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Dear Healthcare, It's You
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A new podcast investigating the broken Healthcare system in the United States.
Join internal medicine physician, Doctor Elisha Yaghmai, M.D., and independent journalist, Jo O’Hanlon, as they dive into the cracks of America’s failing medical institutions and healthcare system.
What’s wrong with American Healthcare? Why is our system failing? You know you’re getting screwed over in terms of costs of coverage, but exactly how, and how badly? How good is the care you're actually receiving for these high prices? Who is profiting from the system in the U.S.? What can we do to change it?
Join us as we dive in and start dissecting.
Season 1 debuts Jan. 30, 2024. Subscribe now to start learning more.
Also available on:
• Podcast website: dearhealthcare.com
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6sJmsalp3f6SZbSXlBzH8o
Join internal medicine physician, Doctor Elisha Yaghmai, M.D., and independent journalist, Jo O’Hanlon, as they dive into the cracks of America’s failing medical institutions and healthcare system.
What’s wrong with American Healthcare? Why is our system failing? You know you’re getting screwed over in terms of costs of coverage, but exactly how, and how badly? How good is the care you're actually receiving for these high prices? Who is profiting from the system in the U.S.? What can we do to change it?
Join us as we dive in and start dissecting.
Season 1 debuts Jan. 30, 2024. Subscribe now to start learning more.
Also available on:
• Podcast website: dearhealthcare.com
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6sJmsalp3f6SZbSXlBzH8o
When Do Medical Students Choose Their Specialty?
How and when does a doctor decide what type of medicine they will practice?
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai talks about the practical timeline of events in medical school as far as when students decide their specialty and when they do what parts of their training -- which ends up illuminating another flaw in the structure of America's Medical Education system.
Hear more in the full podcast episode.
Episode 3 - End of Medical School & Renewed Purpose
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Dear Healthcare, It’s You - A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system.
Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change?
Season 1 starts o...
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai talks about the practical timeline of events in medical school as far as when students decide their specialty and when they do what parts of their training -- which ends up illuminating another flaw in the structure of America's Medical Education system.
Hear more in the full podcast episode.
Episode 3 - End of Medical School & Renewed Purpose
ruclips.net/video/OfZXJZ3ygGc/видео.htmlsi=3g_EhUixvIOwHkF0
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Dear Healthcare, It’s You - A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system.
Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change?
Season 1 starts o...
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Normalization of Abuse In Medical Education
Просмотров 158Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai discusses how the environments in both med schools he attended and reportedly in many medical education environments - were ripe for abuse against medical students. Everything from the authoritarian type of power some attending physicians yielded in their refusal to help students studying under them to repeated sexual harassment known about and ignored by the administration, ...
Medical Student Reprimanded For Speaking Up
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Dr. Elisha Yaghmai recalls the story about his time in medical school when he pushed back against the strongarm authoritarian powers that be, and was reprimanded for expressing his interest in the area of medicine he may need in the real world. While this isn't the most greivous of examples Elisha shares from his stories in this episode, it's another one of them that points to the issue of thos...
Watching America's Medical System Crumble | Healthcare Podcast Clip
Просмотров 251Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai talks about how 2020 and the years following decimated the medical and healthcare systems in America because of pre-existing system issues. Unfortunately, the issues with the US healthcare system have been creating cracks long before the visible break that everyone started to be aware of in 2020 as the world started to shut down. Hear more in the full podcast episode. Episode...
An Abuse of Power In Medical Education
Просмотров 494Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai talks candidly about the abusive environments he experienced and witnessed in his medical education in both medical schools he attended - including within exterior hospital and clinical settings. Why is your doctor such a jerk? Elisha argues that unkind and unhelpful physicians are a direct byproduct of the cycles of abuse, and the abusive environments they experienced in med...
Not All Doctors Are Equal - Flaws In The American Medical System
Просмотров 644Месяц назад
Not all doctors are equal, even when considering many physicians of the same type. Dr. Elisha Yaghmai makes this point in the podcast because he was aware, when he was a brand new resident physician, he was widely overworked and underprepared to handle the caseloads he was being asked to tackle. What became obvious to him as a glaring flaw in our healthcare system and our medical education stru...
Medical Students Tried To Transfer - Blocked By Administration
Просмотров 196Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai shares about how his time in medical school at Tulane University came to a bitter end. The school's administration started to (unofficially, but efficiently) block medical students from transferring to other med schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Students were initially told they could transfer, and many started to seek out that option, only to end up being blacklisted...
