Hello, my name is Shawn.

I have Medicare Obsession Syndrome (MOS).

When I told my wife, she laughed harder than expected.

Like most things, everyone knows your problems before you do.

I think other doctors may have the same obsession.

The 12th step says, “Having had a spiritual awakening…we tried to carry this message to [others].”

Medicare Obsession Syndrome

Medicare Obsession Syndrome is not burnout, but can lead to it.

Burnout is a “state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress”.

Burnout often comes in jobs where workers feel “overworked and undervalued” with little sense of control.

Dr. Pamela Wible says physicians are experiencing abuse, not burnout.

Medicare Obsession Syndrome is an unrelenting, all encompassing, life consuming, every-waking-minute addiction to thinking about medical politics. Continue reading “Addicted to Medical Politics – Medicare Obsession Syndrome”

A dead Syrian toddler broke our hearts in 2015. He sparked a wave of compassionate activism.

A crying toddler at the US-Mexico border crushed us in 2018 and sparked a new wave.

Crying children make us cry; they move us to help. And so they should.

But most crying children go unnoticed and never warrant a peep from media.   

We learned later that the border-child had not lost its mother. Mom was there. But this was a special crying child. She was a signal, a beacon.

This child must be listened to. She represented a more important fact, even though the picture did not show the trauma we assumed it did. Continue reading “Sad Stories Make Bad Policy – Activism”

Voters decimated the Liberal party leaving them with only 7 seats last night.

Voters exercised democracy and kicked the bums out.

Except they weren’t all bums. Many were smart people doing stupid things.

Maybe the bums were evil? This is wrong also.

We miss the point by blaming Liberal defeat on ignorance or malevolence. Accusations blind us.

The point of history is not to see how crazy and evil people were before us. That just makes us knowledgeable and arrogant.

History only teaches us if we can imagine making the same mistakes ourselves. Continue reading “What Can We Learn from the Liberal Circus?”