ophthalmologay

Hell’s Kitchen | Ophthalmology Fellow in Cornea 👁️ | 🏳️‍🌈| Healthcare is a human right

[ophthalmologay @a_hat_]

When it’s your day off and you’re not on call but you still find yourself at the hospital for hours and operating 😷

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Normally not the biggest thrifter but I’m in love with this jacket I just got on 26th st

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Oh wow what a deal

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@Bodegacats_

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*Goes to France once*

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The circle of least confusion is still confusing to me

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Can someone please explain to me how it’s still January

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New ornament

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

our tax dollars is being used so the NYPD can do photoshoots

[ophthalmologay @a_hat_]

@BlxckSwiss_ Well someone decided to skip math class

[Alison Burke @TiredActor]

How does this help them play football

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

this is literally UNCONSTITUTIONAL…..

[Jake Christie @TheJakeChristie]

surely they could have just written out ‘Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’

[ophthalmologay @a_hat_]

Golden hour

[Ra✨🦋 @itssimplyangel]

A dragula CLASSIC !!!! Meatball was all of us when this happened like 😭

[Danielle Belardo, MD @DBelardoMD]

Heartbroken after seeing a young patient with no medical history, end up with a BIFFL GRADE II dissection of the vertebral artery and subsequent acute PICA infarct immediately after a neck adjustment from the chiropractor. This has to stop.

Chiropractors - you HAVE to stop.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

This is the world that JK Rowling and Chaya Raichik are building

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

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.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Let physicians own hospitals. Put ownership of healthcare back in the hands of people actually doing health care.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

I think it should be illegal to post videos of random strangers just living their lives for millions of people to mock. This person isn't bothering anybody and did not ask to be posted online.