Medical access, health care, the complexity of the human body – aspects of life we’re all connected to and require awareness off, but which are so often kept at a distance. This is not just in terms of financial gatekeeping, but also the information we’re allowed to receive, the ‘need to know’ public sharing, and the honest perspectives of those who’ve spent years or decades training and learning how to help people.
It’s easy to lose faith in modern health care, when you experience so much disconnection and disdain. There are barriers, systems in place to keep the business of health running smoothly and beneficially, and these often seem so at odds with the heartfelt intentions and aspirations of people who actually work on the front line.
This summer, a group of qualified and experienced doctors and health professionals, have set-up an unfiltered conversational platform, designed to counter that separation of patient and process.
The Doctor’s Lounge is a uniquely revealing and informative podcast, where physicians, in their own words, ‘say what they really think.’
With four episodes uploaded this August so far, the podcast has already explored the crucial need for physicians to have a say in healthcare policy, as well as the problems with Medicaid, Medicare, and whether or not healthcare is a right or a rigged system.
Co-hosts of The Doctor’s Lounge are founder Dutch Rojas, neurosurgeon Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA, cardiologist Anish Koka, orthopaedic spine surgeon MD Dan Chio, MD, FAAOS, and neurosurgeon Sanat Dixit, MD, FACS.
If you’re a medical professional yourself, or someone who has felt the weight of the system taking favour over individual care – even just those of us with a keen passion for binge watching Grey’s Anatomy – The Doctor’s Lounge is superb; an essential guiding light, in an otherwise often dark and all too mysterious industry.
This week’s episode asks Is Healthcare a Right or a Rigged System?, and is an excellent introduction to The Doctor’s Lounge. The podcast wastes no time with falseness or filler, and there’s no dumbing down of the information or conversations within. The doctors get straight into their thoughts on new legislations, the right to medical freedom, and the future of primary care. They discuss and explain how Medicaid has transformed itself into a subsidy machine, and why policy makers are afraid to let patients control their own dollars, amongst plenty of other topics surrounding this. At just under an hour in full, this conversation from The Doctor’s Lounge is invaluable, and profoundly eye-opening.
The Doctor’s Lounge presents itself as a genuinely caring platform for diving into the real healthcare issues that matter. This latest episode in particular highlights both the professionalism and thoughtfulness of the medical professionals, the doctors, who work within the US healthcare system. There are so many powerful quotes and references made here, from pragmatic and honestly caring viewpoints, with experienced examples at hand, from trauma to longer-term care, and it makes for an inspiring, heart-breaking but refreshing expose of the current state of US healthcare.
“If Medicaid were truly a safety net, why are insurers profiting like it’s Wall Street?” – Dr. Dan Choi
Find The Doctor’s Lounge Podcast on Apple, iHeart or Spotify. Make sure to leave the podcast a strong rating to help it reach more listeners. Head to LinkedIn to connect with Dutch Rojas, Anthony DiGiorgio, Anish Koka, Sanat Dixit, Dan Choi.
