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Adventures In Healthcare Reform with Fred Malphurs

Fred Malphurs spent thirty-seven years working for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is the retired CEO of the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Healthcare System in Gainesville, Florida, and a retired Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Having transferred thirteen times, been on three long-term details and served in the VA Central Office in Washington on three different occasions, Fred has been exposed to the inner working of health care delivery as well as the political administration in the executive branch. He is the author of My Life in the VA: Lessons in Leadership.

His career spans from the impact of returning veterans from the Viet Nam War to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the course of serving in the VA, Fred received numerous awards during his career, including the two highest: Presidential Rank, at both the meritorious and distinguished levels. Medical Centers under his direction have twice received the VA’s highest award for quality, the prestigious Carey award. As a network director, the network under Fred’s leadership twice received the VA’s highest award for quality, the Kizer award, in addition to being recognized many times for having the best practices in a wide variety of administrative and clinical areas. He has published in health care periodicals, given media interviews and appeared on television in the course of his career.

Married, he has six grown children, two cats, and a Chihuahua

Archived Shows

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A Lot More in Healthcare Needs Reforming

  Fred gives examples of what's wrong in our current healthcare crazy quilt, patchwork of healthcare purveyors, providers, and the patients who are on the receiving end. Bariatric surgical banding is recommended at lower body mass weights by (guess wh...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Further Commentary on the sorry state of US healthcare

  Fred talks about Atul Gawande. best selling author of books on healthcare, the latest of which is The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande states that 40 % of the US population doesn't receive healthcare and the US is closing in on spending 20% of its entire e...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Week 1049

  Week 1049

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Fred Talks About Healthcare Reform, ER's and More!

  Focused more than ever on the need to improve healthcare and healthcare reform, Fred talks about the need to keep the current law and strengthen it to get lower costs, create a true high performance health care system, and a consistently high quality s...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Raves, but More Rants Re: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  Fred talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly in current health care debate. Teed off by all the misinformation, threats, and ignorance up on display nationally in the recent elections, he tells how the good of the Patient Protection and Affordable...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Information Technology for Healthcare and YOU!

  Health care providers have wasted billions of dollars in buying health care software, computer systems, consulting contracts, and most don't have a complete electronic medical record, Chris Couie tells us why and how that effects your health insuran...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Been in an Auto Accident or Know Someone Who Has? Listen UP!

  Dr. David Sussman, Orthopedic Surgeon, talks about the health and legal considerations for those involved in auto accidents in an entertaining and enlightening way. The dangers of disability compensation lead some victims into a disability focused lif...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – What Everyone Should Know About Women's Breasts

  Jan Janzen, author of Breast Health Exposed, talks about what every woman must know about her breasts. Jan says that healthy breasts don't get cancer. Jan is a speaker, educator and entrepreneur whose mission is to eradicate breast cancer. She talks...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Healthcare: Who is in charge? Nobody

  Fred Malphurs talks about the miscellaneous factoids that reveal a compelling story about his three categories of factoids: 1. No one is actually in charge, 2. It's not that the right hand knoweth no what the left is doing. Its an octopus and none of t...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Protect Your Privacy AND Take Control of Your Med Info!

  Jacqueline Klosek, attorney and author, talks about how people can protect their privacy and security while taking control of their medical information. She tells us about the risks and advantages of personal health records. Health privacy is put at ri...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Who's Advocating For Your Health? Check out caremanager.org

  Tina Lipscomb, RN, tells us all about case management. Case managers, Registered Nurses or Social Workers, coordinate care for patients across the spectrum of healthcare, including acute, chronic, long term care, hospice, palliative care, home care, et...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Unbreak Your Health: Show me the Alternatives!

  Alan Smith, author of Unbreak Your Health: Your Map to the World of Complimentary & Alternative Therapies, talks about his own journey to better health. Told by Mayo Clinic specialists that there was nothing they could do for his pain, Alan refused to ...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Sick of Doctors?: Then Do Something About it!

  Lorene Burkhart's book, Sick of Doctors? is a prescription for patient empowerment. Lorene discusses what she has learned from her own patient/physician experiences and offers valuable resources for building your own personal health care record and wan...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – David Blender, Hypnotherapist, Puts Us Into a Trance!

  David Blender, an accredited hypnotherapist, talks about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Clinical hypnosis is used to reduce anxiety, eliminate chronic pain, improve performance in competitive sports, increase confidence and creativity, reduce fear of denti...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Diagnosis: Cancer; What's the caregiver to do?

