The Doctor's Lounge

The Doctor's Lounge

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The Doctor's Lounge episodes

  • 07/20/17 Topic: UK Baby Update & Senate Health Reform
    Host Mike Koriwchak, M.D. tackles the latest news in this episode of Doctor's Lounge. Expect updates on the plight of Charlie Gard, an 11 month old UK baby with infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS). The UK NHS (socialized medicine) denied Charlie experimental treatment outside the country at the parent's expense. The NHS revisited in light of the public outcry and a USA pediatrician has traveled England to evaluate the case. The Senate debacle on health care reform is still unfolding and Dr. Mike will analyze the latest turn of events.
    1 hr
  • 07/13/17 Guest Attorney Jim Manley - CON
    Jim Manley, senior attorney of the Goldwater Institute, is leading the fight in court to declare CON laws unconstitutional and steps into the Doctor's Lounge to brief us on oral arguments made on June 26 at the Georgia Supreme Court.
    59 min
  • 07/06/17 Topic: Myth-Busting! Single Payor Mortality to CMS Punishment
    Part One - Single Payor Morality
    Social media has been on fire with the story of Charlie Gard, an 11 month old UK baby with infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS). President Trump and the Pope offered support for free experimental nucleoside therapy in the face of the socialized British NHS deciding to pull life support. Dr. Koriwchak does analysis and connects the dots to the philosophical debate laid bare in the Cruz/Sanders CNN debate he attended several months ago.
    1 hr 36 min
  • 06/29/17 Guest Dr. Ori Hampel, M.D.
    Join Dr. Hal Scherz and D4PCF National Board Member Ori Hampel, M.D. steps into the Doctor's Lounge to discuss the back story of the legislation, the process to passage, and give some insight to expanding the reform to other States on Maintenance of Certification.
    1 hr
  • 06/22/17 Topic: The Best of the Con
    Leaders from across the nation (one as far as Alaska) descended on Washington D.C. to discuss one of the biggest, yet unknown cost drivers and inhibitors of care - Certificate of Need (CON) Laws
    58 min
  • 06/15/17 Guest Matthew D. Mitchell
    Matthew D. Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Project for the Study of American Capitalism at the Mercatus Center steps into the Doctor's Lounge to brief us on the impact and results of Certificate of Need Laws throughout the many states
    59 min
  • 05/25/17 Guest Sally Pipes
    Our upward trajectory accelerates with the addition of Sally Pipes to the Advisory Board of the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation.
    Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Foundation, steps into the Doctor's Lounge to inaugurate her joining the board and discuss the state of health care today.
    57 min
  • 05/18/17 Guest Wayne Oliver
    Join host Dr. Hal Scherz, M.D. and his guest Mr. Wayne Oliver Executive Director of Patients for Fair Compensation and they discuss a new proposal that could eliminate the need for malpractice suits. Interesting show, listen and learn!
    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.