Posted on 11/29/2016 7:15:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Most Doctors as well as most residents have no idea what medical costs to the patient are running. A GP has the best idea because he gets better feedback but I know a cardiologist that was blown away to find out a non lethal cardiac event involving 23 hours in the hospital was $32,000.
For that event for a family member I paid 320 just before Obama Care in force for us.
If it had happened 8 months later it would have cost me about 6,500 with Obama care plus the high cost of the Obama Care itself.
Goofball. I’ve practiced internal medicine for 31 years. The federal government has made it so much harder to practice. You’re lucky to be around when some of this bs will be hopefully rolled back. Quit listening to academic doctors and get to work. You’ll understand much better.
The dangerous alliance of corporate healthcare, academic medicine, IT companies, insurance companies and the government has been so detrimental to healthcare.
I have worked with a number of great female physicians. I said I have nothing against them. But mommy doctor is a lot tougher than daddy doctor.
Oh and my wife is an internal medicine doctor as well. 30 years for her.
You are a unique individual if you could raise children while she was in training.
My HMO went from pennies for deductables to $6500/yr. since obamacare. Bottom line, I'm paying for everyone else's health care so can't afford my own.
We have 5 children. Lol
Read an article some years ago. Author was a doctor who was trained in the 1950s. Said his nights on duty were so boring he brought his guitar with him to have something to do.
I bet that, while you are the exception, your wife agrees with me. In most cases I do think the children or the patients suffer.
I got nothing against women. I love women. Been married to one for going on 44 years. But realistically Medicine, and especially surgery just ain’t a field for women. I would not bar them but I would make sure from day one they realize what they are trading away. A guy can be a father and a resident but a female can’t be a mother and a resident. Gonna suck at one if not both.
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I have talked with tearful MD females who realize they cannot have children and meet their responsibilities.
I am of the belief now that double docs or other high earning/educated marriages are not always great. Sometimes there needs to be someone whose dream it is to stay home and raise the kids. Of course in this no fault divorce world that person puts themselves at risk.
obamacare made has denied medical care to millions by it’s very high cost. It has cost millions their jobs as well.
My brother in law is a doctor and he sold his practice out last year and is considering going into teaching. He said that obamacare and government red tape made practicing medicine and making a profit impossible under the useless pile of crap known as obamacare. He did managed to walk away after taxes with $15 million when he sold out, not bad...
WOW...had no idea we had so many MD’s on FreeRepublic!
Snowflake Medicine apparently was not a special area of practice in your era!
The Affordable Care Act sucks, but the much bigger problem, which won't go away with repealing ACA, is the behavior of Medicare. They conspire to not pay hospitals and physicians for work performed.
Yes but the brilliance of death panels is it solves the 30day readmission rate. /S
And ACGME work rules state that he can take care of a total of 5 patients a day. He will be well prepared in 3 years to take care of 18 -25 patients a day in the typical hospital setting . . . NOT.
I wonder if he complains to the Emphysema patient who comes back within 30 days because they won't quit smoking (a sarcastic way of showing that not every readmission is due to poor hospital or outpatient care or poor transition between the two)?
That's because the cardiologist probably gets 100 bucks on such a stay if someone was nice enough to consult him(or her).
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