{"podcast":{"title":"Itchy & Bitchy Podcast","slug":"itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229","podcast_index_feed_id":397229,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4303608/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://ItchyandBitchy.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dedca39f75cd214a503ab001ea80eba7.jpg","author":"Miller-Hnilica","episode_count":221,"summary":"Itchy & Bitchy is the podcast for anyone who has ever felt dismissed, misdiagnosed, or gaslit by a broken medical system. From gut health and hormone health to autoimmune disease and chronic pain , we investigate what science actually says. We examine functional medicine, holistic health, and alternative medicine with the same skeptical If it’s pseudoscience, we’ll call it. If it’s medical gaslighting, patient advocacy failure, or misdiagnosis we’ll call that too. For chronic illness warriors, self-advocacy seekers, and wellness skeptics WE OFFER No filters. No BS. Just the truth your doctor didn’t have time to tell you. Meet Doc Itchy (Dr. Keith A Hnilica, DVM, MS, DACVD), a veterinary allergist allergic to Nonsense, and Dr. Stephen Miller, DNP, ACNP-BC a data-driven acute-care cardiology Brainiac with a low tolerance for medical BS. Together, they poke the swollen ego of healthcare, question sacred cows, mock wellness garbage, and translate confusing medicine before the system bills you for oxygen. Visit our website itchyandbitchy.com to read or listen to more Vist our Facebook at I&B Podcast Visit our Principle Sponsor at DocItchy.com. Become a supporter of this podcast: https:…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T14:17:03.096677+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229"},"episode":{"title":"217: Healthcare Is a Dumpster Fire with Better Branding but the System Still Sucks!","slug":"217-healthcare-is-a-dumpster-fire-with-better-branding-but-the-system-still-sucks","published_at":"2026-05-25T15:12:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/217-healthcare-is-a-dumpster-fire-with-better-branding-but-the-system-still-sucks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229","url":"http://ItchyandBitchy.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72076794/217_ib_the_system_sucks_5_3_26_5_19_pm.mp3","summary":"(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","meta_description":"(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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1831,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/episodes/217-healthcare-is-a-dumpster-fire-with-better-branding-but-the-system-still-sucks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/217-healthcare-is-a-dumpster-fire-with-better-branding-but-the-system-still-sucks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}