The Goldfinch Health Blog
A 19th Century Physician & 21st Century Healthcare
What a 19th Century Physician Can Teach Us About 21st Century Healthcare While excitement and optimism largely define a trip to the hospital for the delivery of a new baby today, a different emotion accompanied a visit to an 1840’s maternity ward. Fear. At that time, one in ten mothers would die before she left the hospital. Meanwhile, women who received care from non-physician midwives experienced much lower mortality. But why?…
The 4-Hour Workweek Approach to Employee Healthcare
The 4-Hour Workweek Approach to Employee Healthcare “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss has spent years on the New York Times bestseller list by selling a provocative idea—maybe we’re all working too hard? One of the most intriguing concepts covered by Ferris in the book is the effectiveness of combining the Pareto principle with Parkinson’s law. You probably already know the Pareto principle as the 80/20 rule. In other words,…
The Role of Employers in the Opioid Epidemic
Lake Wobegon and the Role of Employers in the Opioid Epidemic Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion made famous a quaint place known as Lake Wobegon. In this fictional town it was claimed “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”. Recently, what’s come to be known as the Wobegon effect—a tendency to overestimate one’s achievements and capabilities—has taken hold in…
The Inspiration that Drives Goldfinch Health
Our Inspiration Why Goldfinch Health? Why attempt to transform something as complex as the surgical experience? This is why. We’ve witnessed first-hand the vast difference between high-quality, advanced surgical experiences and lower-quality, outdated experiences. We have watched family members and loved ones undergo unnecessarily-invasive procedures and long recoveries. We have seen complications of the status quo, not the least of which is the growth of persistent opioid use into an epidemic….
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