The Paradocs Podcast with Eric Larson

Everyone knows that one of your most important assets is your identity. Without that you will have difficulty getting anything accomplished. Most importantly, whoever holds the key to your identity will wield the ultimate power. Thankfully, today's digitized world and the emergence of block chains for public accounting and private security is bringing us to a place where you can store this informa...

If you knew that millions of people were being murdered by government in the world what would you do? If you found out these people were being murdered for 'spare parts' to be sold to the highest bidder - what would you do? These are the questions we have to ask ourselves as we look at the practice of involuntary organ harvesting occurring in China to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

One of the most overlooked aspects of medical training is what to do after you finish your training. Especially any guidance for how you introduce new products to market as a physician. Doctors are coming up with products all the time that keep us healthier, make our life easier, or doctor's lives easier but there is usually not a lot known by those launching new products about how to do it. And w...

It's easy to forget that physicians are people. Certainly when we discuss doctors in our national political debates we forget that there is a critical relationship ignored - the patient-physician relationship. As that relationship is strained with the introduction of electronic medical records, production pressures, administrator rules changes, and malpractice physician burnout is almost inevitabl...

One of the biggest obstacles faced by patients and doctors in health care is the exchange of payment for services as this is now accomplished through intermediaries like insurance companies, Medicare, etc. What would happen if we used a cryptocurrency with verifiable records on a blockchain with miniscule transaction fees? Or if you could earn credits as a patient by performing healthy acts? Learn...

Would residents (doctors in training) forget to rest and nap if there was no bureaucrat making rules regulating it? Would people leave rotten food in refrigerators without ACGME accrediting body recommendations? Who exactly is in charge in the hospital teaching centers? Do the hospitals function to get people better and who new doctors how to do it or do they exist to enforce rules from far off bu...

Why is health insurance so expensive? Why have premiums accelerated under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) even more than they were before? Even with the increased guaranteed coverage requirements, the price increases on premiums has outstripped those variables even more than you would expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it mean to treat a patient? Is it knowing your patient and making an educated decisions about how best to treat them or is it viewing people in the aggregate and working towards making the best medical choices for your community or health system? This is the crux of the question that Dr. Michel Accad poses when deciding how you want to practice medicine (or be cared for by physicians.) L...

What impact do FDA (Food & Drug Administration) regulations have on Americans? Are they truly benign or could they be costing us not only extra money at the pharmacy but our lives? Today, Dr. Mary Ruwart and I discuss the true impact of FDA regulations and how they do in fact shave years off of our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 009: Doctors Getting Worked Over By the ABIM with Dr. Wes Fisher Once again we revisit the issue of maintenance of certification (MOC) only this time with a lurid tale of conniving, cronyism, and dishonesty. Today's tale is of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) which is charged with setting the standards for board certification for about one quarter of America's physicians. The...

One unique stressor facing physicians is malpractice litigation. Its occurrence is so common that 10% of physicians are in the litigation process at any one time. The incidence of physicians admitting to suicidal ideation in a year is 7% - twice the rate of the general population! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me as Dr. Wacasey's folksy humor, vignettes, and aphorisms take you on a humorous journey to leave you better informed the next time you head into the health insurance market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 006: "Doc, I'm Over Here, That's Just a Computer Screen." Why Don't Electronic Health Records Help with Dr. Ken Fisher Electronic health records (EHRs) were supposed to revolutionize the way we practice medicine. They were going to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and radically change we take care of patients. EHRs have managed just one of those goals - radically change the way we take c...

Are you aware that we face critical shortages of basic medication and medical supplies on a daily basis in the United States? Currently, over 100 generic medications are at various levels of critical supplies. Spinal anesthetic kits are undersupplied as are a large number of chemotherapeutic medicines. If we have a country where you never have to go a day without kale in the supermarket, why shoul...

Have you wondered what the steps are to open your own direct primary care practice? Whether you are a resident physician or established physician this episode will offer a guide to starting your own practice to begin practicing medicine the way you want on your own terms. In this episode, Eric and Chad walk through the advantages of opening a direct primary care practice and each step you need to...

In this episode, Eric and Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI3) discuss the state of health care in the United States and what changes are likely to transpire at the federal level. Is Congress hopeless (spoiler alert: yep)? What would he do if he were in charge of transforming the US Health Care Industry? Which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

In this episode, Eric speaks with Dr. Belen Amat, a med/peds physician who switched from a traditional medical practice of using insurance to one of direct primary care in Grand Rapids, MI. Eric & Belen discuss the direct primary care model for delivering health care in America. Dr. Amat describes how the switch to a new model changed her whole attitude about primary care and has made her happier,...

Eric & Meg discuss what maintenance of certification (MOC) is and why it is a problem for physicians and their patients. Meg describes why the MOC process is so destructive to the practice of medicine and why non-physicians should care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices