The Doctor's Lounge

The Doctor's Lounge

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The Doctor's Lounge episodes

  • 07/15/21 Vision for Future - D4PCF Leadership Discuss Path Ahead
    D4PCF President Lee Gross steps into the Doctor's Lounge to discuss with host Dr. Hal Scherz how the past years of labor helped shape the national and state level agendas in several areas of health care.


    From taking the Direct Primary Care practice model to the White House though fighting state by state to repeal Certificate of Need, the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation has made nation shaping impact in less than 10 years.


    We remain in the thick of these issues to make positive impact for healthcare and patients when the political landscape improves while upping our ground game to deliver patient care in innovative models of medicine at the local level.
    1 hr
  • 06/03/21 Broken Health Care System
    The Why is in What We Believe
    Healthcare is broken and Surgeon Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins steps into the Doctor's Lounge Radio Show to discuss why.
    Makary is an advocate for disruptive innovation in medicine and was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by Health magazine. In 2018, Makary was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

    Makary is a regular commentator on national media and made waves earlier this year predicting COVID-19 would achieve herd immunity around April 2021.

    He is the author of "The Price We Pay" examining what broke healthcare and how to fix it.
    59 min
  • 04/08/21 Stealth Takeover - Popular Policies Don't Require Secrecy
    The break neck pace of new Presidential Executive Orders is turning toward health care.
    Congress is pulling out long planned legislation and slipping it in omnibus packages with thousands of pages that can't possibly be properly vetted let along read and studied.

    Beware the of stealth takeover of healthcare - it is happening right before our eyes.

    Host Dr. Hal Scherz unpacks the policies that are hidden in plan site.
    58 min

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Dr. Hal ScherzHal C. Scherz MD has been practicing pediatric urology for 23 years. He has been in private practice in San Diego, California and in Atlanta, Georgia and has been on the faculty of the University of California- San Diego and Emory University. He has been involved in resident and fellow training for all of his career, and has published over 75 peer reviewed articles and contributed chapters to 6 academic texts. He has been a reviewer for over 20 years for the major peer reviewed journals in Urology, has been a primary investigator in numerous clinical research projects and been invited to be a visiting professor in a number of institutions. Dr. Scherz is a former president of the American Association of Pediatric Urologists.Dr. Scherz has been the chief of Pediatric Urology and Managing Partner of Georgia Pediatric Urology since 1994. He has served on the boards of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Ambulatory Surgery Center, The Children's Helthcare Network, and Georgia Pediatric Subspecialists. He currently is involved in the exploratory committee to organize a city wide Pediatric ACO in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Scherz has been the Medicaid reviewer for Pediatric Urology since 1996. He has been named as one of the top physicians by Atlanta Magazine, every year since 2005. In May of 2009, Dr. Scherz founded the physician group, Docs 4 Patient Care, which has subsequently become one of the most prominent physician groups in championing sensible healthcare reform. He was a featured speaker on a healthcare panel at CPAC in 2010. He has had 2 Wall Street Journal opinion pieces published in 2010 and others featured in Real Clear Politics and other online publications. He has appeared on over 50 nationally syndicated radio shows and on Fox News shows.