Reflections on medicine, healing, and becoming.
The Fraud Wasn’t the Lesson
When my NPI was stolen, I thought the problem was fraud. Then I thought the problem was the investigation. Then I thought the problem was
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The Fraud Wasn’t the Lesson
When my NPI was stolen, I thought the problem was fraud. Then I thought the problem was the investigation. Then I thought the problem was
There Are Moments
There are moments in life that divide you into before and after. Not always dramatically, and not always all at once. Sometimes it happens quietly.
When Your Professional Identity Isn’t Yours Anymore
There are parts of your professional life you assume are stable.Your license. Your credentials. Your identity within the system. Until one day, they’re not. My
Who Has Access to Your CAQH and PECOS Profiles?
Credentialing. Payer enrollment. The administrative work that happens behind the scenes while you focus on patient care. But to get that work done, someone needs access to your information. And too often, that access is given in ways that put you at risk.
Hampuy: Calling My Soul Back Home
There is a question I avoided for years. Not because I didn’t know the answer. But because I wasn’t sure I could feel it anymore.
Viktor Frankl wrote, “If you find a why, you can bear almost any how.”
At one point, most of us knew our why. We wrote it into our personal statements. Before the pager. Before the metrics. Before the slow erosion of meaning that gets disguised as professionalism.