43cc

One year, 30+ episodes, thousands of downloads, dozens of guests, and countless f-bombs. We're celebrating our first anniversary in this special episode addressing listener emails, reviewing some of the most popular episodes in year one, and toasting the best part of our show: you.

The 2024 election is over. Navigating the results has just begun. Our advice? Ski the gaps.

To learn more about some of the ideas mentioned in this episode, check out Jennifer Pahlka on Substack, and Ezra Klein in the New York Times.

Are our "free markets" truly free? How can we achieve a balanced healthcare economy when we privatize profits but socialize losses? Andrew Leigh, member of the Australian House of Representatives and professor of economics at Australian National University, joins us to talk about how "economics can be defined as a social science that studies how people maximize their well-being in the face of scarcity", and how that applies to healthcare.

We're bringing you into the 'room where it happens' and broadcasting a panel discussion that we recorded live at the PHA leadership conference in Naples, Florida last month. Moderated by Dutch Rojas, speakers Mike Lipomi and our own Wendy Dean led a rousing conversation on what physician-led healthcare means, and what doctors and patients lose when we don't have control over care.

Successfully operating an independent hospital in a sea of large hospital systems is no easy task. How do you maintain negotiating power? How do you retain staff? How do you keep private equity at bay? Kurt Barwis, President and CEO of Bristol Health in Bristol, CT, joins us to talk about how to stand out - and stand up - for his hospital's independence, and his community.

Right now, too many of us feel helpless to change the healthcare and insurance systems. Patients feel powerless, and physicians feel betrayed. But one proven way to instigate change is to create and facilitate the structures needed to help physicians become, and stay, independent from the corporate practice of medicine.

Recorded outside (and partially in the rain) in front of a live audience at the Physician-Led Healthcare Summit in Naples, Florida, hosts Wendy Dean, MD and Matt Ramsey, MD, along with members of the audience, explore how physicians can become, and remain independent - to the benefit of themselves, and their patients - and explore what doctors and patients lose when we don't have control over care.

A bi-weekly podcast that exposes how doctors really feel about healthcare in America, 43cc offers raw (and often irreverent) insider knowledge and commentary on current events in news and politics to help patients, and fellow healthcare practitioners, look 'behind the curtain', break the stigma, and lower frustration levels for patients and providers.

To be a part of something bigger than yourself is one of life's greatest gifts, and when the daily acts of life and work are challenged by love and loss it's the community that we've build around ourselves that gets us through.

43cc is proud to share this "Turn on the Lights" episode focused on how can health care organizations align their values to support both high-quality patient care and the well-being of their staff. Wendy Dean, MD, Eileen Barrett, MD, and J. Corey Feist, Esq., bring personal stories and professional insights on the rise of moral injury, systemic challenges, and legislative efforts to make meaningful changes. To listen to the full series, visit Turn On the Lights.

Dr. Don Berwick brings decades of healthcare leadership to a conversation with Matt and Wendy about the effect of social, moral, and structural determinants of health on the physician experience. He offers a welcome reminder of the essential good at the heart of our profession and implores us to work together for the change we wish to see.

AI in medicine is here to stay. But do we like it? In the first of many episodes to come on this topic, Wendy and Matt discuss AI's growing influence in healthcare, and ask, "Does AI help or hurt the patient/physician experience, and what can we do about it either way?"