The Paradocs Podcast with Eric Larson

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Episode 126: How the Medical Boards are Fleecing America's Doctors with Chuck Kroll May 01, 2021

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Today's episode strikes right to the heart of the reason I started this podcast - the injustice of maintenance of certification. If you're a doctor, you know all about the unfairness of this system which requires more money, paperwork, money, testing, money, time away from patients and families, and money. It contributes to physician burnout. For patients, it is why your doctor might retire early, look stressed out, or be unavailable when you need him or her most.

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Episode 125: Value Based Care Provides Neither Value Nor Care with Dr. Eric Bricker Apr 22, 2021

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Health care, according to today's guest Dr. Eric Bricker, is filled with euphemisms. One you hear a lot is value based care. The claim is that we need to restructure insurance plans to reward health systems that provide care focused on outcomes instead of activity. Conceptually, it makes a lot of sense that you would reward the people providing superior outcomes with better pay. Unfortunately, this scheme has been tried before and failed. It's unlikely the outcome will be any different this time around.

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Episode 124: What Was Life with Small Pox Like in the Revolutionary War with Michael Troy. Apr 16, 2021

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Today, we depart from our pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 to discuss what was easily the number one killer of colonial Americans in the Revolutionary War - infectious disease. It is estimated that battle casualties totaled 5-6,000 while disease (infections like small pox and the like) killed between 40-50,000. The toll paid by the civilian population was even worse as loose estimates put the death toll at 100,000 from infection.

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Episode 123: Vaccine Passports are a Dumb and Dangerous Idea Apr 11, 2021

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Advocates for vaccine passports are multiplying by the day. But rest assured, this a bad idea. Not only will they be impractical, they will be useless in a few short months before the passports could really be developed and adopted. In the show, I will lay out the case for passports and then explain why they are bad idea from a practical and civil liberty perspective.

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Episode 122: Out of Network? No Problem. Reimbursify to the Rescue. Apr 01, 2021

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My guest today is Dr. Vatsal Thakkar who developed an app to take away the pain for patients and health care professionals trying to file out of network insurance claims. Lots of care is provided outside of insurance contracts which requires people unfamiliar filling out insurance paperwork to do so. Thakkar created Reimbursify which does all the filing automatically and eliminating a huge pain point for these practices and their patients.

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Episode 121: COVID Variants on the Way? Mar 27, 2021

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There is so much evidence right now that shows that the virus spreads and bursts into regional epidemics independent of local measures to contain it. This doesn't mean that masks do not work for individuals to prevent infection or protect others. However, it is pretty clear that laws don't affect much in the spread of the virus. Comparing states to one another shows that there is little difference in the extent of outbreaks based on their policies - but more dependent on where the state is located.

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Episode 120: Mistrust in Medicine Due to Colonialism in Central Africa with Dr. Sara Lowes Mar 18, 2021

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Trust is essential in medicine. Not only between a doctor and patient but between a community and the health care system. A unique difference between the United States and Africa is the relative recency of colonial powers controlling the country. Our colonial past is distant dating back to the 1700s. For Africa, it's as recent as the late 20th century. But how does history of recent colonialism affect current attitudes towards medicine?

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Episode 119: Eggplants and Aquaculture with Dann Reid Mar 11, 2021

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Today is a departure from a direct discussion of the medicine or the US medical system. We delve into food. Food, is medicine in a way since it has physiological effects on how our bodies function. Finally, what's the deal with eggplants? If the food is locally sourced it has many inherent advantages like improved 'ripeness' at harvesting, decreased transit time and chance to spoil, and it supports a local food network.

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Episode 118: Navigating Marriage in Medicine with Dr. Kate Mangona Mar 04, 2021

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One thing few outside of medicine realize are the unique challenges doctors face in their personal relationships. Marriage can especially difficult due to the unique responsibilities and expectations placed on doctors with work. Unusual hours, call, and administrative work that can find its way into the home is stress that can strain any relationship if the couple isn't careful.

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Episode 117: Birthing a Business with Hysterectomies with Dr. Richard Rosenfield Feb 25, 2021

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Entrepreneurs are funny creatures. Some seem to be born to innovate and create businesses. Others, like today's guest, create new businesses out of necessity because they can't find a system that works for them. Dr. Rick Rosenfield is an OB/GYN who enjoys gynecological surgery. He didn't feel that he could do that in his first job with a large health system so he struck out on his own and started doing something no one else had thought to do - outpatient laparoscopic hysterectomies.

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