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Navigating the Medical Maze: Strategies for Avoiding Burnout

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Guest column by Virginia Cooper.

In the relentless and demanding field of healthcare, it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of burnout. As a medical professional, you are familiar with the high-stress environment and the toll it takes. Yet, there’s hope. By adopting specific strategies, you can preserve your well-being and continue to provide the best care to your patients.

Embrace Wellness Rituals

Your health is as critical as that of your patients. Integrating wellness rituals into your daily routine is not a luxury but a necessity. Think about activities that bring you joy and relaxation. Maybe it’s a morning jog, an evening of painting, or simply reading a book. Exercise not only keeps you physically fit but also serves as a mental escape from the pressures of work. Regularly engaging in hobbies can rejuvenate your spirit, making you more resilient in your professional role.

Be Conscious About Alcohol Intake

In the high-pressure world of medicine, turning to alcohol might seem like a quick fix for stress. However, moderation is key. Excessive drinking can lead to health issues and impact your ability to perform at work. If you find yourself struggling, consider seeking help. There are various treatment options in the area, with many rehab centers accepting major health insurance providers. Research facilities focusing on factors like treatment methods, location, and patient reviews to find the best fit for your needs.

Improve Decision-Making Under Stress

High-stress situations are part and parcel of medical work. Developing a strategy for making sound decisions under pressure is crucial. Before reacting, take a moment to assess the situation mindfully. This pause allows you to respond thoughtfully rather than reactively. Envision the broader implications of your decisions and trust your well-honed instincts, using the information at hand.

Building a Support Network

The path of a healthcare professional need not be a solitary journey. Building connections with peers can offer a much-needed sense of understanding and support. These relationships provide a safe space to share experiences, challenges, and advice. Engaging in conversations with colleagues who understand the unique pressures of the medical field can be both comforting and enlightening.

Consider Taking a Sabbatical

Sometimes, the best way to recharge is to step away temporarily. A sabbatical, or an extended break from work, can be a transformative experience. It offers an opportunity to rest, pursue personal interests, or engage in professional development activities without the daily pressures of patient care. This time away can provide a fresh perspective and renewed energy, ultimately benefiting both you and your patients.

Reflecting on Your Career Path

In the dynamic world of healthcare, it’s important to periodically reassess your career goals. Are you where you want to be? Is your current role fulfilling? Sometimes, a change within the medical field can reignite your passion for healthcare. Whether it’s specializing in a new area, shifting to a different facility, or even transitioning to a teaching role, these changes can provide new challenges and renewed motivation.

Mastering the Art of Saying “No”

One of the hardest but most essential skills to learn in any demanding career is the ability to say “no.” Setting boundaries is crucial for maintaining your mental and physical health. It’s okay to decline extra shifts or additional responsibilities when you’re already stretched thin. Remember, taking on too much can compromise the quality of care you provide to your patients.

Prioritizing Your Mental Health

The psychological toll of working in medicine can be significant. Regularly check in with yourself. Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or depressed? Seeking professional help through counseling or therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. Mental health professionals can provide coping strategies and support, helping you navigate the complexities of your role with resilience and clarity.

In the fast-paced, high-stakes field of healthcare, taking care of yourself is not just a personal priority—it is a professional necessity. From managing stress to seeking treatment for an alcohol issue and evaluating your career path, each step is crucial in avoiding burnout. Remember, making good decisions under stress is a skill that can be honed with practice and mindfulness. By prioritizing your well-being, you ensure that you can continue to provide the best care for your patients, day in and day out.

Virginia Cooper is a retired community college instructor. She always encouraged her students to see the real-world value in their education, and now, she wants to spread that message as wide as possible. Her hope is that Learn a Living (learnaliving.co) will be a go-to resource for adult learners embarking on starting, continuing, or finishing their education.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Indoctrination, Antisemitism, and Empowering Humanity

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Diana Blum, MD and Jason Littlefield – https://www.americaoutloud.news/indoctrination-antisemitism-and-empowering-humanity/

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”  Harriet Tubman

One of the most important things we can do is keep trying. Sometimes it seems humanity and common sense has left the building.  Schools have allowed politics to infiltrate education. I’m not talking about a seminar or class in political science or a balanced discussion about history or current events. Now we see teachers openly announcing their political persuasion in class. Some go so far as to tell students for whom to vote. That’s not the civics class I remember. Even the Mayor gave no hint of his political party when he came to our class to encourage us to be involved in our city and to vote when we were old enough.

