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This section points out the lunacy of our healthcare system especially the bureaucratic drag, which is the friction holding doctors back from treating their patients. I believed that the Placebo Journal, which I published for ten years, did a great job poking fun at the Medical Axis of Evil (lawyers, insurance companies, PBMs, administrators, Big Pharma, etc). I have therefore decided to continue the tradition here in a smaller version. Enjoy and keep checking back as I will add new stuff regularly. Also, please send me some crazy examples how you have gotten the run around from our healthcare system. Email them to [email protected]

A Problem We Are Seeing by Steven Mussey MD

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This week’s cartoon hits on a problem which appeared with the start of the new year.  Specifically, people are finding themselves in different health plans.  The reasons for the swaps are numerous: Employer decisions, Termination related to the ACA (the terminations we’ve heard so much about), Exchange plans (which are horrendous in Virginia), or simply…

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The Official Physician Burnout Test

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Do you think you are burning out?  Take the official test.  I created it and it is clinically proven….well, as scientifically proven as any of the other crappy research you read.   Both Vance Lassey and I use this in our talks but I wanted to share with this the world.  Good luck!  (Your answers…

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