Post Author: Jordan Grumet, MD

Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician, host of the Earn & Invest Podcast, and author of Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor’s Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life.
He has worked in academic as well as private practices, served as medical director of several nursing homes, and created palliative care programs for skilled nursing facilities.
He is a writer and storyteller who has been published in Medical Economics, the Pharos, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. His book, I Am Your Doctor And This Is My Humble Opinion, was published in 2015, and followed by Five Moments: Short Works of Fiction in 2017.
Jordan shares his stories at conferences nationwide, highlighted by an acclaimed performance at the dotMD conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Jordan speaks about the following topics:
- Bridging the intimacy gap between physician and patient
- Caring 2.0: Social media and the rise of the empathic physician
- Hospice and the way of the master clinician
- Doctor and society: An hour of storytelling
He is a member of Physician Speaking by KevinMD and is available for speaking opportunities. Please contact us for inquiries.

Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician, host of the Earn & Invest Podcast, and author of Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life.
He has worked in academic as well as private practices, served as medical director of several nursing homes, and created palliative care programs for skilled nursing facilities.
He is a writer and storyteller who has been published in Medical Economics, the Pharos, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. His book, I Am Your Doctor And This Is My Humble Opinion, was published in 2015, and followed by Five Moments: Short Works of Fiction in 2017.
Jordan shares his stories at conferences nationwide, highlighted by an acclaimed performance at the dotMD conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Jordan speaks about the following topics:
- Bridging the intimacy gap between physician and patient
- Caring 2.0: Social media and the rise of the empathic physician
- Hospice and the way of the master clinician
- Doctor and society: An hour of storytelling
He is a member of Physician Speaking by KevinMD and is available for speaking opportunities. Please contact us for inquiries.
According to a study by Jackson Healthcare, the percentage rate of U.S. physician compensation is among the lowest of western nations. In 2011, physicians’ salaries compromised 8.6 percent of the nation’s total health care costs. This is in comparison to 15 percent in Germany, 11 percent in France, and 11.6 percent in Australia. Detractors point to the fact that although the percentages speak for themselves, if you look at …
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I’m no economist. In fact, I have never taken any business or accounting classes in my life. But it doesn’t take a formal education to get this. We are speeding down the wrong path.
The call at three in the morning woke me from a deep sleep. I fumbled and strained to hear the whispered voice of the apologetic nurse. Apparently Mrs. …
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Barron Lerner thinks he understands doctor’s motives. In his recent article in the Atlantic he laments that physicians act on tradition and emotion over adopting new science. In defense of his position, he sites the example of how cardiologists use angioplasty and coronary artery bypass to treat coronary disease.
He states,
… cardiologists have been remarkably slow to abandon the old hypothesis, continuing to perform hundreds of thousands of bypass operations and …
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It was a particularly challenging case. On the car ride into the hospital, I found myself doing something that I rarely do. I called a local allergist for an inpatient consult. Most allergy issues are not an emergency. So it is odd indeed to summon this particular kind of physician into the medical wards. His nurse took the message and promised that she would plug my mobile number into his …
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Malcolm Gladwell thinks we should tell people whats it’s really like to be a doctor. And by God I have invested the last seven years in doing just that. I have written countless blogs, given lectures, and traveled to Ireland. I have coined the term Caring 2.0 to describe the bidirectional flow of empathy. Patients will tell us what it is like to suffer with disease, and we …
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1. Process vs. product. Computers are just machines. I repeat, they are just tools. Health information technology is a shell which houses knowledge and human ability. It is nothing more . Electronic medical records may either streamline our thought processes or make them more cluttered. They will not, however, lead to better or more perfect care. They haven’t yet, and they won’t in the future. And they are prone to be …
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Movements come and movements go. To be memorable, to last, depends on continuously refining the message. The brand, by necessity blindingly clear in the beginning, must be anything but static. Ideas mature, knowledge grows, and movements pivot. They must pivot.
The meteoric rise of hospice and palliative care has had untoward affects. Specifically, the treatment of pain and suffering has dislodged itself from the moors of clinical medicine. A new generation …
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Home visits are hard, there is no doubt about it.