Ethnic Studies in high school. Now that’s a good educational idea gone bad. This was meant to teach students about history, cultures, struggles, and contributions of minority groups in our country that were sorely lacking in textbooks for years. But now, in the name of equity some schools have stopped academic honors programs. This is perverse. Clearly, the way to push lagging students forward is not by holding others back. Now some of the curricula are preaching a particular point of view. With the current Palestinian conflict, the perpetrators of barbarism and savagery upon babies are presented as resistance fighters, rather than terrorists in a conflict with an extremely complicated history.

I’ve lived through unfair housing, segregated school dances, and participated in sit-ins at Woolworths. There was a time when mean-spirited ethnic jokes were socially acceptable. But such racist behavior organically faded over the last 50 years and racial equality was on the rise. Diversity meant we interacted with all sorts of folks as fellow human beings. Now racism is being re-introduced.  The schools teach that the most important attribute of a person is their ethnicity, not their character. It is no wonder that we have a new wave of antisemitism running rampant in our schools and spinning out of control across the country.

We have to work to stop this dangerous trajectory. We all—especially children—need ways to strengthen our most positive traits and deal with our negative emotions. We need to learn how do we learn to live in a space grounded in human dignity rather than fear.

My guests will discuss what is happening in schools and how we can work to raise our children with a mindset of common humanity, not divisiveness.

Resources regarding antisemitism:

Bio

Dr. Diana Blum is a board-certified neurologist who completed her medical school training at the University of Chicago, Pritzker school of Medicine and her Neurology Residency training at Stanford University Medical Center. She is currently in private practice in Silicon Valley, California where she focuses on the chronic management of patients with Parkinson’s Disease. When not practicing clinical medicine, Dr. Blum is a fierce patient and physician advocate, defending Hippocratic oath medicine and the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship through education and activism.

Bio

Jason Littlefield has been an educator for over 20 years. From 2014 to 2021 he was a Social and Emotional Learning Specialist for the Austin Independent School District. In 2017 he established EmpowerED Pathways and co-designed the Empowered Humanity Theory, a framework for life, leadership, and learning. He recently has written a book, Empowered Humanity Theory, A Framework or an Empowering and Dignified Life. Jason has also served students and families from around the world, including Taiwan, China, and Benin, Africa.

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America Out Loud PULSE: The Epidemic of Diabetes and Obesity

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Dr. Dan Weiss – https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-epidemic-of-diabetes-and-obesity-daniel-weiss-md/

At its last count, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 40 percent of U.S. adults age 20 and over, 21 percent of teens, and 14 percent of preschoolers are obese. A December 2019 study that analyzed 26 years of body mass index (BMI [the relation of weight to height]) data concluded that half of U.S. adults will be obese (BMI>25) by 2030. Some 25 percent will be severely obese (BMI>35). Moreover, less than 5 percent of adults get the recommended 30 minutes a day of physical activity. And even when people living in “food deserts” were presented with healthy options, only 10 percent changed their evil eating ways.

According to the CDC’s last comprehensive analysis, the annual medical cost of obesity in the United States to Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers was $147 billion in 2008. And the medical costs for obese people were $1,429 higher than those of healthier weights.

Rising rates of obesity have led to significant increases in the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes Type 2 diabetes worldwide. In 2021, an estimated 536.6 million (10.5%) people aged 20-79 years were living with diabetes, a number that is projected to rise by 2045 to 783.2 million (12.2%).

The saddest development is the cultural normalization of obesity with lingerie models, singers, and television shows celebrating fatness. Do we high-five people with other lifestyle related conditions such as alcoholism, emphysema, or coronary artery disease? Of course not.

