Peter Valenzuela on 'A Physician's Guide to Fixing Our Ailing Health Care System'

Our guest today is Peter Valenzuela. Peter is chief medical officer of Mercy Medical Group, an affiliate of Dignity Health. He is also an author and cartoonist who created the popular Doc-Related comic strip. He recently published the book "Doc-Related: A Physician's Guide to Fixing Our Ailing Health Care System." Resources for this episode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petervalenzuela/ https://www.dignityhealth.org/sacramento/medical-group/mercy-medical-group https://www.doc-related.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Doc-Related-Physicians-Fixing-Ailing-Health/dp/0578258048/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Sponsors: Thanks to MineralTree and to MedEvolve for sponsoring this week’s show. If you don’t know the outcomes your staff are producing every day, you aren’t operating successfully. MedEvolve can help you find solutions to the biggest problems medical practices face. Go to medevolve.com/about-us/ to learn more. MineralTree is a leading AP and payment automation provider in healthcare, and they’d love to show you why. To learn more, visit mineraltree.com/MGMA. We also want to make you aware of another great healthcare podcast out there. Rev Dive with Taya Moheiser and Kem Tolliver. Key topics center around revenue cycle management, medical billing, and coding. Go to sliceofhealthcare.com/revdive to listen to the latest episode. And you can listen to all the MGMA podcasts at mgma.com/listen. If you like the MGMA shows, please rate and review them wherever you get your podcasts. If you have topics you’d like us to cover or experts you’d like us to interview, email us at podcasts@mgma.com or find us on Twitter at twitter.com/MGMAInsightsPod. MGMA Insights is presented by Decklan McGee, Rob Ketcham, and Daniel Williams. Stay safe and thanks for listening.

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