Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

Rural Physician. Daddy of Girls. Patient and Physician Advocate. Tweets my own. Not Medical Advice.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@NCmountainshome @JustinPetersMin Lights off, spotlights on. ACTION.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

As an outpatient physician, this is the most misunderstood conflict between patients and doctors.

From the patient perspective, it’s inconsiderate, especially when many offices will reschedule if you are more than 10 minutes late. Traffic, child care, finding a ride, time off work. So many factors go into just getting to a doctor’s appointment on time.

From the physician perspective, there is a giant machine behind the doctor dictating how we run our clinics. Administration, reimbursement, regulatory hurdles like prior authorizations, balancing wait times with patient demand. If you asked most physicians how many patients they would like to see in a vacuum, most would choose a number that is far fewer than their current volume, but the healthcare system has other ideas.

I wish we had an empathy contraption. Two people wear it and you instantly understand the other person’s experience. In lieu of that, these types of complaints and disagreements can be remedied with better communication. Give patients updates on the status of the clinic. Vast majority of people are reasonable, just communicate. Have a system for it.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

I support the death penalty when there is no doubt about the intent and guilt of the perpetrator - but the medical community should not be involved.

Physicians or medicine should not be instruments of death.

Participating in an execution stands against the Hippocratic oath.

[Alec Lace @AlecLace]

🚨 Christa Pike is still alive after lethal injection being overseen by Dr. Mark Fowler.

Tennessee used Dr. Fowler in May for Tony Carruthers execution.

Fowler and the team botched it. The execution was called off.
Carruthers got a 1 year reprieve.

Investigate Fowler

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@pgipe @KrutikaKuppalli That’s a bad look. 👀

It’s indefensible.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@pgipe @txsportsdoc I am surprised that the docs agreed to that. Every handoff is another hole in the cheese.

I like seeing my own hospital patients, But I realize that isn’t practical these days in large systems.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@alexmd2 @sallypipes Medicare for all is up when the pendulum swings back.

Monopolies are bad. More forms, less care. Think VA.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@eyorrickd @DrDiGiorgio

[The Coverage Report™ @CoveragePending]

Insurance claims denial letters are starting to sound like break-up texts:
It's not you, it's us. We just don't find this treatment medically necessary right now.

(TBH it's usually more like... It's not you and it's not us... It's your doctor. It's all her fault.)

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@mcuban Ouch. 😓

Ai has definitely made me smarter…. it isn’t always right…. But it’s a great place to start

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

Ai-Generated content is really annoying.

2 and 3 word sentences
quietly
Not ___, but ____
Vibes
overuse of adjectives and adverbs

It's really easy to spot, and it's not good writing.

The irony is that some champion AI as "efficient prose."

If so, I don't like efficient prose. I like Welty and even Grisham.... but don't give me AI to read seriously.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@PedsGeekMD Why would he study anything when he purports to already know the outcome?

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@CoveragePending

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@DefiantLs overstated nonsense.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

Most people cannot name even 1 past Secretary of HHS.

That's the problem....

RFK Jr. is a consequence.... not the root cause. :)

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@DrDiGiorgio It's a mess, man.

I think it was last year that a large hospital system advertised during the Super Bowl.

Remember? Terrible look.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@WSJopinion I skimmed the report when it came out a few weeks ago... and wasn't shocked.

But I'm also not privy to the power-play in Washington either between these groups.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Nothing defeats common sense faster than dogma

[The Coverage Report™ @CoveragePending]

Insurance companies are now denying claims faster than patients are being triaged in the ER.