Knock Knock Eye: Is Corporate Medicine Breaking Emergency Care?

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens · Feb 26, 2026 · 39m

This episode starts with something that makes me very angry and ends with something that makes me genuinely happy. First, we talk about what’s happening in Eugene, Oregon, where a nonprofit hospital system decided not to renew a 35-year contract with its locally rooted emergency physicians and instead hand the ER over to a large corporate staffing group based thousands of miles away. Wait times went up, morale collapsed, doctors spoke up and admin responded by replacing them. If you’ve ever wondered how corporate medicine quietly dismantles community care, this is a textbook example.

Then, to…