U.S. pharmaceutical companies spent $6.1 billion on direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in 2017. Many ads feature chunky type 2 diabetics happily frolicking about, thanks to the drug company’s magic pill. The ads might as well say, “pass the chocolate cupcakes with statin sprinkles drizzled with insulin.”

Today we’ll talk about the causes of the obesity epidemic – and most importantly what we – doctors and patients — can do about it.

Bio

Daniel Weiss, MD, CDCES, is an endocrinologist and physician nutrition specialist in St. George, Utah, with Intermountain Health. Dr. Weiss earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He completed an internal medicine residency followed by a fellowship in endocrinology-metabolism at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

Dr. Weiss has served as a manuscript reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, and the American Journal of Physiology. He has been the principal investigator for 90 clinical research projects, mostly for persons with diabetes and his work has been published in various medical journals.

His opinions on this podcast are his own and do not reflect the views of Intermountain Health, his employer.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Exploring Direct Primary Care with Dr. Kimberly Corba

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Kimberly Corba, DO – https://www.americaoutloud.news/exploring-direct-primary-care-with-dr-kimberly-corba/

Going to the doctor is a necessary inconvenience, or to some, a real pain in the neck, when we are sick. Waiting sometimes weeks for an appointment adds to the irritation.

Seeing a doctor can also be a pain in the wallet. Despite employers’ sponsoring most working Americans’ health insurance, in 2023 workers this year contributed $6,575 annually toward the cost of family premium – that’s $500 more than in 2022, with employers paying the rest.

Many large employers try to save on costs by having on-site clinics where employees can get blood tests, and basic primary care needs. These clinics have reduced the use of the emergency room and improved the overall health of the workers.  This tool is now being adopted by smaller employers. Workers can be seen at a primary care clinic located near the workplaces for free versus an outside visit that is subject to a co-pay.

A troubling issue with standard health insurance is the allegedly free annual “wellness visit.” Patients are often charged for any discussion that veers from a yes or no answer to the screening questions. Real medicine is not a check-the-box endeavor.

Here is what a survey of patients who prefer independent doctors think:

  • 78% appreciate the more personal relationship with their provider
  • 60% trust these providers more
  • 58% prefer to support locally owned businesses
  • 57% say quality of care is higher

Unfortunately, it is getting more difficult to find and independent doctor. Over the last several years many physicians have either closed their private practice and started working for a health care system.

Some physicians have taken their independent practice a step farther. They have ditched insurance and are cash-based. One such model is called Direct Primary Care. The key word is “care”. The physician’s office is dedicated to patients, not health insurers. And where the patient is not a bean counter’s data point. Under the Direct Primary Care model, physicians can maintain a small, independent practice with less time on paper (computer) work and more time with their patients. In addition to time and individual attention, patients can rest assured that their private medical information stays within the walls of the doctor’s office.

My guest tonight will discuss her Direct Primary Care practice. And we will delve into the particular relevance of a strong, private patient-physician relationship as the world devolves into more turmoil.

To find a direct primary care physician:

DPC Frontier

https://aapsonline.org/direct-payment-cash-friendly-practices/

 Bio

Dr. Kimberly Corba earned her medical degree from The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her Rotating Internship at Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center in 1994. After completing a year of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at Temple University Hospital, Dr. Corba and then decided to pursue Family Practice and completed her Residency in 1997 at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. After practicing in the Lehigh Valley for 15 years, Dr. Corba opened the first Direct Primary Care office in the Lehigh Valley in 2016. She still finds time to mentor medical students and volunteer in many community activities for school, youth sports, and church.

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America Out Loud PULSE: One Surgeon’s Fight Against Race-Baiting Radicalism

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast – https://www.americaoutloud.news/one-surgeons-fight-against-race-baiting-radicalism-2/

Medicine as profession has advanced to include all races and males and females. My father went to an all-black college and medical school. I went to a “white” college and medical school. When I was in medical school, the OB-Gyn department accepted its first female resident. Now over half of OB-Gyns are female. Times change – thank goodness.

