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43cc
The Truth About Healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain). Doctors are frustrated. Patients are frustrated. And none of us can get a straight answer on how to make it better … like, really make it better … honestly, we really need to make it better … because it could drive you to drink . . . Cue 43cc. A bi-weekly podcast that exposes how doctors really feel about healthcare in America, 43cc offers raw (and often irreverent) insider knowledge to help patients, and fellow healthcare…
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Rebalancing Our work
The discussion about work structure in medicine can easily descend into a toxic altruism-fueled race to the bottom, but we think there's more to it. Matt and…
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Oh, What a Year
One year, 30+ episodes, thousands of downloads, dozens of guests, and countless f-bombs. We're celebrating our first anniversary in this special episode…
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Our Election advice? Ski the gaps.
The 2024 election is over. Navigating the results has just begun. Our advice? Ski the gaps. To learn more about some of the ideas mentioned in this episode…
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How Economics Explains the World (and Healthcare!)
Are our "free markets" truly free? How can we achieve a balanced healthcare economy when we privatize profits but socialize losses? Andrew Leigh, member of the…
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The Fight for Physician-Led Healthcare: Live from the PHA Leadership Conference
We're bringing you into the 'room where it happens' and broadcasting a panel discussion that we recorded live at the PHA leadership conference in Naples…
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A Small Fish in a Big Pond
Successfully operating an independent hospital in a sea of large hospital systems is no easy task. How do you maintain negotiating power? How do you retain…
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Enough. Physicians Need Professional Independence.
Right now, too many of us feel helpless to change the healthcare and insurance systems. Patients feel powerless, and physicians feel betrayed. But one proven…
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Love and Loss
To be a part of something bigger than yourself is one of life's greatest gifts, and when the daily acts of life and work are challenged by love and loss it's…
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Bonus: Turn on the Lights
43cc is proud to share this "Turn on the Lights" episode focused on how can health care organizations align their values to support both high-quality patient…
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Dr. Don Berwick: When Profit Becomes a Problem
Dr. Don Berwick brings decades of healthcare leadership to a conversation with Matt and Wendy about the effect of social, moral, and structural determinants of…
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An Intro to AI
AI in medicine is here to stay. But do we like it? In the first of many episodes to come on this topic, Wendy and Matt discuss AI's growing influence in…
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Want Change? Start with a Story.
Dr. Pedja Stojicic, Executive Director of People Power Health, and Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has led movements that…
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Another Round of Noncompetes and Steward Health
"Another Round" offers short, follow-up news and commentary on stories 43cc has covered in the past. In this episode, Wendy and Matt revisit noncompetes and…
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Mad as Hell!
Changing healthcare can feel like an insurmountable task. But when change isn't limited to what's within an individual's control, and when the scale of change…
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One Price Fits All: Price transparency with Dr. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of OK
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma opened in 1997 with one key goal: make all medical fees predictable, transparent, and complete - no surprises. Dr. Keith Smith…
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Is There a Dr. in Charge?
Once upon a time, physicians were in charge of their profession and how they cared for their patients. Our dedication to medicine hasn't changed, so why do so…
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A New AMA? An Interview with Chair of the AMA Board of Trustees Dr. Michael Suk
Physician orgs are splintering into ever narrower specialty groups. Is there one voice that can unite us and advocate for change? The American Medical…
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Another Round: Steward Health Care
"Another Round", a new, bonus addition to 43cc, offers short, follow-up news and commentary on stories we've reported on in the past. In this episode, Wendy…
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A Profession in Peril?
What do we lose, as physicians and as patients, when society no longer treats medicine as a profession? What are the moral, ethical, and practical consequences…
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"Locusts"?: A Lawyer Talks Private Equity in Healthcare
Why is private equity trying to take over healthcare? And what does the law have to say about it? Erin C. Fuse Brown, an expert on private-equity investment in…
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The End of Noncompetes?
Thirty million Americans are bound by noncompetes... or are they? A new FTC ruling signals a seismic shift in favor of physicians and patients, and we're all…
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We Need To Talk About Steward
A massive health system in the Northeast on the brink of collapse, private equity waiting (hiding?) in the wings, and hundreds of thousands of patients at risk…
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Private Equity's Plan to Pillage Healthcare
To put it bluntly, private equity is laundering their greed through the good will of healthcare. Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special…
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Meet the Glaucomfleckens
What happens when "Feelings Bro" and "A Guy Who's Good At Science and Can Lift 300lbs Directly Over His Head" meets Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken? Laughs, of…
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WTF Does "43cc" Mean?
Is it a podcast? A movement? A random show title that Wendy came up with because she couldn't think of anything else? What the f**k does "43cc" actually…
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"The Health Insurance Industry's Worst Nightmare"
Healthcare professionals have long thought that insurance companies were lying to us. According to our next guest, we're right. Wendell Potter, former Senior…
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"Engineers should run Boeing. Doctors should run medicine."
Earlier this year, Wendy shared a post from a physician friend who saw news of a door blowing off a Boeing 737 as a metaphorical omen for the state of US…
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Former CEO of "The Hospital" Was Listening, and He Spoke Out
Last week, we aired a show about a rural hospital in Ohio. As it turns out, the former CEO of that very hospital, Phil Ennen, was listening. And he called in…
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Rural Hospitals are Critically Ill
Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town, joins us to talk about how rural hospital culture and independence…
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The Things Doctors Carry
Why, as doctors, do we do what we do? Through a series of personal stories - from Matt, Wendy, and several of our listeners, we'll take a look at the human…
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Can't Fix It? Build Your Own.
Dr. Fred Liss is an orthopedic surgeon outside Philadelphia. When he couldn't change the hospital where he worked to deliver better care, he built his own. For…
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Grappling with Greed
How much is enough? How much too much? In the last hundred years, healthcare has experienced an unprecedented boom in innovation, technology, and... cost…
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Everyone Has Their Own Sh*t
No matter where you work, everyone - patients, physicians, other clinicians - has their own sh*t, and inevitably, we bring it into the exam room. In this…
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It's Armageddon and We Need to Talk
In this premiere episode, Wendy and Matt lay out an overview of the series and breakdown some of the most pressing healthcare topics we all want to talk about…
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Introducing ... 43cc
An honest, fun, irreverent, and deadly serious podcast series that exposes the truth about healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain). Hosts Wendy Dean, MD and…