  Joni James Aldrich talks about lifelines to W-I-N against cancer. Joni's book, The Saving of Gordon, tell the story of her husband's battle against cancer, the mistakes made, the lessons learned and her resolve to provide others with the tools needed ...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Dr. Ira Williams tells us why US health care system is MISDIAGNOSED!

  Dr. Ira Williams is interviewed. Dr. Ira's Book, Misdiagnosed: Why Current Health Care Change is Malpractice offers keen insights into the failures of regulation and control of the quality of health care. Dr. Ira thinks that the US health care system h...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Vicki Kind, bioethicist, talks CAREGIVER'S MAKING CHOICES

  Vicki Kind talks about the caregiver's path to compassionate decision making. The choices made should reflect the patient's wishes for the kind of care and caring that they want for themselves when a high level of care is needed such as after a stroke ...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – The VP of the diabetesresource.com details its benefits

  Landileigh Nelson, the Vice President of the diabetesresource.com talks about the benefits of the on-line, one stop shopping, information loaded website. The all encompassing resource offers a free newsletter. Nelson talks about her diabetic condition...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Taking Care of An Aging Relative? Looooong Term Care!

  eCareDiary.com is a one stop shopping center designed to to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy for caregivers. John Mills and Susan Baida are the co-founders with their own experiences as caregivers that led them to create eCare...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Author Christian Wilde Tells All About Stem Cell Therapies

  Christian Wilde discusses stem cell therapies and the ongoing FDA trials for catastrophic diseases like heart disease, heart failure, MS, diabetes,stroke, back injury and more. His books, Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair and Hidden Causes of Heart Attac...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Dennis Torkko of Santal Solutions talks about biotech

  Dennis Torkko, President and Co-Founder of Santal Solutions, talks about OmSanA, the leading dual-purpose dietary supplement for maintaining both blood sugar and cholesterol levels. OmSanA is clinically proven and is a next-generation dietary supplemen...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A Chiropractor, Dr. Mark Cochran, Talks About Wellness & MORE

  Dr. Cochran's book, Oby's Wisdom: A Caveman's Simple Guide to Health and Well-being, gives the advice that we all have the ability to heal from within, and provides a fresh, sensible and practical approach to nutrition, exercise, wellness, spirituality...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Dr. Flyer Talks About A Better Model for Health Care

  Dr. Brian Flyer, an internist in private practice in Los Angeles, talks about how he changed his practice from an HMO driven factory-like assembly line to a practice dedicated to a limited number of patients who have direct access to him, on-time and u...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Telemedicine Delivers Physician Care Anytime, Anywhere

  Glenn Hammack, President and Board Chair of NuPhysicia, talks about telemedicine. NuPhysicia operates telemedicine methods developed and proven through serving hundreds of thousands of patients around the world. The technology uses face-to-face telemed...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Everything that Physicians Do Has a Cost/Benefit Ratio!

  Melvin Kirschner, MD, explores the issues and controversies of medical practice in his new book, All Medicines are Poison. A retired family physician, Dr. Kirschner's title is taken from his first medical school class in pharmacology. The professor sai...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – What Elephant in the Exam Room?

  Wayne Liebhard, MD, author of Elephants in the Exam Room, talks about the importance of the patient's role in driving up the cost of health care. Dr. Liebhard's book, Elephants in the Exam Room, addresses health care policy, the real drivers of expensi...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – A Healthcare Townhall at facebook.com/bulbstorm

  Matt Simpson, Marketing Manager, Bulbstorm, talks about the ideas submitted in Bulbstorm's town hall challenge. With over 300 ideas submitted and over 6,000 visitors, Bulbstorm considered the townhall a success and has set up another contest. No ideas,...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Risk Management Or Risky Management?

  David Mair, Chief Operating Officer of China Connection Global Healthcare, talks about the importance of risk mangement in healthcare, business and the Olympics. Examples abound of bad risk management in Wall Street, the oil company BP and good risk ma...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Elder Care Rage. Its Worse Than You Thought!

  Jacqueline Marcell entertains us with her story about caring for her aging parents. Jacqueline went from one or two phone calls per week to check up on her parents to a 24/7 living Hell with her parents! This happened in a few short weeks. Both parents...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Lawyer Has NEVER Sued a Doctor!

