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Podcast - Health Determinants at Check-In

Podcast - Health Determinants at Check-In11 Dec 202517 min

Description

Why is the healthcare system demanding that doctors “fix” homelessness and food insecurity during a 15-minute visit, while refusing to fund the actual solutions?In this video, I will show you how our system has created a “social to clinical funnel” that forces doctors to answer for societal failures they cannot fix. This is the story of how a political problem became a clinical burden, driving the moral injury of modern medicine.

Chapter Markers

* 00:00 Intro

* 02:34 SDOH Enters the Clinic

* 06:51 The Words That Shift Blame

* 08:31 Policy vs Clinical Dilemma

* 09:29 Screening Without Solutions

* 11:35 Medical Abundance, Social Scarcity

* 14:31 The Choice We Refuse to Make

* 16:28 Outro

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