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Physicians are not “burning out”.
Physicians are being “driven out.”
Call this crisis what it is… Abuse.
Try telling an emotionally abused spouse that they need “mindfulness training”.
You’ll get a mouthful of mindful.
Offer deep breathing classes to treat your toxic workplace.
Employees will hold their breath to leave.
Abuse cannot be treated with yoga.
The 400 physician suicides each year are not from weakness within physicians. The brightest and best are being poisoned by an “industry” that abuses them.
Calling this crisis “Burnout” is only a convenient way for the “industry” to deny its role in the destruction of a noble profession.
“Healthcare does not need to change, it’s these physicians that need to change,” says the Chief Innovation Officer. “They just need to accept their new role as pawns.”
The unsustainable cost of healthcare and the shortage of physicians is both the result of the corporatization of healthcare.
You are paying for administrators, mid-managers, and stockholders, not for doctors and nurses.
The conversion of the hard-earned title “physician” into a replaceable unit known as a “provider” has depersonalized and disempowered physicians.
This title change enabled corporations to take over healthcare, which has raised costs while dehumanizing its greatest resource.
The loss of physician joy has reduced the quality of those willing to sacrifice their youth to become a “provider”.
A “provider” is a replaceable unit.
A “physician” is a lifetime commitment.
Healthcare is no longer an art, a ministry, or a science.
“It’s just business.”
That is what is killing us.
Physicians are the money-printing machines for hospitals and insurance companies.
A physician’s value is determined by the number of their covered lives, not by the quality or satisfaction in those lives.
Don’t be fooled by Value-Based care.
It’s a fee-for-service wolf hidden inside corporate clothing.
Look at the surge in Wall Street IPOs. See the reasons CVS, Walgreens, and Google want to own physicians.
“We will control your cost,” says the CEO.
That’s BS. Their job is to raise costs and their stock price.
Physicians don’t need more mindfulness.
We need the same thing that our patients need… more Truth.
Amazing post by Guy Culpepper the CEO at Jefferson Physician Group, I had to share it.
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CEO/Co-Founder @ Oatmeal Health | AI Lung Cancer Screening | Almost Became a Doctor | Engineer | Follow to Share What I’ve Learned Along the Way
I help patients get the care they need earlier, preventing late-stage cancer.
That’s been the throughline across three companies and almost 20 years in healthcare. At ReferralMD, we fixed broken referral networks so patients didn’t fall through the cracks. At Oatmeal Health, it’s lung cancer: building the diagnostic and screening infrastructure so the 85% of cases caught too late get caught early instead.
Today as CEO of Oatmeal Health, I lead a team embedding AI into radiology workflows to turn routine lung CT scans into reimbursable cancer risk assessments. We partner with FQHCs to reach underserved communities, and with health systems and payers to make early detection economically sustainable. Think HeartFlow or Cleerly, but for lungs.
Between companies, I advised at Techstars and Plug and Play, mentoring founders building in digital health. That experience shaped how I think about what separates companies that ship from companies that stall: distribution, reimbursement, and clinical trust, not just technology.
I’m a CancerX alumnus, a 3x healthcare founder, and someone who believes the biggest problems in cancer aren’t scientific. They’re operational.
We’re hiring mission-driven builders at Oatmeal Health. If you want to work on something that matters, reach out.
When I’m not working, I’m traveling, mentoring, and keeping up with one very energetic husky. 🐾
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Millions of patients get less care because of who they are, where they live, or how they look. I’m fighting to change that. CEO @OatmealHealth, a startup built for the underserved. The Oatmeal Bite: intel for clinicians, investors, and advocates.
Jonathan Govette
CEO of Oatmeal Health
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