  Albert Stark, a trial attorney in New Jersey, talks about his career providing representation to people with brain and spinal cord injuries or burns. His book, Insider Secrets to Winning Your Personal Injury Battle: A Seasoned Trial Lawyer Reveals All,...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – iTriage: Critical Information for YOUR Health Emergency

  Dr. Wayne Guerra talks about iTriage, healthcare information software developed by Healthagen to provide patients with critical, actionable information for consumers via smart phones, PC's and web devices. Federal Chief Technology Officer Anesh Chopra...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Vaughn Stelzenmuller Talks Healthcare Reform

  Vaughn Stelzenmuller, a retired Kodak engineer, entrepreneurship consultant and writer, offers his views on health care reform as a motivated and analytic consumer. Vaughn's strategy in the last two-three years before he reached medicare eligibility wa...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – What Did the Doctor Just Say?

  Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Healthcare Consultant and Patient Advocate, Lynn Parker talks about her book, What Did The Doctor Just Say? Lynn teaches patients to make well informed heatlhcare decisions that are right for them and tells them h...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Exploring the Global Healthcare Connection

  Increasingly, individuals and familes are exploring alternatives to the traditional approaches to heatlhcare delivery in the US. Healthcare reform doesn't address the alternative approaches like concierge or retainer healthcare or global treatment alt...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Waking Up Blind, A Case Study

  Dr. Tom Harbin is interviewed. Tom is the author of the remarkable book, Waking Up Blind: Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery: The Shocking Story of Blinded Eyes and the Hospital Politics that Allowed It. The book is intensively researched and documented and spe...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Your Personal Healthcare Counts Too!

  Metabolic fire! Dr. Barnet Meltzer's positive, enthusiastic message of permanent weight loss, optimal health, anti-aging, integrative medicine and clinical nutrition empowers and challenges listeners to get right with their own health. Visit his websit...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Public Health Needs Support Too!

  Art Cooper, retired county health department director talks about what the county health departments do: H1N1 (swine flu), vital statistics (deaths, births, disease incidence reporting), disaster preparedness, communicable diseases including sexually t...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Orthopedic Surgeon For Heatlhcare Reform!

  Dr. Craig Brigham of the OrthoCarolina Spine Center talks health reform. He says that spine surgery costs about five times more in the US than any other industrialized country. The fact is there is so much money to be made in the over treatment of back...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Move Baby, Move!

  Fred interviews Meranda Varnado, creator of the nationally recognized music based, chair-aerobics program Move Baby, Move! Meranda has extensive experience both teaching and choreographing aerobic exercise routines. She developed the Move Baby, Move! ...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – The Healthcare Reform Debate: Helping or Hurting?

  Campaigning against healthcare reform my be risky business for politicians and pundits. Everyday, in nearly everyway, healthcare delivery in this country is deteriorating. By the time of the Congres- sional elections, the decline and fall of heatlhc...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Healthcare, Its a No Fault Thing

  The host talks of his desire to interview or discuss or dialogue with people from the front lines of health care; employees or patients. Email him at FLMalphurs@gmail.com This show talks with a insulin dependent diabetic with a severe hearing loss. In ...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – The Healthcare Summit and Medical Schools

  The heatlhcare summit may be a prelude to not much or seriously reform health care, but it won't do much to stop the rising cost of health care or stop the healthcare cutbacks at some hospitals or program closures. At the same time, the US is funding $...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Really, Health Care Reform in Massachusetts?

  The host talks about health care reform in Massachusetts (MA) and the recent US senate election, much ballyhooed as a sign of Republican strength. A powerful issue in the election was health reform. MA voters bragged that they already had health care r...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Health Insurance Rate Hikes STINK!

  The host analyzes the rate increases in California announced last week by Anthem Blue Cross. The company says the rates are necessary because THEY ARE LOSING CUSTOMERS and that requiring everyone to buy health insurance would solve this problem. But, t...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Our Health Insurance Sucks!

  The host Interviews a clinical psychologist who talks about the high cost of drugs, the high cost of his recent angioplasty and how much his health insurance has gone up this year. He talks about the Canadian Medicare System and points out its deficien...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform - Drug resistant TB, A Big Public Health Issue Public Health Needs Reform Too

  Multi-drug resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB are powerful infectious diseases on the rise in the US. A single case is discussed which ended up costing US taxpayers $5 Million! The infected individual was a Peruvian in the US legally. Our S...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform - Overview of Show with Commentary Health Care Reform Requires Reform

  Health care reform pending in Congress will not reduce the cost of healthcare. Introducing Fred Malphurs who used to be a faceless, nameless healthcare bureaucrat and his show, Adventures in Healthcare. Fred talks about his book, My Life in the VA: Les...

• Adventures In Healthcare Reform – Raves, but More Rants Re: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  Fred talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly in current health care debate. Teed off by all the misinformation, threats, and ignorance up on display nationally in the recent elections, he tells how the good of the Patient Protection and Affordable...