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Healing is possible
If you are a clinician and you are unhappy, in pain, suicidal, confused, disillusioned, jaded, bored, exhausted, cynical, burned out, morally injured, or simply curious and ready for the next stage of your growth, I see you, I honor you, and I welcome you here. I promise I won't waste your time. I won't give you half-baked truths about what is happening in healthcare and what we have to do about it. What I will do is tell you three levels of truth about what is happening in healthcare and in your career. I will be honest and, for better or worse, will not sugarcoat things, because you deserve the truth.
Anoop Kumar, MD, MM
Levels of Truth in Healthcare
Level 1
What most know + most say
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There are conflicts of interest in every area of healthcare that make money on disease
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Healthcare costs in the U.S. are unreasonably high and unpredictable across healthcare facilities
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Americans spend far more per capita on healthcare than other countries
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Healthcare provides an essential service and is especially good at helping people in acute emergencies, while generally managing chronic conditions without curing them
Level 2
What some know + some say
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The physician suicide rate in the U.S. is twice the rate of the general population
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Over 4 in 10 nurses are moderately to severely anxious. Over 1 in 4 nurses are severely depressed.
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The evidence of evidence-based medicine is often compromised to the extent that we cannot easily tell when a study is valid or not
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In medical school, we do not study health. We study disease. We actually don't know what health, wholeness, and human potential truly are
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Only about half of physicians trust healthcare leaders and executives
Level 3
What few know + few say
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Medical training divides the mind from the body without scientific consideration while seeming scientfic, offering a machine-like view of the human being
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Burnout, moral injury, and clinician suicide are actually evidence of an outdated medical science stuck in a classical model of human anatomy, without consideration of quantum science
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Psychedelics, spiritual insight, and near-death experiences are associated with dramatic healing that opens the door to a radical understanding of consciousness, mind, and body
Level 1 truths
are generally accepted.
Level 2 truths make the room uncomfortable.
Level 3 truths are radical. They change your life.
FACT
If you understand and assimilate Level 3 truths, you will start healing and change your life. How do I know? It happened to me.
Start here
1. Learn a better way to do an H&P, clinical assessment, and plan of care.
2. Learn an updated, comprehensive approach to human anatomy.
3. Re-think the mind-body connection
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Medical Schools Ignore the Nature of Consciousness at Great Cost
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A Framework Beyond Biopsychosocial Medicine
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Medical Science is Due for a Software Patch
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What are the Three Minds?
4. Re-consider "mental illness"
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Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness
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My conversation with a fellow physician about depression
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Are we really in a "mental health pandemic?"
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