Podcast with the Glaucomfleckens
NDMA had the opportunity to be featured on Dr. Glaucomflecken's podcast. The Knock Knock Podcast Series dives into the highs and lows of healthcare. In this podcast, Dr. Heitkamp and Courtney dig into the importance of medical associations and why physicians should become members.
The podcast talks about why doctors often feel hesitant to get involved, why advocacy doesn’t actually require that much time, and how telling one patient’s story can change policy faster than a stack of statistics. We also get into recording patients, AI charting consent, scope-of-practice battles, rural medicine realities, and why state medical associations might be one of the last places healthcare progress is still happening.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the state of healthcare, this episode is your reminder that wins are still happening… just closer to home than you think.
Takeaways:
- Advocacy isn’t Politics: It’s education, storytelling, and showing up when legislation affects patient care.
- State-Level Wins Are Real: Prior authorization reform, hospital worker protection, and evidence-based vaccine policy actually passed.
- Stories Beat Statistics: One patient story can change a law faster than a spreadsheet.
- Modern Threats to Trust: Recording doctors, AI charting, and social media are reshaping clinical encounters.
- Getting Involved Is Easier Than You Think: Sometimes it’s just joining your state medical association and speaking up once.