Leading a Quality Improvement Revolution, with Stephanie Mercado
Quality in health care has been a hot topic for over 20 years, ever since the landmark report, To Err is Human, which declared that up to 100,000 people die …
Overcoming the Limitations of Medicine with True Palliative Care, with Dr. Tim Ihrig
Palliative care, and the role it plays in health value, is difficult for many people to understand because it runs so contra to the linear algorithm that is allopathic medicine. Curative care – played …
Building a Legacy of Care for Seniors, with Carrie Coumbs
In health care, we excel in addressing problems in the human body that are fixable. However, with regard to the two main un-fixables in life — aging and dying— we often inflict therapies on patients that shorten lives or increase suffering …
Working Together to Care as One, with Dr. David Nace
How does an organization have a banner year in 2019, start 2020 with additional momentum, and then continue to grow despite COVID-19 making them change their whole approach? Because they …
Bonus Episode: Crisis in the Rio Grande Valley: COVID-19 and Hurricane Hanna
The Rio Grande Valley, located in the southernmost tip of Texas along the US-Mexico border, has become a new epicenter for COVID-19 over the last month. Death rates are also …