Over time, I’ve skilled many issues as a healthcare client which have made me need to rip my hair out (or let loose a visceral scream). As a journalist, too, many a time I’ve engaged in pissed off head-shaking.
And but after I go searching on the sort of commentary there may be on the market about our healthcare trade — apart from astute items of reporting from time to time about some injustice right here or there — it’s largely self-congratulatory.
“We’re probably the most modern technology in healthcare bringing about revolutionary modifications.” (okay nobody mentioned that)
I’m simplifying right here, however you get the gist — it’s loads of pleased speak.
In truth, my accomplice in crime, MedCity Information’ writer, Ken Montgomery, felt this so deeply that late final 12 months he inspired me to do an ongoing collection that would offer the required 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 accomplice of HIP (Well being Innovation Pitch) was equally delay by the limitless parade of podcasts highlighting innovation on the market. After I found that he lived 6 minutes away from my residence within the Bay Space, there was no motive to not do a present within the flesh sans Zoom. (not knocking Zoom, we might use it but.)
Thus Debunked: Slaughtering Myths, Dangerous Practices and Sacred Cows in Healthcare was born.
What are we going to present our viewers that they aren’t getting wherever else? Right here’s Batra’s reply to that on the present:
“Nicely, all people else has loads of fluff. It’s good to have fun successes and milestones and raises and all that stuff, however there’s no exhausting questions. There’s no ying to the yang. It’s simply all about, oh, yay. Good job, nice job. You raised debt. If you happen to actually give it some thought, if you elevate capital, nice job. You simply added extra debt to your desk. What are you going to do with it? What’s kind of the great and the dangerous about it? So I believe I need to get away from the fluff. I’m uninterested in the fluff. Perhaps there’s others which can be uninterested in 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 talk about: shameful billing practices associated to my foot harm, FDA permitting Florida to import medication from Canada and drug pricing general, our experiences at J.P. Morgan and naturally the information out of Basic 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, Basic 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 must always learn about, fascinating information and scoops, whether or not you favored (or disliked) our present and why. We’d admire any suggestions which may assist us on this journey to constructively criticize — albeit with an irreverent tone — the healthcare trade. The aim isn’t gotta journalism however eye-opening conversations that can hopefully encourage/disgrace folks to make modifications with a aim of creating healthcare work higher for folks.
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