I felt like I had been driving for hours. The thirty minute travel time showing on my GPS was woefully understated due to the arctic temperatures and colossal snowfall. My jacket and clothes felt caked with dried salt rubbed off from the car or somehow accumulated from the ether. I pulled the key out of the ignition and braced for the …
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When I was seventeen, I developed a medical problem due to no fault of my own. It was painful, it was embarrassing, and when it became uncomfortable enough to disrupt my life, I went to see a well known surgeon downtown.
The specialist, tucked away in the hallow halls of academia, stared down at me past a pair of spectacles perched at the end of his ever-protruding nose. When he examined …
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I immediately noticed upon awakening that the intense jaw pain was gone. I guess the TMJ was on hiatus. Than I reached my hand down to my waist to make sure that the pager hadn’t fallen off during sleep (as I do every morning): it wasn’t there! It took a few moments for me to remember that I had dispensed of it the day before. For the first time in …
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I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise.
Her house was exactly as I expected it to be. The door couldn’t have been more fitting; red wood with a green holiday wreath attached perfectly in the center. The carpet was so white that I almost took off my shoes on the front porch before entering through the threshold. The room was warm. The ambient temperature was accentuated by a plethora of …
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Roger struggled with various maladies that came with growing older. His blood was occasionally too sweet, his pressure stumbled upwards, at times perilously. But it was the colon cancer that gave him pause. It started rather innocently. At first he noticed a little blood on the toilet paper, later, a touch of abdominal pain. He put off the appointment for a few weeks, but eventually he showed up in my …
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Why must everything be so difficult?
Soni pushed her mother quickly into the building from the parking lot, she wore a strained look on her face. The wheelchair appeared preposterously large for the aged figure cowering under the haggle of blankets. They were enjoying the brisk air, taking a walk around the facility, when the elderly woman called out. Her lips curled and she moaned deeply.
Now Soni’s mother had stopped talking …
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So a guy has his car towed to the mechanic. All four tires are slashed. He has a simple request.
Please replace the tires.
But this is one of those comprehensive care mechanics. He not only examines the tires, he does a full once over. He pops the hood and immediately knows that the engine is shot. It’s fried. The cost of fixing the engine is more than the value of the …
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My dear Medicare patients:
The government has just screwed you. Did you know it? Probably not, probably you have no idea about what the government is proposing to do. But it is going to have profound effects on the quality of the care you are about to receive. You are confused? You are surprised? Let me explain.
The government is proposing to change the way it pays doctors for outpatients visits. According …
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I am not a disease.
Although when I enter your hospital, or office, or outpatient center, you may refer to me as one. You may lump me together with an odd set of symptoms, or signs. You will define me with those antiquated terms. You will pretend that you will know how I, my body, will react when placed under certain stressors. You will prescribe treatments for my disease, and yet …
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I think we are overly limited by our descriptive terms. We throw around concepts like hospice and palliative care, but in reality the medicine I practice is much more a hybrid. Many of my patients are elderly, demented, and plagued by metastatic disease. Often when one of them becomes ill, it is unclear if they are merely treading water, or about to drown. The problem with our modern definitions is that they leave little …
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But doctor, ultimately it is your responsibility.
I can hear the case coordinator clicking her fingernails against the desk through the telephone line. I admit, I forgot to specify to the nurse, when she called me ten minutes before midnight, that this was a full admission and not an observation. In the absence of my order, a nurse manager reviewed the chart and decided that the 95-year-old woman with congestive heart …
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Gertrude wasn’t able tell me herself. She was 90-years-old and moderately demented. It was her daughter who called. She pleasantly greeted me as I picked up the phone.
We had a good working relationship, Gertrude’s daughter and I. We navigated a heart attack and stroke, multiple hospitalizations, and many discussions concerning end of life care. Gertrude was well taken care of. She was lucky enough to have a group of helpers …
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What ever happened to courage?
Jim came through the cholecystectomy beautifully. In fact, he did so well that in no time he was back on the basketball court. Three weeks later he was in my office with a sore, swollen leg. He thought it was from twisting his ankle the day before. And indeed, it had all the appearances of a sports injury. I examined the extremity carefully, and decided to get …
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