Jul 27, 2023

Frail elderly patients are among the most expensive and worst-served populations in American healthcare — and, as Larry Bauer puts it, everybody has a story about a family member who didn’t “finish well.” In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Bauer, longtime CEO of the Family Medicine Education...

Jul 20, 2023

Does Comprehensive Primary Care Reduce Patient Access? With Vivek Garg, MD, MBA (Summer Shorts 3)

Answering the Access Objection to Comprehensive Primary Care. Summer Shorts 3.

Does making primary care more comprehensive necessarily mean seeing fewer patients? In this summer short, Stacey Richter talks with Vivek Garg,...

Jul 13, 2023

Why a Transformed Primary Care Practice Never Went Back, With Scott Conard, MD (Summer Shorts 2)

What Happened When Staff Tried to Undo a PCP Practice’s Transformation. Summer Shorts 2.

When a new practice manager tried to reintroduce a transformed primary care clinic’s old, overflowing-waiting-room way of...

Jul 6, 2023

Why Hospital Antitrust Cases Are So Rare, With Brennan Bilberry (Summer Shorts 1)

3 Reasons Antitrust Lawsuits Against Consolidated Hospital Systems Are So Uncommon. Summer Shorts 1.

If hospital consolidation is as anticompetitive as critics say, why aren’t more health systems getting sued over it? In this...