What Type of People Become Medical Educators?
Просмотров 256Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai brings up the different personality types that you will find among those who are in education positions in the medical field of academia. In the full episode, he goes deeper, talking about how some of those personality types end up creating abusive power dynamics. Hear more in the full podcast episode. Episode 2 - Medical School Part II: Abuse of Many Kinds ruclips.net/video/...
Curiosity Revived The Medical Student
Просмотров 110Месяц назад
Elisha recalls about finding joy again as a burned out medical student who had endured many abuses of power and as a result who had become jaded by the profession before he was even actually in it. As he advanced in his medical education, Dr. Elisha Yaghmai was finally finding himself in learning environments where his curiosity could alight him and drive him once again. From this instance in w...
Medical School Didn't Have A Contingency Plan B When Hurricane Katrina Hit
Просмотров 101Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai tells the story about how he and the other med students at Tulane in New Orleans were left without assistance in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina. What began as a natural disaster that affected everyone in the area, ended up being the first major event that exposed the cracks in the larger medical system (in a glaring way) to Elisha and the rest of the med students ther...
Burned Out Med Student Finds Joy In Practicing Medicine Again In Private Practice Internship
Просмотров 548Месяц назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai tells the story of working as an intern under a private practice doctor who ended up just leaving him and going on vacation for two weeks. While this was NOT a kosher arrangement, and shouldn't have happened the way it did, what it did offer Elisha was an environment of autonomy in a non-critical-care and non-emergency-care environment that allowed him to dig in and really ha...
Medical Students Experience Hazing Or Abuse?
Просмотров 6852 месяца назад
Elisha tells the story of an abusive attending physician who refused to let Elisha and his fellow med students speak to him when they were studying under him in the hospital. this is one of a slew of examples Elisha gives in this episode about how many doctors and teachers he and his cohort experienced through medical school that abused their power in numerous ways. Unfortunately, abuse is expe...
Med Students Stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Просмотров 622 месяца назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai shares the story about how he first discovered some of the severe systemic cracks in the medical system as he was a medical student in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. In the aftermath of the hurricane, the medical students at Tulane were left without a payout of their financial assistance (which had actually been owed prior to the hurricane and had been delayed becaus...
Med Students Experience Abuse in Medical School
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 месяца назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai discusses how the environment of medical education in both medical schools he attended - including within the hospital and clinical settings - were environments ripe for abusive behavior to students. He believes this type of abusive dynamic plays into the reason we have so many of both bad doctors and unkind doctors in America. Hear more in the full podcast episode. Episode 2...
Medical Students Being Blocked From Transferring Out of Med School
Просмотров 4212 месяца назад
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai tells the story about realizing the backend politics that were at work when he was a med student and the med school started to block students from transferring to other medical schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Students were not being well-equipped to continue their medical school education as Tulane navigated their way forward following the hurric...
Episode 13 - Why American Healthcare Is Failing: A Medical Assessment | New Healthcare Podcast
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Episode 13 - Why American Healthcare Is Failing: A Medical Assessment | New Healthcare Podcast
Episode 12 - Lobbying & Legislation: How Laws Affect Healthcare Innovation
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Episode 12 - Lobbying & Legislation: How Laws Affect Healthcare Innovation
Episode 11 - Cost of Caring: The Personal Toll of Improving American Healthcare Innovation | Podcast
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Episode 11 - Cost of Caring: The Personal Toll of Improving American Healthcare Innovation | Podcast
Episode 10 - Telemedicine: How Health Insurance Providers Block Innovation | New Healthcare Podcast
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Episode 10 - Telemedicine: How Health Insurance Providers Block Innovation | New Healthcare Podcast
Episode 9 Telehealth: Pioneers in the Future of Healthcare Technology | American Healthcare Podcast
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Episode 9 Telehealth: Pioneers in the Future of Healthcare Technology | American Healthcare Podcast
Episode 8 - Burnout: Insurance Coding & Psychological Corrosion | New Podcast on American Healthcare
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Episode 8 - Burnout: Insurance Coding & Psychological Corrosion | New Podcast on American Healthcare
Episode 7 - Too Much Of A Good Thing: Working At A Multi-Hospital System | New Healthcare Podcast
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Episode 7 - Too Much Of A Good Thing: Working At A Multi-Hospital System | New Healthcare Podcast
Episode 6 - Too Little, Too Late: Practicing Medicine at a Rural Hospital | New Healthcare Podcast
