The Golden Scalpel Files — Episode 5
The audio companion to Sunday's rural surgery dispatch. What it looks like to show up in a community that needs a surgeon — and can't find one. Five minutes.
Rural America Needs Surgeons. I Showed Up. Here’s What I Found
Nearly 60 million Americans live in rural communities with fewer than 5 surgeons per 100,000 people. I showed up. Here is what I found — and what it means for the Independent Physician Model.
Resident Corner: Order First — The Menu You Were Never Handed
The Dinner That Nobody Planned arrived course by course. Here is the menu — so the next one is yours to order.
The Dinner Nobody Scheduled...
A Friday handoff. An impromptu dinner. A surgeon with a look on his face, a contract restructuring nobody warned me about, and a ninety-day clock that belongs to me — not them.
The Golden Scalpel Files — Episode 2
Two kinds of physicians in medicine right now — the ones who think they have two options, and the ones who've figured out there are five. The manifesto behind the Independent Physician Model.
The Manifesto
Two kinds of physicians in medicine right now — the ones who think they have two options, and the ones who've figured out there are five. The system wasn't built for you. Build the one that is.
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Five minutes. Three articles. One question — what is the system asking you to give up?
