EPIC ’s Neverland.
I recently saw this article called the EPIC Medical Campus May Make You Want To Vomit.
And at first I couldn’t even believe my eyes. My stomach churned.
My head almost exploded as I read this:
The EPIC campus is an amalgamation of themed buildings: Harry Potter, Jungle Safari, Alice in Wonderland etc.It is a decadent display of healthcare wealth, and gives you a sense of how much money is really in the system.
All of this wealth is made from the good little physician cogs that keep the system running.
I had to check it out for myself.
So I did what every good patient does, I asked Dr. Google.
Here’s what I found:
https://www.epic.com/visiting/
What the —-?! “Intergalactic Headquarters?”
Again, I couldn’t believe my eyes.
This is insane.
Besides the overwhelming anger I felt as I looked at this gross display of healthcare wealth
being spent unnecessarily, it felt eerily familiar.
What was it? What was it?
Oh, now I remember…
it reminded me of Michael Jackson’s Neverland.
But instead of preying on children, it appears as EPIC is mistreating doctors.
Enough is enough.
As I claimed in my earlier post:
EPIC IS THE WORST ADVANCEMENT TO EVER BE INTRODUCED INTO MEDICINE.
Prove me wrong.
When I was finishing college in 99, this is what EVERY big tech type company was trying to build and use to recruit employees. Over the next few years I had the opportunity with my career to be in lots of different company buildings – I was in consulting so I traveled quite a bit and was always in a new client office. This type of design was everywhere – seemed like everyone had themed conference rooms, quirky things on their campus, and lots of “fluff.” I thought that most of that had gone away over the last few decades but apparently not. I clicked through to their visit us page and the thing that bothered me the most was not that they have employees working in a barn building, but that they referred to their desk spaces as “stalls” – that would be a big nope from me!!