HeyJaredThe Modern Heretic
Disruptor, healer, educator, board certified OBGYN, Ayurvedic herbalist, the Menoposse's official crunchy mama. Menopause brought me my chill, but my opinions are still quite spicy.
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Was it brave? I don’t think that’s the right question. (opens the original)
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Both sides of my family go gray early. So when I started going gray myself, in my thirties, it wasn’t a shock, it was just my turn. I was thirty-six and I didn’t start coloring immediately because I was curious what the gray would look like, but I tried it for about five minutes before I decided it was not for me. It made me feel old and washed out. I was a young mom and only 2 years into my medical practice. I was not naturally embracing this change at thirty-six the way I am now, not even clos
What One Woman Can Do On community as medicine, Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem, and a menopause society that changed everything (opens the original)
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At this point, the eulogies and remembrances have rolled in and the admonitions of “Keep our elder icons indoors and safe” have been delivered. The news cycle has moved on. But losing women who did so much for so long and seemed like they would always just be here still hits hard. Especially as I enter what I presume to be my final third, I have been sitting with this in a way I wasn’t prepared for.Thanks for reading The Modern Heretic! Subscribe for free to receive new
SERIES: THE BILL NO ONE WANTS TO PAY • PART 5 OF 5 The Revolution Will Be Relationship-Based (opens the original)
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What we are already building, why it works, and what it will take to scale itBy Dr. Suzanne GilbergI want to tell you about a patient.I will call her M. She is 48. She is an accomplished, disciplined professional in the prime of her career and someone who has navigated environments that required her to minimize and perform and push through - all qualities that served her professionally and cost her personally in ways she is only now beginning to understand.For three years before she found her wa
SERIES: THE BILL NO ONE WANTS TO PAY • PART 4 OF 5 The Most Expensive Failure in the World (opens the original)
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In 2024, the United States spent $14,885 per person on healthcare - the highest of any nation on earth. Switzerland was the second-highest spending country at $9,963 per capita, while the average for comparable wealthy nations, excluding the US, was $7,371 per person.So what are we buying?This is the only question that matters in this conversation. Because if spending more than any nation in history on healthcare produced a healthier population, we could debate the price. We could argue about ef
How to Herd Cats: A Field Guide to Supporting and Understanding Physician Entrepreneurs (opens the original)
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A physician builds something outside the system: a concierge practice, a direct-pay model, a course, a brand. Patients love it. Colleagues quietly envy it. Then she says something in public about her fees, her capacity, her exhaustion, and the internet decides she’s the villain of the week. Screenshots. Moral outrage about access. A defense that reads as tone-deaf no matter how she words it, and a chorus of quote-tweets from other clinicians who, of all people, should know exactly what it costs
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