Dr. Morgan Lorio
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first heard Jan 2026
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After two decades immersed in policy, I've come to understand that physicians didn't abandon independence.
Policy made independence mathematically impossible.
Well, because CPT is no longer just a communication tool.
It's mandatory infrastructure.
It's federally designated under HIPAA, yet owned and commercialized by a private organization.
That same ecosystem participates in valuation through the RUC, the Relative Value Scale Update Committee.
So when language, valuation, and revenue are intertwined, you create self-reinforcing downward pressure on physician work.
I'll try to provide an analogy.
A vice grip requires someone to keep turning the screw.
A pressure cooker tightens itself.
In this case, once assumption replaces observation, the system applies downward pressure automatically, silently, continuously, and without accountability.
Okay.
Well, because policies never abstract the people living under it.
I survived a COVID-19 coma, woke up to a system where physicians had become employees, not advocates.
Burnout isn't just emotional, it's economic.
Moral and physical.
Burnout isn't a personal failure.
It's what happens when professional obligation meets structural loss.
Carly, this is something to chew on.
Surgeons now carry the highest mortality risk of any physician group.
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