Category: Opinions

  • The Herd and the Horizon

    The Herd and the Horizon

    How Good Medicine Gets Stuck — and Why That Matters in Southern Oregon Imagine a river that has been flowing the same way for forty years. Engineers built the levees, the towns grew around the banks, and everyone agrees the water flows correctly. Then someone notices a drought forming upstream. A few people say the…

  • 70% of Doctor Visits Have Mental Health Components—Here’s How La Clinica Addresses That

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    You visit your primary care doctor complaining of persistent fatigue and difficulty sleeping. Blood work comes back normal. Your doctor mentions stress might be a factor and suggests you “try to relax more.” You leave with no concrete help, your symptoms unchanged, wondering if you imagined the whole thing. This scenario plays out thousands of…

  • 70% of Doctor Visits Have Mental Health Components—Here’s How La Clinica Addresses That

    70% of Doctor Visits Have Mental Health Components—Here’s How La Clinica Addresses That

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    You visit your primary care doctor complaining of persistent fatigue and difficulty sleeping. Blood work comes back normal. Your doctor mentions stress might be a factor and suggests you “try to relax more.” You leave with no concrete help, your symptoms unchanged, wondering if you imagined the whole thing. This scenario plays out thousands of…

  • Physician-Owned and Proud: How AllCare’s B Corp Model Puts Community Before Profit

    When national headlines focus on healthcare consolidation—hospital systems acquiring physician practices, private equity buying clinics, insurers merging into ever-larger entities—it’s easy to assume this is simply how healthcare works now. But in Southern Oregon, a quieter and more instructive model has been operating for decades. AllCare Health, the coordinated care organization serving roughly 70,000 people…

  • Physician-Owned and Proud: How AllCare’s B Corp Model Puts Community Before Profit

    When national headlines focus on healthcare consolidation—hospital systems acquiring physician practices, private equity buying clinics, insurers merging into ever-larger entities—it’s easy to assume this is simply how healthcare works now. But in Southern Oregon, a quieter and more instructive model has been operating for decades. AllCare Health, the coordinated care organization serving roughly 70,000 people…

  • Are Drug Companies Worsening Health Inequities?

    Modern medicine has produced extraordinary breakthroughs. Diseases that were once fatal are now treatable. Conditions that once meant lifelong disability can be managed or even cured. Yet access to these advances remains deeply uneven. Across low- and middle-income countries, millions of people still cannot obtain essential medications—not because the science doesn’t exist, but because the…