Through the years, I’ve skilled many issues as a healthcare client which have made me wish to rip my hair out (or set free a visceral scream). As a journalist, too, many a time I’ve engaged in annoyed head-shaking.
And but once I go searching on the form of commentary there may be on the market about our healthcare trade — aside from astute items of reporting from time to time about some injustice right here or there — it’s largely self-congratulatory.
“We’re essentially the most modern technology in healthcare bringing about revolutionary adjustments.” (okay nobody mentioned that)
I’m simplifying right here, however you get the gist — it’s a whole lot of completely satisfied discuss.
Actually, my associate in crime, MedCity Information’ writer, Ken Montgomery, felt this so deeply that late final yr he inspired me to do an ongoing collection that would offer the mandatory dose of skepticism in a world rife with fawning over the following innovation and gargantuan fundraises.
Ken introduced Samir Batra into my sphere in December. Batra, founder and managing associate of HIP (Well being Innovation Pitch) was equally delay by the countless parade of podcasts highlighting innovation on the market. After I found that he lived 6 minutes away from my dwelling within the Bay Space, there was no cause to not do a present within the flesh sans Zoom. (not knocking Zoom, we might use it but.)
Thus Debunked: Slaughtering Myths, Unhealthy Practices and Sacred Cows in Healthcare was born.
What are we going to present our viewers that they aren’t getting anyplace else? Right here’s Batra’s reply to that on the present:
“Properly, all people else has a whole lot of fluff. It’s good to have fun successes and milestones and raises and all that stuff, however there’s no onerous questions. There’s no ying to the yang. It’s simply all about, oh, yay. Good job, nice job. You raised debt. In the event you actually give it some thought, while you elevate capital, nice job. You simply added extra debt to your desk. What are you going to do with it? What’s form of the great and the dangerous about it? So I feel I wish to get away from the fluff. I’m bored with the fluff. Possibly there’s others which can be bored with the fluff, so let’s carry them nonfluff. How about that?”
That is our inaugural episode and we hope to publish a present month-to-month. On this episode we focus on: shameful billing practices associated to my foot damage, FDA permitting Florida to import medication from Canada and drug pricing general, our experiences at J.P. Morgan and naturally the information out of Common Catalyst that it’s shopping for Summa Well being, a nonprofit well being system in Ohio.
Corporations and folks named within the present are (so as of look): Golden State Orthopedics & Backbone, Dr. Nicholas Abidi, Past Prosthetics, J.P. Morgan, Common Catalyst, Summa Well being, Hemant Taneja, Marc Harrison, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway.
Please write to us at debunked@medcitynews.com with details about dangerous practices we should always learn about, fascinating information and scoops, whether or not you favored (or disliked) our present and why. We’d recognize any suggestions which may assist us on this journey to constructively criticize — albeit with an irreverent tone — the healthcare trade. The purpose isn’t gotta journalism however eye-opening conversations that can hopefully encourage/disgrace individuals to make adjustments with a purpose of constructing healthcare work higher for individuals.
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Insightful piece
Insightful piece
Excellent write-up