Medicine as a science has advanced over the years to treat and cure more and more complex conditions. Unfortunately, there are certain groups of patients who don’t have access to good medical care. Sometimes this is because of lack of insurance or they have Medicaid that many doctors do not accept. Some have no transportation or babysitting or a myriad of other socio-economic issues standing in their way. We must do our best to sit down as a health care team and work on getting proper medical care to all Americans.

It seems that instead of doing the hard work of getting down to the root of the problems, academia has taken the easy way out by deciding that the cause of health care disparities is racism. Now all solutions start with racism and end with indoctrination into reverse racism. The academicians and mainstream medical associations write articles that erroneously conclude that minority patients are better off by having a doctor with the same skin color. Of course, this only works for patients of color. A white patient would be a racist if he asked for a white doctor. This obsession with race is clouding deeper societal issues. It is also violating Hippocrates’ oath to treat all patients with the same respect and skill.

My guest today has taken his fight against indoctrination to the streets, so to speak. First direct to the top of the American College of Surgeons and then in the National Review.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/the-american-college-of-surgeons-doubles-down-on-anti-racism/

Link to Dr. Bosshardt’s petition for reinstatement: https://www.change.org/ACS-petition-reinstate-Bosshardt

Do No Harm website – https://donoharmmedicine.org

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism in Medicine website – https://fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine/

Bio

Dr. Rick Bosshardt is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Lake County, Florida for over 33 years. He graduated from University of Miami Medical School and completed his general surgery training in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. After serving as a surgeon at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Dr. Bosshardt returned to Miami in 1987 to train in plastic surgery. He wrote a weekly medical column, entitled House Calls, for the Orlando Sentinel for over 25 years and was a contributing writer to Lake Healthy Living Magazine for over 10 years. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.

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America Out Loud PULSE: What’s New in Healthcare Policy in Washington D.C.

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From my America Out Loud podcast with Grace-Marie Turner  – https://www.americaoutloud.news/grace-marie-turner-new-in-healthcare-policy-in-washington-dc/

A few years ago, Jimmy McMillan ran for mayor of New York with the slogan “the rent is too damn high.” We have been saying the same thing about the cost of medical care for years. Presidents change, the Congressional majorities change, but nothing truly useful gets done. Oh, you say, we had the Affordable Care Act. Some more people got a path to have health insurance policy in their file cabinet but their out-of-pocket costs remained high and the national total expenditures continued to rise.

Yes, the system is expensive and it is way too complicated. There are so many permutations and combinations of deductibles, benefits, co-pays that the average Joe or Jane would not know which insurance policy to choose. Fortunately, for many people, their employer is the person who has to deal with selecting a policy. Unfortunately, having health care tied to employment leaves you one layoff away from your doctor.

Additionally, insurers’ attempts to save money may cost the system more. They deny a more expensive medicine for a cheaper one that does not work as well and the patient stays ill longer, thus costing the system more in the long run.

And what ever happened to an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and simple things are simple? Insurers routinely do not include many preventive strategies, over-the-counter remedies and home care. Washington’s policies do not encourage us to pay directly for basic care. Paying directly allows us to get what we need, when we need it, and from whom we choose to get goods and services.

But is more federal government ruminating and intervention the answer? Doubtful. Improving the system will take looking at not only the theoretical but the practical by talking with health care professionals and patients who are doing the work and paying the bills.

My guest and I will discuss what’s going on in Washington DC. on the health care front.

Link to Galen Institute website: https://galen.org

Link to Galen Institute “Healthcare Choices 2020” solutions: https://galen.org/2020/health-care-choices-2020/

Link to Republican Study Committee “Framework for Personalized Affordable Healthcare”: https://rsc-hern.house.gov/framework-for-personalized-affordable-care?mc_cid=275db3c5ca&mc_eid=da57c10447

Bio

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on achieving affordable health coverage and care for all Americans, especially the most vulnerable. She is founder of the Health Policy Consensus Group that is a place for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to get together and develop policy recommendations. Ms. Turner has also have served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as an appointee to the Medicaid Commission, and as a congressional appointee to the Long Term Care Commission.

