⚠️ SICKCARE — Part IV: The Clinician’s Dilemma (Healing Inside a System That Depends on Recurrence)
Most clinicians didn’t enter healthcare to manage recurrence. They came to help people heal. Yet many now practice inside systems that reward throughput, compliance, and return visits more than resolution. This reflection explores the quiet dilemma clinicians face—trying to do meaningful healing work within structures that depend on patients not fully getting better.
Most clinicians didn’t enter healthcare to manage recurrence. They came to help people heal. Yet many now practice inside systems that reward throughput, compliance, and return visits more than resolution. This reflection explores the quiet dilemma clinicians face — trying to do meaningful healing work within structures that depend on patients not fully getting better.
💲SICKCARE — Part II: The Invisible Subscription (How Chronic Illness Became a Business Model)
Subscriptions are supposed to be optional. But in modern healthcare, chronic illness often functions like one—quietly recurring, difficult to cancel, and financially stabilizing for the system that manages it. This reflection explores how care pathways, incentives, and expectations can transform long-term illness into a business model—and what that means for agency, healing, and trust.
Subscriptions are supposed to be optional. But in modern healthcare, chronic illness often functions like one—quietly recurring, difficult to cancel, and financially stabilizing for the system that manages it. This reflection explores how care pathways, incentives, and expectations can transform long-term illness into a business model—and what that means for agency, healing, and trust.
🔄 SICKCARE — Part I: Why Healthcare Rewards Recurrence More Than Healing
Healthcare speaks fluently about healing, prevention, and outcomes. But beneath the language lies a quieter engine—one that rewards volume, recurrence, and dependency more than resolution. This first reflection in the SICKCARE series explores the uncomfortable gap between what the system says and how it actually operates, and why understanding that gap is essential for anyone seeking real healing.
Healthcare speaks fluently about healing, prevention, and outcomes. But beneath the language lies a quieter engine—one that rewards volume, recurrence, and dependency more than resolution. This first reflection in the SICKCARE series explores the uncomfortable gap between what the system says and how it actually operates, and why understanding that gap is essential for anyone seeking real healing.