Stop it! Didn't you get the SOS?

The US siloed, sick, sick care system of systems (SOS) is getting sicker by the day. Medical education, training, and development is lagging. We have the worst rated system compared to other industrialized economies. The treatments have failed and prescribing the latest shiny new objects , like AI, won't fix it.

We need to pull the plug on "the way we've always done things" and learn from our mistakes.

Where to start:

• Stop the Doctor, Medical School and Hospital Beauty Pageants
• End MCATS
• Rethink the future of the academic medical center
• Change how we admit medical students
• Redefine the new triple threat
• Dump academic medical center promotion and tenure
• Kill fee for service medicine
• Create the next gen EMR
• Figure out what business medical schools are in
• Fire most basic science teachers
• Terminate MD/MBA programs
• Teach forbidden subjects like the business of medicine, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Medical school Forbidden Courses:
• 1. Personal financial planning
• 2. The Business of Medicine
• 3. How to survive medical school and not wind up being cynical
• 4. The Hidden Curriculum
• 5. How to Build a Morale Injury Urgent Care Center
• 6. Sick Care Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• 7. Future proofing your clinical career
• 8. What to do when your white coat gets the pink slip
• 9. How to sell
• 10. What happened to DEI: The old white doctor perspective
• 11. Red medicine v blue medicine
• 12. Does anyone have a work ethic anymore?
• Publicly report surgeon and surgical team outcomes
• Stop the tribal warfare
• Expose the dark underbelly of medicine
• Save private practice
• Fix workforce pipeline leaks and give them exit ramps

The system's vital signs are deteriorating and our inability to pay is bankrupting it. It's time to unlearn.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs on Substack