desperately needed.
Smart, Sharp, and Honest
Drs. Dean and Ramsey bring years of medical experience, critical minds and deep dedication to patients to this discussion of what’s really happening in healthcare and how to make things better for patients and those who care for them. They speak with courage and call on listeners to respond. Plus, there’s whisky, swearing, and lots of laughter! A much-needed look into a system that affects us all.