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America Out Loud PULSE: The Critical Race Theory Scam with Christopher Arend, JD

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Christopher Arend, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-critical-race-theory-scam/

We’re talking about indoctrination tonight.

I’m giving up my opening statement to some folks who’ve said it better than I can.

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

Josef Stalin

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”

Adolf Hitler

“It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They’ll fasten the chains to their own ankles.” – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr (founder and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute)

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult.

To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”

Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education (1911).

“Oh, I say it again, you been misled. You been had. Bamboozled. Led astray. You been took.”

Malcolm X

Bio

Christopher Arend is a California attorney who has taken up the fight against racist indoctrination in our schools. He was educated in California, including in the heart of the free speech movement at U.C. Berkeley undergraduate with a degree in Political Science and U.C. Berkeley Law School. While in the U.S. Army, Mr. Arend worked as a German translator. He spent most of his legal career practicing law in Germany before returning to California. He spent four years on the Paso Robles School Board working to formulate an even-handed ethnic studies program. He recently authored The Critical Race Theory Scam – Dissecting a Racist Ideology.

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America Out Loud PULSE: How Illegal Immigration Impacts You with Andy Schlafly, JD

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast How Illegal Immigration Impacts You with Andy Schlafly, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/andy-schlafly-jd-illegal-immigration-and-how-it-impacts-you/

Over the last 12 months, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol – as they call it – encountered some 3 million people illegally crossing the southern border. The United States is a large and generous country but the immigration issue has many ramifications.

The psychological and actual damage to black and brown legal resident is incalculable. American citizens are living on the streets while illegal immigrants are being housed.

Since President Biden took office, 425,000 unaccompanied alien children crossed the border. We are paying millions to babysit them in our schools. Teachers are at their wits’ end as they try to teach an onslaught of students who can’t speak a word of English. Don’t despair, Gavin Newsom signed a bill (Assembly Bill 714) to each teachers how to teach illegal aliens. What about our already failing American students. Black students are performing horribly. I guess blacks have outlived their usefulness – their vote is in the bag.  Illegal aliens are the new oppressed person of interest.

And what about the criminals? New criminals crossing and previously incarcerated illegal aliens (407,983 convicted criminal aliens) are not always deported. Is this what we need with crime rising throughout the country?

My guest today is Andy Schlafly. He wrote an article in Townhall highlighting some effects on illegal immigration on employment, among other things. We’ll talk about this, medical censorship, and anything else that crosses our minds.

Bio

Andy Schlafly is general counsel to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He received a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and certificate in engineering physics from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, Mr. Schlafly briefly worked as a device physicist for Intel, then became a microelectronics engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He then attended Harvard Law School along with Barack Obama. For two years Mr. Schlafly was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Schlafly served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School and worked for a large law firm before beginning private practice. Mr. Schlafly created the wiki-based Conservapedia in November 2006 to counter the apparent liberal bias in Wikipedia.

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America Out Loud PULSE: Alternatives to Traditional Health Insurance

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Charles Frohman –https://www.americaoutloud.news/alternatives-to-traditional-health-insurance-with-charles-frohman/

Many thought the Affordable Care Act was the answer to access to medical care.  As it turns out, the insurance premiums are still prohibitive for many consumers. In 2023, the average ACA plan costs $469 per month for a 40-year-old individual, $937 for a couple age 40, $1,214 for a 40-year-old couple with one child, and $1,491 for a 40-year-old couple with two children.

 According to Kaiser Family Foundation data, about half of U.S. adults say they have difficulty affording health care costs. About 40 percent of U.S. adults with health insurance say they have delayed or gone without medical care in the last year due to cost. About one-third of adults with health insurance worry about affording their monthly health insurance premium, and 44 percent worry about affording their deductible before health insurance kicks in. Moreover, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that roughly 6 in 10 insured adults experience problems when they use their insurance.

Everyone is talking about health care price transparency. But what does that really mean? In short, we want receiving medical services to be more like going to the grocery store. You need a bottle of milk, you see several brands, you see the prices, you decide to buy the brand of your choice based on price and quality. Not so simple, you say. This is my health. I don’t know when I’ll get sick. Let’s face it: most of us do not have major medical problems for the most of our lives.

