3/7/2026 Cat loved the water. The crashing of the waves. The vastness. The calm. The way the light reflects, bounces, creates patterns. The colors. The ocean. The foggy haze. Lake Michigan. The Florida Keys. The Caribbean and the Aegean Seas. Sunrises. Sunsets. The sound of the waves. The smell. The rising and fall, the froth, … More Ripples and Reflections
4/27/2025 A fellow physician’s post this morning caught my eye. Thank you Dr. Mary Leung for sharing. This is an incredibly important topic & hits close to home. Clarity, honesty, compassion, truthfulness, & kindness are so very important, throughout life, but also at life’s edge. Witnessing a loved one go through treatment for a terminal … More Honesty, Truth, Kindness at the Edge of Life
12/8/23 2 words changed the trajectory of the past 2 years. 2 intensive chemotherapy protocols. 2 time PanCAN PurpleStride Grand Club member and Team Captain for Team Cat King Crusaders/TeamCat. 2 research centers visited for information about clinical trials. 2 personal loved ones diagnosed; one continues to push on, and one now swings and dances … More 2 years
My thoughts on Stark Laws, Anti-Kickbacks, & Hospital Ownership Bans. 10/22/23 Wow. It’s all about control. Designating what physicians can/cannot do in terms of business. An attempt to control ethical decision making by some of THE MOST ETHICAL PROFESSIONALS ALIVE. I think puppeteering policy shapers forgot – or perhaps never actually understood/realized – what it … More What if PHYSICIANS led the future of healthcare?
1/17/2023 Today is the day. Over a year in the making! Today is the day I became a best selling author! And the BEST part?!? I’m one of over 40+ physicians that became best selling authors today! Together. All of us. Lifting each other up to succeed. Each of us is a member of the … More Made for More
This entry is inspired by Dr. Adam Harrison’s social media posts today, 11/18/22. Bullying. Belittling. Making one feel worthless, unvalued, not enough. Constantly berating & focusing on deficits rather than helping to improve & recognizing what’s done well PRIOR to pointing out potential areas needing improvement. Being made to feel as if anything & everything … More Courage to Change: Become an Anti-Bully
10/2/22 I’ve been a physician for 26 years. I graduated medical school in 1996. I’ve lived through and witnessed physicians go from “respected full of autonomy leaders” to discouraged “data entry clerk providers”, brainwashed into a purposeful learned helplessness – intentionally created by healthcare’s profit hungry corporate cartel. Once respected, now belittled. Once autonomous, now … More My EntreMD Story
In todays world we face so many pressures.To be better.To do more, often with less, and less. Time pressures.Work pressures.Home pressures.Family pressures.Childcare pressures.Financial pressures.Health – physical & mental – pressures. We are constantly putting others first, playing catch up, tackling seemingly never ending to do lists, and the pressure builds and builds and builds until … More Stronger Together
7/1/2022 July 1st, 1996, was my first official day as a general surgery resident at Wayne State University/DMC: Neurosurgery my first rotation. I was scrubbed in, operating with the fellow, on an anterior cervical laminectomy. He finished the majority of the case, looked me in the eye, and said, “Ok you close”, broke scrub, and … More I Was A July 1st Intern
By Marion Mass, M.D. and Christina Dewey, M.D. Would you like to lower healthcare costs, restore quality and improve choice? Yes? Then you MUST learn about Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). If you look on the Fortune 500 top 12 companies, you will find three companies who own PBM. Dig deeper, and you’ll discover these companies … More PBM: Unmask the Villains of Healthcare’s High Costs