Episodes

Have you ever spent hours, days or weeks trying to get money back from a health insurance claim? If you have, this episode will let you know that you're not alone. If you haven't, this will give you some insight into the process. This week's episode is just me, letting you in on an insane claim fiasco that I'm going through with my health insurance company. The claim is for about $108, and at another time in my life I might just give up on trying to get that money back because of all of the road...

Date: 3/25/24 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 12 Bosom Buddies Episode summary: Today's episode is a fly-on-the-wall perspective for you of how friends talk about cancer. A couple of my friends and I all had cancer within a couple of years of each other, and this is a full-length, unedited conversation that we had about it last year. Warning there's some foul language and tough discussions. Guest(s): Laura and Melissa Key Terms: portacath [15:04] - a device that is plac...

Season 2 is coming soon! During this break I’ve been spending more and more time on the healthcare of my friends and family lately. I continue to act as a doctor friend to whomever needs it, helping guide people through the healthcare landscape to get done what they need, whether it’s finding a doctor, figuring out how to actually have a phone conversation with your doctor, getting an urgent appointment, or getting a second opinion on a diagnosis. Hopefully by telling some of these stories this ...

Date: 7/19/22 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 11 How We Learn to Be a Patient Episode summary: My daughter had an encounter at a doctor's office recently, which was her first time going for a health visit by herself. What ensued was confusion and hilarity. It got me thinking that I haven't really prepared my kids to be the kind of patient that I think people need to be today: self advocating, informed, comfortable asking questions.

A rundown of who's who in hospital, ER and clinic settings. It can be really confusing to be a patient and not know what each person's role is when you're receiving health care.

Date: 6/13/22 Name of podcast: Dr. Patient Episode title and number: 10 Pushback, Part 2 Episode summary: How did we get to where we are today, where health insurance companies dictate how medicine should be practiced between a doctor and their patient? This episode reviews the origins of Medicare, and reviews Medicare For All as an alternative to the over-privatization of current Medicare plans. This is yet another way that physicians (and patients) can pushback on a dysfunctional system. Gue...

Hear stories of a couple of doctors that are pushing back on a dysfunctional system by upending their practice model.

"Mistakes happen" - an old saying but total reality. And medicine is no different - doctors are human, and medical care is complicated. Some errors are tiny, some go unnoticed, but today's stories are about both the ultimate price paid for a medical error, and the ripple effects that they have beyond the doctor-patient encounter.

Doctor burnout, caused by moral injury, is on the rise just as a looming doctor shortage and rising aging population is on our doorstep. But there is help to be had, if you take time out of your busy day to go looking for it.

House calls, no insurance woes, time with the patient - these are beginning to be only a thing of the past with doctors and patients. Let's examine where we've come from.

There are doctors who will, on occasion, take the time to go so far above and beyond the expected call of their duty to help patients out that it's worth hearing their stories.

What happens when the doctor has to take off the stethoscope and lie down in the hospital bed? You’ll hear 3 stories today: A pediatrician hospitalist whose own child is in the hospital, a provider that does telehealth with her clients all the time but stumbles through her own telehealth appointment, and me talking about what exactly is so hard about being a doctor-patient.

Tips on how to get the most out of your visit with a doctor or healthcare provider.

Hear Grace Lombardo’s stories about a role-reversal in the hospital, the blog that she maintains to share about her experiences, and how she got one doctor to think twice about how she practices medicine.

Hear what a typical full-time doctor's day is like, from 4am to 8pm. If you're a doctor, you can relate. If you're a patient, this might give you new found awareness of what's happening on the other side of the bed.

Ever been a patient? Ever been in the hospital? It's hard to understand what it's like until you've been there. In this first episode, I talk about my early-in-life experiences as a chronic patient, and how they shaped me into the doctor-patient that I am today.

Welcome to Dr. Patient podcast, where I examine the doctor-patient relationship and all that it entails. Episodes coming up feature both patients and doctors, telling their stories about a day in their life, finding humanity in the hospital, doctors that go above and beyond, and more. www.drpatientpodcast.com