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Each month on Last Month In Healthcare, producer Nathaniel joins me to discuss the previous month's podcasts, headlines, and listener-submitted questions. This month, we’re also joined by Kyle Minick!

This episode is a bit different than usual as we focus on the many issues our physicians are dealing with in 2025, from AI to burnout to compensation. And we play a new game called the Commercial Conumdrum, where Kyle and I try to guess what drug a pharmaceutical commercial is advertising, just based on the B-Roll and editing of them.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - What's Going On With Our Doctors?

1:37 - Physician Stress Returns To Pandemic Levels

6:56 - Half Of US Healthcare Workers Plan To Switch Jobs

14:31- Physicians Working More, Compensated Less

15:38 - AI Scribes Reduce Physician Burnout

19:29 - Millions In US Live Where There Is No Telehealth/Internet

23:22 - Commercial Conundrum (this month's game)

34:20 - Self-Funded Review

41:36 - Ask Spencer Anything

Sources:

• https://youtu.be/XqrWU-BkKYc?si=E18CcR6cck7WaLcP
• https://youtu.be/bzYetKHGEv4?si=HHTFjFs1ZkFJRfq8
• https://youtu.be/LFif-BTYzys?si=04Z8ilxSis7SxKwS
• https://youtu.be/7M5LTlzot4o?si=HjQfsikvBlRQ6gSO
• https://youtu.be/ecq1k3VmEtE?si=yrZTF64P1pF-Hbly
• https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/dead-zone-sickest-counties-slow-internet-broadband-desert-health-care-provider-shortage/
• https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/workforce/117530
• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/over-half-us-healthcare-workers-plan-switch-jobs-by-next-year-survey-finds-2025-09-15/
• https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/physicians-working-more-reimbursement-falling-kaufman/757406/
• https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ai-scribes-reduce-physician-burnout-return-focus-to-the-patient/