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Brian Klepper

Charlotte
As seen in: KevinMD.com, Missoulian, The Health Care Blog (THCB), Healthcare Finance News, American Journal of Managed Care, BenefitsPRO Magazine, Employee Benefit News, North State Journal, The Podcast by KevinMD
I am an health care analyst, advisor and commentator. Principal of Worksite Health Advisors and Moderator of the Healthcare Benefits Hackers Listserv.
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Are doctors' emotions fueling the opioid crisis?

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By Brian Lynch, Matt McCord, Brian Klepper, Ronald A. Zent
| KevinMD.com
It should be obvious by now, but somehow it is not: Physicians are not immune to the same emotions that govern human behavior everywhere else. We like to imagine that our white coats and years of training somehow grant us a protective immunity to fear, to shame, to the raw surge of emotion that can stop us in our tracks. The truth is, physicians and other medical professionals are just as subject to the power of affect as anyone.
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The opioid crisis in wealthy zip codes

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By Carlos N. Hernandez-Torres, Matt McCord, Brian Klepper, Ronald A. Zent
| KevinMD.com
To be honest, I never imagined myself treating A-list celebrities and professional athletes in Manhattan. As a young physician in Juárez, Mexico, I spent my earliest years working in community clinics and even pharmacies on the city’s impoverished peripheries. Back then, the idea of practicing at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States (let alone as a pain management specialist) was unthinkable.
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Why the system is collapsing from within

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By Kristen Cline, Richard A. Lawhern, Matt McCord, Brian Klepper
| KevinMD.com
The Pitt was compelling TV. As an emergency nurse educator for a Stanford campus in Northern California, there is one thing that is required viewing for my new graduate nurses: The Pitt. The ambitious series did an admirable job portraying the complex world of the emergency department. The procedures were clinically accurate. The spectrum of patients and social issues was nuanced and believable.
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