# 217: Healthcare Is a Dumpster Fire with Better Branding but the System Still Sucks!

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Podcast: [Itchy & Bitchy Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229)
Published: 2026-05-25T15:12:38+00:00
Episode link: http://ItchyandBitchy.com
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(00:00:00) 217: Healthcare Is a Dumpster Fire with Better Branding but the System Still Sucks! (00:00:03) Welcome to Itchy and Bitchy (00:00:19) Meet the Doctors (00:00:42) Doc Itchy Medical Pets Supplements (00:01:05) DocItchy.com Sponsor (00:03:40) The System is Broken (00:06:49) Provider Burnout and Workload (00:10:34) Break Announcement (00:10:50) The EMR Dilemma (00:19:00) Break Announcement (00:19:20) The Social Media Dilemma (00:25:02) Insurance think they are the Doctor In this brutally honest relaunch episode of the Itchy & Bitchy Podcast with 2 new hosts. The new hosts say the quiet part out loud: the medical system is broken, abusive, exhausting, wildly expensive, and often designed to make patients and pet owners feel stupid for needing help in the first place. Doc Itchy and Dr. Stephen Miller, DNP, ACNP rip into the bureaucracy, burnout, corporate medicine, insurance games, rushed appointments, garbage communication, and “follow the protocol and shut up” culture that has turned healthcare into a customer-service nightmare with needles. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/itchy-bitchy-podcast--4303608/support . Itchy & Bitchy: Have you felt dismissed, misdiagnosed, or gaslit by a broken medical system. From gut health, hormones, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, holistic health, and alternative medicine ... medical gaslighting, patient advocacy , or misdiagnosis we’ll call that too. For chronic illness warriors, self-advocacy seekers : WE OFFER No BS

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