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Episode 6 - Too Little, Too Late: Practicing Medicine at a Rural Hospital | New Healthcare Podcast
Episode 5 - Change of Residency: Collaborative vs. Competitive | #podcast on #healthcare in #america
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Episode 5 - Change of Residency: Collaborative vs. Competitive | #podcast on #healthcare in #america
Episode 4 - Effective Vs. Efficient - Medical Residency Yr 1 | #podcast on #healthcare in #america
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Episode 4 - Effective Vs. Efficient - Medical Residency Yr 1 | #podcast on #healthcare in #america
Episode 3 - End of Medical School & Renewed Purpose | New #podcast about #healthcare in #america
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Episode 3 - End of Medical School & Renewed Purpose | New #podcast about #healthcare in #america
Eps 2 - Medical School Part II: Abuse of Many Kinds | New Healthcare Podcast
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Eps 2 - Medical School Part II: Abuse of Many Kinds | New Healthcare Podcast
Eps 1 - Medical School Part I: Backroom Politics | Healthcare Podcast
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Eps 1 - Medical School Part I: Backroom Politics | Healthcare Podcast
Dear Healthcare, It's You - Podcast Trailer
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Dear Healthcare, It's You - Podcast Trailer
I guarentee you that the resident didnt tell the attending how you told him your ‘preference’
This channel is a cool concept, but I wish every video wasn't just tidbits of an interview with just one doctor. Like interview multiple doctors and have some sort of overarching theme.
This is a huge problem. It allows the medical schools to treat studenta like dirt.
I never experienced this level of toxicity. I really enjoyed med school.
This is not representative of normal medical school
After passing the USMLE I realized this profession isn't worth it
I would like to take a quick second to address those of you who are currently medical students, residents, or even aspiring medical students. I am completing my pulmonary and critical care fellowship after doing my internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern. UT Southwestern had a notorious reputation of being “malignant“ many years ago when my attending Positions were going through their residency training and fellowship training. UT Southwestern was a very prestigious place to train and it attracted a lot of big heads and narcissists. however, this is very much not the same environment that is currently present at UT Southwestern, nor is it present at most any other medical school or academic teaching hospital. Medicine is a prestigious field that requires students and physicians to be self driven and motivated to continue learning, as medicine continues to evolve. medicine is a field, where even a small mistake could result in a detrimental outcome for your patient(s). it is for these reasons that we hold each other to such a high standard. When you are a medical student, Resident, or fellow, you will inevitably be faced with notorious “rounds.” This is where you will likely be “PIMPed” for the first time. We used to joke and say PIMP meant “Put In My Place” because the questions being asked of you could range from simple questions to the most difficult and intricate of questions. When you are being asked questions, whether it be on rounds or individually, all you can do is your best to answer the question with the knowledge you have to draw from. this is not to say that if you get it wrong, you will not be called out for it, regardless you should use this as a learning opportunity and make time to study that topic later in the day - you WILL be asked about this same question later on and if you still don’t know the answer, then the resulting ass chewing was earned. Medicine isn’t meant for individuals with thin skin who cannot take criticism. I don’t agree with bullying or creating a hostile work environment, however, I do believe in keeping each other accountable when you’re not rising to the standard. I say all of this to say that medicine is a unique and very rewarding field that should not be pursued lightly. You need to do your due diligence and scope out your interests and shadow with other physicians before you make this your journey. Many people have said, “if you could see yourself loving ANY other career, do that instead.” I agree with this, because medicine is a field that will grind you to a pulp…if you aren’t passionate about medicine and you aren’t sure about choosing this are your career, then moments like that will make you second guess yourself and you WILL enter into a state of depression and resentment. You are going to acquire a massive load of debt, miss out on most family/friend events, delay life goals, and work in excess of 80-hour work weeks for less than minimum wage. Medicine is a path that takes many years to complete, in fact, it is nearly the same as restarting at kindergarten and graduating high school all over again in terms of the duration of schooling and training. HOWEVER, it is worth it if it is your true calling. I love what I do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. The hospital is my home and the nursing staff and physicians are my family. I have a wife and kids, which are my primary family and my primary responsibility, but the hospital is right in line.
If this is a podcast about healthcare in general, let’s talk about the joint commission and magnet status and how it’s all a massive scam.
This was incredibly entertaining and sad as a new physician slogging through first year of residency.
As a medical student. I feel seen 🥲
What do you mean by this? The issues being described in this podcast are hardly relatable to anyone who is currently in medical school.
