Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Live Available 8/2/22 from Ulysses Press.
Today I am announcing preorders of my book Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor ' s Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life. This is a moment of great pride for me as well as hope.Pride because I truly believe that this book is the closest I can come to creating a true and succinct representation of my contribution. This is me unfettered. This is my legacy. I am humbled at the possibility and the role you all have played in bringing it to life.And hope. Not hope that I will make a lot of money (book writing is a horrible way to do that and I have enough money). Not hope that I will become...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - July 1, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Live Available 8/2/22 from Ulysses Press.
Today I am announcing preorders of my book Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life. This is a moment of great pride for me as well as hope.Pride because I truly believe that this book is the closest I can come to creating a true and succinct representation of my contribution. This is me unfettered. This is my legacy. I am humbled at the possibility and the role you all have played in bringing it to life.And hope. Not hope that I will make a lot of money (book writing is a horrible way to do that and I have enough money). Not hope that I will become f...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - July 1, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
The GoldiDocs Phenomena
The world consists of three types of doctor. Three types of doctors who will grace your presence on any given stay in the hospital, foray into the nursing home, or visit to the office. You might have never given these archetypes a specific name, but they are immediately recognizable. I'm not talking about medical knowledge or clinical savvy. I'm not pointing to differences in education or training. Bedside manner. We're talking about bedside manner people! Dr. Too GrumpyShe storms into the room with her mobile phone glued to her ear. Or better yet, a blue tooth device. She spits...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 18, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
The GoldiDocs Phenomena
The world consists of three types of doctor. Three types of doctors who will grace your presence on any given stay in the hospital, foray into the nursing home, or visit to the office. You might have never given these archetypes a specific name, but they are immediately recognizable. I'm not taking about medical knowledge or clinical savvy. I'm not pointing to differences in education or training. Bedside manner. We're talking about bedside manner people! Dr. Too GrumpyShe storms into the room with her mobile phone glued to her ear. Or better yet, a blue tooth device. She spits ...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 18, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
What's Been Left Out
Would You Do It Again?Over on my other blog, every Monday, I write Good Decision/Bad Decision posts. The idea is to dissect a decision, usually financial, from various viewpoints. Nothing we do in life is truly good or bad, there are always consequences. This week, I am going to tackle something a little more personal. Should I have gone to medical school?This question is fraught with emotional pitfalls. How could it not be? From the moment I can remember, I have wanted to be a doctor. It has been with me for every breath and aspiration. Now at the age of 44, Almost twenty years...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 14, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
What's Been Left Out
Would You Do It Again?Over on myother blog, every Monday, I writeGood Decision/Bad Decision posts. The idea is to dissect a decision, usually financial, from various viewpoints. Nothing we do in life is truly good or bad, there are always consequences. This week, I am going to tackle something a little more personal. Should I have gone to medical school?This question is fraught with emotional pitfalls. How could it not be? From the moment I can remember, I have wanted to be a doctor. It has been with me for every breath and aspiration. Now at the age of 44, Almost twenty years into m...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 14, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR ' sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can ' t even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work f...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR'sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can't even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work flow,...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
That Which I Miss Most
EmpathyMy eyes glare across the table. I can feel his shoulders hunch forward as he subconsciously recoils in preparation for my response. The room becomes thick. Nurses, social workers, a chaplain. Everyone waiting for the doctor.Not just the doctor, but me. Sixteen years out of residency. Battle scarred and warn by PTSD. The images from residency still so clear. A gasp, a gurgle, flat line. Wailing family members, angry nurses, and an uncompromising chief. They died so much more easily back then. The young, the old, the unwanted, and the uncared for. The academi...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - March 24, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
That Which I Miss Most
EmpathyMy eyes glare across the table. I can feel his shoulders hunch forward as he subconsciously recoils in preparation for my response. The room becomes thick. Nurses, social workers, a chaplain. Everyone waiting for the doctor.Not just the doctor, but me. Sixteen years out of residency. Battle scarred and warn by PTSD. The images from residency still so clear. A gasp, a gurgle, flat line. Wailing family members, angry nurses, and an uncompromising chief. They died so much more easily back then. The young, the old, the unwanted, and the uncared for. The academi...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - March 24, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Something Different
And the dam breaks Because it always does. As the rebellious seas churn and the indelible cracks breach at the base, a web of infirmity spreads it ' s lacey tendrils unloosening the mooring of a once sturdy structure. The cackling of unhinged cement, the prepubescent rejoinder to the whoosh as the frothy waters churn past what once was solid, absolving the absurdity of insincere firmness. That which was an obstacle, now a conduit. The mark of the trainee. The years of suffering, and sweating, and staring down disaster with a stiff upper lip and trembling twenty-four hour knees. The abuse....
Source: In My Humble Opinion - March 22, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Something Different
And the dam breaks Because it always does. As the rebellious seas churn and the indelible cracks breach at the base, a web of infirmity spreads it's lacey tendrils unloosening the mooring of a once sturdy structure. The cackling of unhinged cement, the prepubescent rejoinder to the whoosh as the frothy waters churn past what once was solid, absolving the absurdity of insincere firmness. That which was an obstacle, now a conduit. The mark of the trainee. The years of suffering, and sweating, and staring down disaster with a stiff upper lip and trembling twenty-four hour knees. The abuse.&n...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - March 22, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Swindled
You've been swindled. At least that's the conclusion I've come to. It wasn't the hucksters or the snake oil salesman. It wasn't big business, big medicine, or some greedy hospital administrator. It was most likely pharma with a large dose of helping from your doctor. Plain and simple.I've learned quite a bit being a hospice medical director. Covering dozens of new admissions a week has given me much insight into doctor prescribing habits. Often it is my job to decide with meds are necessary and covered by hospice, which are necessary but not covered by hospice, and which are useless.Do yo...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - June 2, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Swindled
You've been swindled. At least that's the conclusion I've come to. It wasn't the hucksters or the snake oil salesman. It wasn't big business, big medicine, or some greedy hospital administrator. It was most likely pharma with a large dose of helping from your doctor. Plain and simple.I've learned quite a bit being a hospice medical director. Covering dozens of new admissions a week has given me much insight into doctor prescribing habits. Often it is my job to decide with meds are necessary and covered by hospice, which are necessary but not covered by hospice, and which are useless.Do yo...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - June 2, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
And We Must Breathe
Ask any parent. Having children is a supreme act of faith. This revelation does not come easy to one who is particularly uncomfortable kneeling at unfamiliar alters. It hurts my knees. Yet there is no more durable truism.It starts with birth. The awareness of our own unique helplessness is overwhelming. We are a slave to our children ' s genetics, environment, and wholly uncontrollable luck. We skitter to command a million details to defray the constant anxiety of that which can ' t be governed. We worry, lose sleep, and panic till the day we feebly shrug our shoulders and accept.&nb...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - May 17, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
