The Doctor's Lounge

The Doctor's Lounge

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The Doctor's Lounge episodes

  • 05/04/17 Guest Renown Investor-Philanthropist Foster Friess
    Renown Investor-Philanthropist Foster Friess steps into the Doctor's Lounge after raising the bar in the heath care debate with a recent Washington Times Opinion Editorial. As Congress reverses the order of the promised "Repeal and Replace", Friess challenges us all to build a consensus bill that melds transcendent truths with free market principles.Friess is an unapologetic Christian that brings the principles of the civil society to bear on public policy resulting in a compelling case for "being my brother's keeper" in the context of the free market and personal responsibility.
    58 min
  • 04/27/17 Topic: Health Care News
    Hal Scherz, regular host of the Doctor's Lounge, is gearing up for a fast review of health care news.A variety of stories are in the pipeline for the show, but breaking at this hour - new life breathed into the Republican health care reform.
    59 min
  • 04/20/17 Topic: Crypto-currency tech moving to Health IT
    Host Michael Koriwchak, M.D., our in house Health IT guru will unpack the complexities and comment on the problems and possibilities ahead. Bitcoin, the digital currency, rose to prominence from it's start in 2009 built upon Blockchain encryption and records keeping technology.Instead of a database that is centrally located and maintains the records (be they currency or health records), blockchain shares the data among a network of computers allowing users to add transactions (or information blocks) to the chain.The information is kept secure through cryptography and distribution over a wide array of computers. The implications of a decentralized network maintaining records and overcoming the ongoing challenges of interoperability have excited a flurry of articles and papers over the past six months.
    57 min
  • 04/13/17 Topic: Prostate Standards Revised
    Host Hal Scherz, M.D. returns to the Doctor's Lounge to discuss the new standards rolling out in the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Staging Manual. Recommendations for prostate testing as well as mammograms have been swinging back and forth with perhaps the largest fury erupting over the USPSTF recommendations prioritizing economics and population data over the doctor's clinical judgment.
    58 min
  • 04/06/17 Guest Dr. Meg Edison
    Dr. Meg Edison touched off a firestorm in late 2015 when she decided she had had enough of MOC.
    Edison exposed MOC (maintenance of certification) for ABP (American Board of Pediatrics) as a large scale money making scheme that allowed its leaders a laundry list of luxuries while costing struggling pediatricians thousands in direct fees, testing, and office based self reporting.
    Edison published her reasons and ignited a groundswell of support from like minded doctors. The ensuing outrage has even risen to a general vote by the AMA to (in part) reject MOC requirements for practicing physicians.
    Meg steps into the Doctor's Lounge with host Michael Koriwchak, M.D. to update us on the battle over MOC taking place in states around the country.
    59 min
  • 03/30/17 Guest Michael Hamilton
    Michael Hamilton, Managing Editor of Health Care News for the Heartland Institute, just published "Health Care Reform Lives, Vindicating House Conservatives" and steps into the Doctor's Lounge to discuss what happened, what went wrong, and how the potential for real reform (that was actually passed in prior Congressional sessions) is stronger than ever.
    58 min
  • 03/23/17 Topic: The REAL cost of health care.
    Join Dr. Hal Scherz, MD as he discusses the real cost of health care, doctors moving out of private practices and hospital charges."The inability of the GOP to get a healthcare bill to a vote is typical of the dysfunction that describes the Republican Party.
    As opposed to the Democrats who march in unison and can get legislation through Congress, the GOP is paralyzed by competing ideas. They have forgotten what it means to govern, and can only whine about what they would be able to do if they were given the chance. Well, they asked for the House, for the Senate and the White House.
    59 min
  • 03/09/17 Guest Grace-Marie Turner
    Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute and member of the D4PC Foundation Advisory Board steps into the Doctor's Lounge to discuss not only the bill and the process, but her call for compromise.
    59 min
  • 03/02/17 Dr. Koriwchak reports
    Host Mike Koriwchak, M.D. attended the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference in Orlando last week. Koriwchak described the competition for market dominance in health information technology as a Game of Thrones. Tune in as he reviews the event and unpacks the state of IT post-conference.
    57 min
  • 02/09/17 Guest Michael Hamilton
    Join Dr. Hal Scherz and his guest Michael Hamilton from the Heartland Institute as they discuss potential changes in health care and the potential re-placement of the Affordable Care Act.
    59 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.