The Scrub Blog
Insights, tips, and stories for patients and healthcare workers alike.
How to Choose a Hospital: A Patient’s Complete Guide (2026)
Introduction Most of us spend more time researching a new phone than we do choosing where we’ll have surgery — and that’s not because we don’t care. It’s because nobody teaches us how. Hospitals all have polished websites. Insurance networks...
Does Healthcare Seem Broken? The Inside Look (Part 2)
In Part 1, we talked about what it feels like to be a patient in the American healthcare system—the waiting, the billing...
Does Healthcare Seem Broken? A Patient’s Perspective (Part 1)
If you’ve been in the US long enough, you know that there are a few things we do really well. BBQ, muscle...