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Ep. 59: Special episode from House Call & Mobile Vet Virtual conference! Hooman & Veterinary Private Practice: What Does a Revival Of Prohibitions On the Corporate Practice Of Medicine Mean for Veterinary Medicine?; Meet Dr. Mitch Li, MD

Ep. 59: Special episode from House Call & Mobile Vet Virtual conference! Hooman & Veterinary Private Practice: What Does a Revival Of Prohibitions On the Corporate Practice Of Medicine Mean for Veterinary Medicine?; Meet Dr. Mitch Li, MD

House Call Vet Café Podcast

April 9, 202444m 6sExplicit

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Show Notes

Mitchell Louis Judge Li, MD is a board-certified emergency physician and founder of the advocacy group, Take Medicine Back, dedicated to taking the profession of medicine back to its ethical roots from corporate interests. Dr. Li has been an invited speaker representing physicians to the Federal Trade Commission on the firsthand effects of mergers and acquisitions on healthcare, has spoken as a panelist at the Capitol Forum's Conference on Healthcare Competition, and currently serves as the only physician-advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's committee on healthcare financialization. Dr. Li earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2013 and completed his emergency medicine residency at St. John Hospital in Detroit, MI in 2017. He currently practices emergency medicine full-time. Dr. Li is also the founder of a Direct Physician Care (aka Direct Primary Care) practice.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Moral injury & compassion fatigue in human medicine (like in veterinary medicine)
  • How "profits over patients" hurts everyone
  • What is the Corporate Practice of Medicine?
  • How corporations bypass prohibition of the "Corporate Practice of Medicine"
  • How this relates to veterinarians.

Links and Resources:

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Music:

In loving memory of Dr. Steve Weinberg.

Intro and outro guitar music was written, performed, and recorded by house call veterinarian Dr. Steve Weinberg.

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This podcast is also available in video on our House Call Vet Cafe YouTube channel