Physicians are fragmented due to a multitude of factors including corporate interests, bureaucracy, and a loss of professional identity. Grand Rounds seeks to create a forum intended to share ideas and opinions and debate matters of consequence, moving the physician community toward a unified voice and shared platform with the ultimate goal of being more in control of their own profession again.
Grand Rounds is a call to arms against the de-professionalization of medicine—through the dispensation of generic "provider" labels, the encroachment of allied health professionals into our job market, corporate financed hospitalist models, algorithmic cookie-cutter care, and corporate interference in medical decision making. It promotes a return to true medical advocacy for the patient and independent decision-making.
Grand Rounds is envisioned as a participatory and democratic forum where physicians decide what thrives. It encourages open discourse, debate, and collective direction—placing value on diverse viewpoints, intellectual humility, and, most importantly, the avoidance of groupthink.
John Joseph Pack MD, is a board-certified internist with over 30 years of clinical experience in Marina del Rey, California. Dr. Pack has recently retired to Colorado where he has been appointed to the volunteer faculty at University of Colorado School of Medicine to pay forward his knowledge and expertise. A former journalism student turned physician, Dr. Pack brings a rare blend of medical expertise and storytelling skill to his editorial role.
As the visionary behind the Through the Looking Glass subsection of Grand Rounds, he has interviewed and profiled distinguished physicians around the world who have made significant contributions to medicine and history, covering these remarkable MD’s with insight and empathy, mixed with a casserole of historical depth.
His past roles—as team physician for the Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association, his volunteer appointment with the United States Olympic Committee at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego, and as Chief of Staff of the hospitalist program at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital—reflect his leadership in medicine and integration with the community.
With his unique voice and dedication to truth-telling, Dr. Pack guides this platform with heart, soul, and integrity.
We can’t do this alone—and we shouldn’t. Grand Rounds MD is built on the belief that real change in medicine starts with honest voices from within. If you’re a physician with a story to tell, a perspective to share, or a vision for what healthcare should be, we want to hear from you. Join us in reclaiming the narrative, one story at a time!