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@DGlaucomflecken Love this! Thank you!!!

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated corporate nightmare we enjoy today. The conflict of interest argument is absurd in a for profit healthcare system. Hospitals force their employed physicians to refer to other specialists within their own hospital system. Physicians recommend surgery then do the surgery themselves collecting both a clinic fee and a surgery fee. Optum forces patients to see their doctors, use their pharmacies, and be admitted to their own hospitals. If there is profit to be made in patient care, there will be a conflict of interest among the entities/people collecting that profit. The closest thing to a conflict of interest free system is one that is devoid of profit. Call me cynical, but that will not happen in the US. So we can wring our hands about the potential corruption and malfeasance evil greedy doctors will inflict upon our great country if physicians owned hospitals, while ignoring the actual corruption and malfeasance already displayed by hospital corporations. We can ignore data that shows POHs as a whole (~250 in the US, holdovers from pre-ACA times) have better outcomes at lower costs. Or we can introduce some actual competition in the healthcare marketplace to give patients a chance for better care from people who actually got into this business to treat patients, care that is not dictated by a private equity company or insurance company. Just give physicians a chance to show that we can do a better job. That’s all we’re asking. If we suck at it, we won’t get very far, right? Isn’t that what the free market is for? Repeal the ban on physician owned hospital.

@oldmanebro PREACH Ebro!! Let em know!!!

Greg Abbott has imitated a hostile takeover of the local school district in Houston, TX — taking control away from the local school board so that it’s now run by the state. Parent and activist Lauren Ashley read the superintendent for FILTH

@1NadineSmith @naima Blasphemy! 🤣

@naima I’m only participating because my family isn’t on Twitter. Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder mars a majestic album and just thinking about it hurts my chest.

Alright y'all... I'm about to drop the most incendiary prompt of the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge (and if you're a regular you know which one) and then get on a flight. Can I trust y'all not to set the timeline on fire if I'm gone for a few hours?

@Johnny_J_Jones @naima Disrepeck!

@naima Instant skip

@amyfaithho These are facts! I hate my fomite ass white coat

Same for white coats…chances are, if someone is wearing a white coat, they are a chaplain/pharmacist/therapist/food services/etc… If they are wearing a fleece or soft shell, probably a doctor, and probably have their name and credentials embroidered on said clothing 🤣 #medtwitter

How do you tell a medical doctor? Real doctors: *reluctant to state they are doctors in public/social forums* Non-MD/DOs: *take every opportunity to say they are a doctor…* (chiropractors, naturopaths, pharmacists, apothecaries, charlatans…)

@wiseconnector 15283

@oldmanebro @Rosenbergradio 🔥🔥🔥

@edyong209 Get your rest, Mr. Yong!!!!

🧵Some personal news: I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical, starting now. These past 3 years have been the most professionally meaningful of my life, but they’ve also deeply broken me. The pandemic isn’t over, but after a long time spent staring into the sun, I need to blink. 1/

FULL MEDICAL REGALIA AND IT DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT

watch this

1 hour into my shift: “Send that nigger doctor in here! And bring me a whip. My grandaddy owned slaves.” It’s going to be a triple caffeinated sort of day. #MedTwitter

@DrKerrySmith 👀

I have been infected 5 times with Covid-19 over the past 2 plus years. These are my most recent T cell counts. No one seems remotely concerned. I am #MedTwitter.

@nowthisnews @JamiraBurley

A group of educators in Texas are recommending 'slavery' be referred to as 'involuntary relocation' for second graders, according the Texas Tribune.

Abortion rights protesters in NYC blocking rich guests from getting into a dinner hosted by the right wing Federalist Society, who supported SCOTUS justices’ attack on abortion. Organized by @nycforabortion @nycDSA

@swordsjew Say it louder for the people in the back

its not the taliban. its not sharia. its not muslims. its homegrown good old christian fanatical hate

@MrsBundrige @ChristineFox 💀💀💀