Ankylosing Spondylitis

A surgeon I know recently operated on a man's spine. Saved his mobility. Saved his career. Saved his marriage, probably. The surgeon's take-home on that case, after the facility fee, anesthesia, device costs, payer discounts, and overhead, was $1,840. The health system collected $64,000. Ask yourself who the system thinks did the work.

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If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free. A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want. They can take cash. They can take chickens. If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ? And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ? Fuck yeah it does. You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class. That’s it. You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.

Enjoy the long weekend.

A 30-year-old woman with a history of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease presents with fever and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Diagnostic laparoscopy shows the findings in the image. Which organism is the most likely cause?

Unless our Medical Schools do a better job of screening admission candidates, we won’t have any Doctors. If you don’t want to practice FULL time for at least 20-25 years, pick another profession.