Microdosing

Paul Schrimpf

Microdosing delivers short, fact-driven reports that distill today’s trending healthcare topics, and add fresh perspectives that are grounded in expert insights and credible sources. For written reports and bibliographies, please visit www.md-pod.com.

  1. JAN 6

    Building a Better Backbone and the Role of Primary Care in the US

    The US healthcare system is privatized and built around a capitalist model. Within that framework, one flaw stands out: unlike nearly every other high-performing health system in the world, the United States lacks a true backbone. There is no layer that reliably guides people, connects decisions over time, or helps them confidently take the next step. The solution is the backbone it never built, and that backbone is primary care.

    8 min

  2. 12/23/2025

    Workforce Reconfiguration, Not Workforce Shortage; It’s not people and patient ratios, it’s the care model and sub-models themselves

    Healthcare does not lack workers; it lacks a work model capable of supporting them. Modern care assumed infinite elasticity from clinicians, but that model has reached its limit. What comes next is not incremental change; it is reconfiguration: team-based, patient-centered, digitally enabled, and economically aligned with value. When the work is redesigned, the workforce stabilizes. This necessary reconfiguration is not a trend; it is an inescapable reality.

    8 min

  3. 12/18/2025

    The Naming Maze; How Getting Lost in Healthcare Taxonomy and Wayfinding Costs Millions

    The complexity of the U.S. healthcare system is magnified by inconsistent, fragmented naming of care locations. Terms such as hospital, medical center, and institute may appear interchangeable, but in practice they introduce confusion, increase the risk of surprise billing, and fuel costly administrative errors.

    12 min

  4. 12/02/2025

    Where Journeys Collide; Designing Beyond a Single Healthcare Experience Map

    Every healthcare organization operates within a web ofoverlapping experience maps, including clinical, administrative, payer, patient, and policy maps. These maps shape every decision, workflow, and outcome. In healthcare, a customer experience (CX) map traces the steps, systems, and emotions that patients, clinicians, and staff move through as care is delivered and supported. Each map makes sense on its own, but the real complexity begins where they overlap. Most improvement efforts focus on a single map, yet few consider how these maps interact or depend on one another.

    12 min

  5. 11/29/2025

    The Monster in the Middle; Why Prior Authorization Wrecks the Patient Experience, and Why Everyone’s Trying to Tame It

    Every industry has a process that looks small on paper butshapes everything around it. In healthcare, that process is priorauthorization. It is the quiet monster that hides between doctors, payers, and patients, invisible to most until it strikes. When it does, it does not just delay care; it unravels trust, burns out staff, and corrodes the very idea of a coordinated patient journey.

    11 min

  6. 11/18/2025

    The Decentralizing of the Hospital Cafeteria; Why food service is the next frontier of healthcare innovation

    Hospitals were once the epicenter of healthcare food service. One kitchen fed thousands, one cafeteria served everyone from physicians to visitors, and one model defined the experience. That era is ending. As care moves beyond the hospital walls into outpatient clinics, ambulatory centers, imaging hubs, and patients’ homes, food service needs to move with it. What once was a static operation is becoming a dynamic, distributed network designed to keep up with an always-on health system.

    11 min

  7. 11/04/2025

    The Quiet Rebellion; How Small Medical Practices Are Beating the Odds and Finding Margin in the Chaos

    For years, the story of American healthcare has read like an obituary for small, independent medical practices. Faced with shrinking reimbursements, staffing shortages, and rising administrative burden, many physicians traded autonomy for stability, selling to health systems or private equity. Yet beneath the consolidation headlines, a quiet rebellion is taking shape. Across the country, small specialty and multi-site practices are not only surviving but posting strong margins. They’re lean, tech-forward, and operationally disciplined, proving that small can be powerful when run like a high-performing business.

    11 min

  8. 10/28/2025

    Medication Management and the Myth of Patient Empowerment

    All around you, Healthcare leadership continues to lean on familiar solutions: more education, more empowerment, more reminders to improve adherence. It sounds polite,nonthreatening, and promising. But it’s also a comfortable excuse that obscures a deeper, systemic failure. Because the truth is: medication adherence—our most basic measure of patient engagement—remains stubbornly low. Despite decades of well-meaning interventions, the problem persists. This isn’t a patient failure. It’s a system failure.

    11 min
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Microdosing delivers short, fact-driven reports that distill today’s trending healthcare topics, and add fresh perspectives that are grounded in expert insights and credible sources. For written reports and bibliographies, please visit www.md-pod.com.

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  • Creator
    Paul Schrimpf
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    128
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Paul Schrimpf
  • Show Website
    Microdosing