4th year medical student here. There are some improvements in hours and explicit discriminatory comments, but the culture of pimping, humiliation, and hierarchy is very much still present.
Please get a nurse on your show
The craziness of having medical personnel routinely work through the night without properly shifting their sleep cycle, is a recipe for unnecessarily killing people.
Thank you for making this podcast! ❤
I had a similar experience with working in private practice versus in a hospital as a physio student. I found the hierarchy and chaos of hospital too much whereas being respected and given a lot of autonomy in private practice encouraged me to grow without being constantly worried about getting told off (or doing something seriously wrong, as the clinic patients problems were generally less acute). It would be hard to replicate this type of learning environment in a hospital but it is something that educators should consider when trying to bring out the best in students. Being constantly afraid of being judged or failing doesn't facilitate creativity or the ability to learn effectively. Emotional safety is essential part of effective education
I can’t stand the way he ends almost every sentence with “right”, RIGHT?
He uses the word ‘right’ as a filler word so much. I counted SIX times in one sentence.
Not as annoying as her trying to finish his every thought.
That sounds about right...
That senior resident was a liar.
This is a cogent description of how the American healthcare system is both fragmented & critically interdependent. The absurdity of how it’s been determined that the administrative burden for providers is about 2 hours for each hour of care delivered, which is of course inefficient & contributory to pt & provider dissatisfaction. But lack of interoperability, increase in illness acuity & chronicity alike, & the regs & ins rules don’t leave many options, at least under the current reimbursement model. Yet ie lobbyists keep the matter of an alternative system off the table. …Meanwhile patient (not to mention clinician-) trajectories to deaths of despair (DoD) go on complicated by & complicating the healthcare/system that is there to take care of people...
This was a really interesting conversation but I feel like it got cut off when they were only getting started.
I will be going for clerkship in 2 weeks
so glad the toxicity in the medical field is being spoken about
Doctors who are trained to be snide and dismissive of each other are even better at being snide and dismissive of patients.
FACTS
Very interesting stories ! Thanks for the sharing
The unfortunate opposite of treating people with no hope or quality of life does happen occasionally, elsewhere. I had a great-great-aunt in New Zealand who was in her late 80s. She was in extremely good health...I'm not saying she ran marathons or anything, but she did vigorous exercise every day, had looked after herself her whole life, and based on family history, she had a decent chance of hitting 100. In her 70s, she got breast cancer, but she beat it. And then, ~10 years later, it came back. I believe she was clinically Stage 2 (not sure of the variety of cancer). And yet she *_could not access treatment._* It wasn't that there wasn't treatment available, that it wouldn't have worked, or even that it would have been so destructive to her well-being that it wasn't even worth considering. She wanted the chemo, because in every other way, she was fine, and there was a high probability that with the treatment, even if the cancer eventually claimed her life, she could have gotten many additional, high-quality years before a medically-assisted death might become prudent. But, it was policy at the time (no idea about now, this was about 10-15 years ago) to deny care and just provide for such a patient's quality of life in this circumstance, and let them die. And she did. To me that's just as bad as the alternative. I do know, however, that the other side is FAR more common...and I have seen it in my own more immediate family, here in Canada. I had an uncle who beat stage 3 colon cancer in 2014, but who, about 7 years later (just before his 62nd birthday), was diagnosed with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (which, when it was discovered, had already spread to his bones and his brain). His oncologists put him on one of those impressive, ~10-grand-a-month drug regimens (it was Osimertinib, which, as a Canadian, he did not have to pay for), and gave him radiation therapy for the metastases. Still, *_every single doctor who saw him knew that he would not be cured, that his cancer was a death sentence._* However, like a lot of patients in that situation, he heard what he wanted to hear, that there was still hope for him - that people in his situation have been cured (or at least have lived beyond 5 years)...which is true (albeit made more unlikely in his case due to other complications - obesity, atherosclerosis, untreated diabetes, untreated sleep apnea...unlike my great great aunt, he was NOT an otherwise healthy person). What he NEEDED to hear was "you are dying. With these treatments, we can help give you another year, maybe 1.5 years of life. The first few months of that will be hard, but probably still worth living, but towards the end of this time, you will be weak, your cognitive abilities will disappear entirely, and you will spend your last days-to-weeks drooling in a care home (ideally), or waiting for placement." He needed to know that he had a limited time to get his affairs in order. And he needed to know that it's okay to stop treatment at any time, indeed that it may become the preferable option. But his doctors would always couch their messaging in optimism. Doctors can't lie to patients, but they can emphasize certain true things while