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But we take that same patient at discharge, when we have similar data saying that a drug like a beta blocker may save his or her life after having a heart attack and don’t provide the same resources to the patient, even though the beta blocker is a much cheaper intervention.
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We want to be in control of our bodies to the nth degree: we’re too busy to be sick, just give us antibiotics that may or may not work; we shouldn’t be fat, just give me a pill to make it all better. Well, people should eat better, have less stress, and exercise more.
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Read On Match Day in the WSJ (Links)
But instead, in this system where each patient only gets 15 minutes of a doctor’s time per visit, everything is referred to a specialist (who often either gets a bit more time to see each patient, or at least is just dealing with one single issue).
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Two things: he’s stealing all the easy work from people, and while I’ll admit I don’t know much about preventive medicine residencies, how much training does he really have in treating adults, when he did a pediatrics residency?
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When you add in the costs of an undergradate degree (which is often either not necessary for other countries’ medical school admission or again tax payer-funded), it’s not uncommon to have medical students starting residency in $200,000 of educational debt.
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HIPAA is like the Transportation Safety Administration’s requirements that everyone take off their shoes and only carry a quart of liquids and creams: it apparently makes us feel safe and protected, but really just it’s all a big pony show that wastes everyone’s time.
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I illustrate these points only to remind you that if your goal is to make people healthier, there’s many, many more avenues that might be far more effective (and far far cheaper) than optimizing or fixing the health care system.
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having them pay for primary care when they themselves often don’t see any benefit from it and discourage doctors from going into primary care by making it a nightmare of: paperwork referrals tons of complex, sick patients to be seen in 15 minutes and little pay compared to other doctors
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