@BrentAWilliams2 I’ve been saying this for the last year. The only people that benefit from Value Based Care are insurance CEO’s and Administration. The patients, nurses, and Drs will never see one red cent of benefit.
@united There isn’t really anything you can do. Giving me United flight credits would be a punishment. Hire enough pilots to avoid having them go over their hours.
I would rather spend a night in the county jail than fly with @united. Wouldn’t have this time if I didn’t have flight credits from the last flight which was so overweight it couldn’t get the nose up the entire trip.
@NawafDandachi@IM_Crit_ Well, not necessarily. Once you establish the diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia that’s a one way ticket to a colo and maybe EGD given symptoms. Iron deficiency is more compelling to get your gastro doc on board than + fecal occult in acute settings given poor specificity.
@IM_Crit_ Useless…
Unless you can see the blood (melena) it is not an acutely significant bleed. 10 ml of blood in the GI tract will + (we lose 2-5 ml per day normally). Any patient on DOAC, DAPT, or any other coagulopathy will almost 100% be +. Leads to poor prep, thus repeat scopes opt.