barely discussing others (especially when it's clear that the patient doesn't want to hear those other things...it's human nature to tell people what they want to hear...although *_DOCTORS SHOULD KNOW BETTER_* ). "There are always miracles" was a phrase he heard a lot, and he latched onto it like a wood tick on a border collie. Rather than going through the 5 stages of grief (if such a thing is truly...a thing, and not a mere construction of coincidence), he stalled out at denial. And being that personal medical information is private and cannot legally be shared with others without a patient's consent, his message to his friends, to his family, to his common-law partner was "I'm sick, but I will get better. I beat cancer before and my doctors say I can beat it again." Now my mother (his sister) is a retired nurse and I'm an x-ray technologist - we both got some training in the severity of cancer at various stages, what can be done (in general terms), and what the probabilities are (5-year survival rates, etc.). Furthermore, we both have a strong science background, and therefore possess the skills to parse the nonsense from the real science available online and thus learn what we could about his specific diagnosis, and the medical interventions he was receiving. We knew the truth (though we could not get him to see it). But the rest of the people in his life were absolutely bamboozled by his attitude. It was only about a month before his death, approximately 16 months post-diagnosis (turns out the doctors DO know what they're talking about, because 12-18 months was what the studies gave him...any longer, and the odds just dropped off completely) that it became clear to the rest of them, even as my uncle still sat firmly in denial. *_His mind degenerated to the point where he literally COULDN'T understand that he was dying BEFORE he ever accepted his fate._* This could all have been avoided with a simple and consistent message from his healthcare team. In situations like this, it is extremely obvious what is going on - their patient is not truly coming to an understanding of the medical consensus on their condition. And as difficult as it must be, the medical professionals who treat such patients need to be as kind as they can be while delivering a BLUNT message, over and over again, until it sinks in. Hope is great when it's real. Hope can also lead to an incredible amount of suffering. Fortunately, he did not actually suffer all that much...physically. The adverse side effects from his treatments were probably worse than the cancer ever did to him. But mentally...to degenerate to the point where you know you are losing your mind, and are still asking the doctors to zap your brain again and again, to try and re-claim it (because you believe in the cure). That never should have happened. We have medical assistance in dying in Canada, and he would have been a textbook candidate, 2-4 months before the cancer itself claimed his life. But the thought never entered his brain...because his doctors couldn't get him to face reality.
Y’all are doing great work by having these conversations. A lot needs to change; we can no longer be operating in particular ways due to long held tradition. We must be bold and evolve and also prioritize healthcare professionals well-being from the bottom-up to top-down.
Which school/hospital? makes no sense to say all this and not sat names... other ppl probably going through same thing because youre silent
It's everywhere, this is the norm. So no point in saying names!
Fear of lawsuits.
The funny thing is that residency is way way worse than this😂😂
Wow. Sounds like hell.
It is criminal that this only has 208 views
As a fourth year med student, more people need to listen to these videos
Listening is so important before speaking.
Healthcare as a whole is filled with a Lord of the Flies type of nature, everyone just wants to feel superior to the other, when patient care, ethics, and empathy should be top priority.
And water is wet
Sounds like this doctor had a rough go and needs a place to vent. Fair enough but might not be the most accurate representation of the current state of medical training for those who are looking
If you think this is rough... 😂😂 people should know what they are getting into. Being a medical student/resident is BRUTAL and will make you contemplate unaliving yourself at least once throughout the journey, if not more.
This is in no way an isolated occurrence. This is the culture of "professional" programs in medicine and nursing. Hazing and rituals abound throughout the hierarchies. It was never just going to school and studying. It was always this.
Youre right - in a lot of cases it's worse.
I never realized docs experienced such incivility in training, like in nursing but also with its own distinct themes. 🥺
Don’t forget the abuse med students undergo from the nurses, also, who are mainly women. Most med students are treated like b#tche$ since their career(life) depends on it, and so are forced to go through this hazing.
Nursing school has its share of abuse as well.
@@elijahsmith5683 💯💯
The dynamic of nurses as “b#tche$” punching up
@@trixiesilver4030 Fr they’re misogynistic and I’ve heard nurses get treated ten times worse by abusive ego statistical doctors 🙄🙄🙄🙄
"It produces people whose best skill becomes hiding their weaknesses". That was gold. I'm a medical student in the UK and I can confirm we have this same culture of bullying across our healthcare system. My worst experiences have always been in theatre - it seems surgery attracts the worst of the egotistical. I'm very thick skinned, but some of those instances made me genuinely cry when I got home. Good on you guys for spreading awareness. Maybe one day, those other medical professionals who stand back and let it happen will speak up.