When it comes to more expensive care, like emergency rooms and hospitalizations, it is a small percentage of patients that make up the larger expenses. Repeat visitors to the Emergency Room make up almost one third of the visits. And one quarter of all Medicare funds are spent in an enrollee’s last year of life. What does this mean? Most of us have manageable medical care costs yet the standard insurance model does not take the facts into consideration – much to the consumer’s detriment.

When all these things are considered, it is clear that s different model for paying our medical care makes sense. We are going to talk about that tonight.

Non-insurance health care model: MPB Health

https://joinmympb.com/patientempowerment/

For links for the recording, or promotion at the Out Loud site:

*The Forbes-featured upgrade from insurance – combining Sharing (that doesn’t suffer from networks like insurance), HSAs (the most tax-advantaged retirement vehicle), and a Concierge to help our newly-empowered patients shop on drug, test and specialist prices.

*The money-doubling account for those wanting help with Out of Pocket, whether dental, electives, chiro, urgent care & therapies

* NHF’s campaigns, in particular the “certification” one to open the supply of health care, the “HSA” one to make customers out of patients; the “vaxx centralization” one to oppose the WHO, the “telecom” one to oppose the Wireless Mesh; and the “homeopathy/compounding” one to protect access to consumer-preferred natural treatments

Bio

Charles Frohman is a lobbyist for the National Health Federation to restore informed consent, healer freedom, and end special interest capture of the bureaucracies. After graduating in 1988 with a Government B.A. from the College of William and Mary, he worked at the Cato Institute, and lobbied for a variety of nonprofits focusing on medical freedom, including Health Ventures for Pain Medicine Rights, Consumer Health Reform, and Natural Health. Since 1990, Mr. Frohman has helped politicians, trade associations, think tanks, nonprofits, and corporations innovate and raise their profile. Mr. Frohman is also connecting an innovative health plan with families, entrepreneurs and associations seeking empowerment of patients and healers.

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America Out Loud Pulse: Woke Antisemitism and the Response to Hamas Attack

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From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast: Woke Antisemitism and the Response to Hamas Attack with David L. Bernstein – https://www.americaoutloud.news/woke-antisemitism-and-response-to-hamas-attack/

Over the years, racist and other hate mongers faded from sight. Some saw the error of their ways, while others hid in the closet.  The recent rise in antisemitism in America is the canary in the coal mine for the growing acceptance of overt contempt for people who are not like you. They say courage is contagious – but so is contempt.

The war in Israel and the loss of many lives, including Americans, brings the end result of unbridled hatred to our front doors. The Chicago Black Lives Matter organization posted a since-deleted graphic seemingly celebrating Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis. Stanford, Columbia, and Harvard (among others) students cheered and clapped for Hamas and displayed signs of support from their dormitory windows.  Note, they were cheering for Hamas, a terrorist organization – not the residents of Gaza. (The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The European Union and other Western countries also consider it a terrorist organization.) It is the everyday residents who will suffer for the decision of their leadership to perform act inhumane barbarism against civilians in the name of seeking autonomy. Sadly, according to Hamas’ Charter, autonomy can only come by wiping Israel off the face of the Earth.

This divisive mindset is being fostered in all aspects of American life – all under the banner of equity. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Ebony alert – an Amber alert just for black women and children.  This is supposed to get more media attention but it just serves to divide us into separate groups.  But that’s the plan. Ever heard of divide and conquer?? It is an age-old tool of tyrants. We cannot let the dangerous path of modern day wokeism that fosters group biases continue to its logical end: a country perhaps irreparably divided.

Today (October 13th)  is the worldwide day of jihad – let’s hope that violence does not come to fruition. My guest has discussed on this show how the current “woke” movement is a breeding ground to antisemitism. We will discuss this in light of the current Middle East conflict.

Bio

David L. Bernstein is the founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV). The Institute supports viewpoint diversity, counters woke ideology in the Jewish community, and opposes novel forms of antisemitism emerging from woke ideology. He served as president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national umbrella for local Jewish advocacy. His recent book is Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews.

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