Dr. Anderson is a family medicine physician. He drops into sojourn studios to discuss health care, mental health, direct primary care, Obamacare and more.
Here are some helpful resources mentioned in the podcast for all sojourners:
1) https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-rise-healthcare-administrator
- TLDR: "The number of physicians in the United States grew 150 percent between 1975 and 2010, roughly in keeping with population growth, while the number of healthcare administrators increased 3,200 percent for the same time period."
2) https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/26/physicians-not-burning-out-they-are-suffering-moral-injury/
- TLDR: In the following article written by Simon G. Talbot, M.D., a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, on physician burn-out
- He explains that "physicians are smart, tough, durable, resourceful people. If there was a way to MacGyver themselves out of this situation by working harder, smarter, or differently, they would have done it already." (This also talks about physician suicide rates being twice as high as active military...and why)
3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/
- TLDR: 17.4 minutes, the time a family doctor usually spends on each patient.
4) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593724/
- TLDR: This is the study done in conjunction with the American Medical Association about doctor spending nearly half of their 11.4 hours per day plugging in information into the computer.
5) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/how-many-patients-is-too-many-study-debunks-industry-standard.html
- TLDR: "But could physicians feasibly take on more patients to reach the "standard" 2,500-patient panel? According to the analysis, no. The researchers suggested it would be nearly impossible to handle a panel size of 2,500 patients — a physician would have to work 21.7 hours per day to deliver comprehensive, quality care to a panel of that size."
6) https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com/
- Find a DPC near you
7) boonsborodirectprimarycare.com
- Find a DPC office in Lynchburg, VA
8) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/letters/doctors-burnout.html
- TLDR: "With mergers and streamlining, it has pushed the productivity numbers about as far as they can go. But one resource that seems endless — and free — is the professional ethic of medical staff members. This ethic holds the entire enterprise together. If doctors and nurses clocked out when their paid hours were finished, the effect on patients would be calamitous. Doctors and nurses know this, which is why they don’t shirk. The system knows it, too, and takes advantage."
