EP Studios on a Mission

Near EP Studios European Headquarters
Near EP Studios European Headquarters

EP Studios has never had a mission statement — until now.  The only mission up until this point has been to do some computer programming, write sometimes serious but often silly blog posts, and otherwise use up your precious bandwidth with whatever comes into my head to write about.  Now that I have reached the end of my actual doctoring career it has struck me that I need a purpose other than shiftlessly lazing around in Paris, France, eating French food and drinking French wine.  Then again, maybe not.  Well, regardless, I came up with what I think is a way I can still contribute to the medical community while no longer on the front lines, fighting the good fight.  Doctors (and other health care workers) are like the foot soldiers in the war.  They are so preoccupied with just staying alive from day to day that it is difficult to get any perspective on why they are putting themselves through this hell.  The people who actually make the decisions are always safely away from the front lines, nicely ensconced in their safe multi-million dollar homes with their multi-million dollar CEO salaries (to shift the metaphor gradually from armies back to the health care system).  I have worked in both academic medicine and private practice.  I have seen a lot happen and a lot change over the years.  The American health care system, always broken, is always changing, but the changes just tend to break it in new ways.  There are too many financial fingers in the pie to start over and fix the system.   Only more patches can be applied and,  as with very old legacy software, applying a patch at one place tends to break something else in a another place.  So, the Mission of EP Studios is NOT to fix the American Health Care System.  That’s way too hard.  It is more modest.

What I’d like to do is try to help doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals get their job done.  I think I am in in a good position to do this.  Whether through apps that make taking care of patients easier, or just blog posts that try to impart some of the things I have learned over the years, I think I can help.  As a side mission though I will continue to post on non-medical topics — basically anything I feel like writing about.   Come to think of it, maybe not a whole lot will change here after all.

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By mannd

I am a retired cardiac electrophysiologist who has worked both in private practice in Louisville, Kentucky and as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver. I am interested not only in medicine, but also in computer programming, music, science fiction, fantasy, 30s pulp literature, and a whole lot more.

4 comments

  1. Bonjour mon chérie. Mes félicitations pour ta retraite. Tu as vraiment raison. La médecine est un travail très dur en plusieurs aspects. Maintenant tu commences une nouvelle vie de savoirs et d’activités.
    C’est le temps pour lire des livres, pour prendre des flâneries le long de la Seine, pour écrire des “apps”, pour manger des croissants et des pains au chocolat, et pour boire des cafés-au-lait. Ce qui est le plus important est d’aimer ta vie et de croquer la vie à pleines dents.

    Le bateau!!

  2. Il y a un librairie à Paris qui est formidable. Là, il y a des premieres éditions des romans par Jules Verne. C’est dans le cinquième arrondissement. Alors que tu sois en retraite, tu peux lire tout le temps.

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