A profession that preaches teamwork, yet, carries a culture of perpetuate beat-down and power scaling towards future doctors. Obviously, the more experienced are going to know more than incoming students. Quite sad.
It’s quite different now and better. But yes some older attendings still have this sentiment
Omg I'm starting medical school at Tulane in 2 weeks!
god speed
You’ll be fine. Medical school isn’t the way he explains it in these videos. The education is very difficult and requires hours and hours of studying and you will likely become well acquainted to “Anki” flash cards, which is what I would do. Furthermore, clinical rotations as a MS3 and MS4 are much better than how it used to be. Medical students are encouraged to learn and see patients, but they aren’t seen as “scribes” and they are not there for “grunt work.” I am a fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine - I LOVE it when I have a medical student who is enthusiastic and driven to learn. There are far too many lazy students that I’ve seen over the last few years, please do not subscribe to that way of thinking. If you work hard, show up early, and show your interest in what is going on…you will be taken care of very well.
Great video!
Yea uh same thing in an orchestra, there are age old hierarchical systems still in place.
Yup... the medical field is filled with nothing but narcissists these days. It didn't use to be like that 😢
2020 definitely do our medical system any favors. 😬
It’s so frustrating that we didn’t have to end up in the dire state we’re in now in terms of our healthcare system. Cracks grow. Our current nurse staffing shortage is only one of the direct resulting problems we’re facing today because of what wasn’t taken care of long before 2020 😣
"That sounds like a compelling podcast. The state of American healthcare is such an important topic. What did you think of the assessment? Would you recommend giving it a listen?"
What’s the matter with American Healthcare? It’s an affordability problem. YES. But it’s not JUST an affordability problem.
America is a joke anymore.
It's a tragedy from where we're sitting :'(
Stop putting cancer into our food and make helth care, especially dental, more affordable. Obama care wanted more than 2k a month just for me and my young child for only medical, so no vision no dental. That's a scam. Add in the co pays would have been outrageous and it's more of a scam. Morbid obesity wouldn't be as much an issue if the FDA actually did their jobs and stopped letting companies put toxic crap in out food. The food differences of the exact same brand in America vs say the EU is staggering and sickening.
Cheap food isn't a choice for a lot of people. Coping mechanism? More like survival mechanism.
You're absolutely right. In this clip specifically, Dr. Yaghmai is more referring to the ways some people do tend to use it and alcohol or other substances as coping mechanisms to deal with the extreme rise in stress and mental anguish we're seeing across patient panels regularly these days. But in the full episode we do also address this point -- the cost of healthier food choices is so prohibitively high for so many people that it is not even an option. Unfortunately, our overall decline in health as a national population has many contributing factors, throughout multiple systems that are failing the very people they're supposed to serve. We're tackling the topic of the failing healthcare system, as that's our area of professional practice and expertise, but ultimately, the conversation falls short if it doesn't acknowledge that there are other systems and factors at play in our declining health levels, too. :(
@@dearhealthcareitsyou Well said. 👏❤️
American food is the absolute worst. Carbs, sugar, seed oils, chemicals galore. Food made in factories is NOT food. That’s why we have endless health epidemics…. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, IBS, autoimmune, dementia, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, autism, etc. …. These are all metabolic illness. We are what we eat. Eat meat, and get all the essential amino acids that will build muscle and heal your organs and hormones and feed your brain!!!!
Our food supply and food intake as a population (two distinct factors) are definitely contributing components to our health crisis. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones. There are many of our systems in the US that are interconnected and contributing to our health and healthcare crises, unfortunately. The healthcare breakdown in and of itself is of great concern to us, as that's our area of professional practice and expertise, so we're taking the time to take a closer look at various areas in the broken healthcare system to examine them and find possible actions that Americans can take to help create an alternative system that actually serves the public again. Of course, the other failing systems all need a similar systematic dismantling/rebuilding, too, before we'll really be in better health as a whole society again.
Of course our other failing systems all play into America’s health crisis, which also is effected by America’s HEALTHCARE crisis… and that’s not even diving into the issue of the things in our food and beverages that surely also contribute to the whole thing 😥🫠
Many of our systems need overhauled, it's true. :(