CareTalk with Quick and Quack

S2E1: A new season kicks off with a fascinating discussion about the Perils of Medicare Advantage with Dr Don Berwick and Elaine Fronhofer

In this episode Evan and Bill have 4 rapid fire conversations on the impact of private equity in healthcare; how concepts of alternative medicine be used in western medicine; drivers of physician burnout and we discuss a fascinating email on the business of medicine.

We discuss how the system fails patients everyday and the need for patient advocacy. We interview professional patient advocate Dr Gerda Maissel.

We interview Harvard Assoc Professor Dr David Levine on his work implementing and researching a novel approach to hospital care: the hospital at home model.

In ep 7, we interview Dr Rachel Broady, a physician researcher who practices hospice and geriatric care about how we need to transform the way we care for care elders. We also discuss how physicians diagnose disease.

In Ep 6 we share some recommendations to begin to fix the US Healthcare System. We also take our listener's email challenges navigating the health system and thoughts on improving it.

In this episode we interview Dr Jeff Levin Sherz from Harvard School of Public Health and Willis Towers Watson about Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. We also discuss some emails from our listeners and introduce our first Quick and Quack Puzzler!

In this episode, we go to "school" to hear one of Evan's lectures from his teaching at UMass School of Public Health on the Affordable Care act, and then Evan and Bill discuss the implications of it to improve health and healthcare

In our third show we begin to take on the meaty topics concerning the shortage of physicians and how physicians are paid in the US. We also discuss what the US can learn from the small country of Costa Rica in terms of health and healthcare.

We continue discussion on the history of the US healthcare system and finish introducing ourselves

Welcome to Care Talk with Quick and Quack! Our first episode introduces who we are, how we think about health and healthcare and a bit of the history of the US Healthcare system (part 1)...trying to help to understand how we got in the mess we have... Meet Drs Evan Benjamin and Bill Cutler