Abey Thomas

Physician.Educator.Centrist🇺🇸 Tweets are own opinions only and not medical or political advice.

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@UTSWNews UT Southwestern is now officially #1 in #Texas, and among the top 20 hospitals in the nation! Congratulations UT Southwestern! The future is brighter than ever and this is an institution that we are all proud to be part of.

[Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho]

It’s not on the PCP.

You guys are overbooked, forced to cram complicated patients into 10 minute visit slots, then expected to document after hours for hours, fill out endless paperwork (ahem, prior auth), answer patient messages and review results, and then somehow maintain patient experience scores while you barely have time to even pee between patients.

We feel ya—you’re the backbone of healthcare and we went wrong when we let corporations take over and run your offices like factories. Your overflow floods into the ER, but that’s not a failure on you, it’s the system— a reimbursement system, a corporatization system…

[Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho]

Q: Why are waits at emergency rooms so long?

A: Because the rest of the healthcare system is failing.

The patient did everything right, but the healthcare system did them so so so wrong.

🧵…

They call their PCP, but can’t get an appointment. So they turn to the ER.

They call their specialist, but the call line (automated, no human to respond) says go to the ER.

They try to pick up their new medicine, but it’s 3x their monthly rent $ and they already work 3 minimum wage jobs…so they turn to the ER to get a dose of medicine.

They try to get their imaging done, but can’t get the prior auth approved. So they come to the ER to get it.

Their employer won’t let them take a sick day without a work note (and the ER is the only thing open they can get into TODAY).

They need to see their doctor in the clinic, but can’t afford to take time off work to go, much less arrange childcare, and the ER is the only thing open when all those conditions sync up.

They lost their job and now have no insurance and can’t see their doctors anyways. So they come to the ER.

The list goes on and on and on…

Healthcare reform is not about healthcare — it’s about economics, corporate greed, lobby dollars, transportation, housing, politics/policy, culture, and more…

[Brad Cutrell, MD, FIDSA @BradCutrellMD]

Excited to welcome Dr. David Beckham @NS3protease as new ID Division Chief for @UTSWInfDis #IDTwitter @IDSAInfo @UTSWNews @UTSWBrain

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@TimothyJBrownMD This is brilliant!

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@TimothyJBrownMD Welcome back home Tim!

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@JohnPorro4TX Amen brother!

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

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[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@DGlaucomflecken @UHC UHC claimed to not know that their subcontractor naviHealth had denied and naviHealth says “talk to UHC”. Forgive me if I feel like a ping pong ball. This is a scam at best…

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@DGlaucomflecken @UHC Just lost a good slice of my life trying to figure out why UHC denied my 80 yo cancer patient on immunotherapy a few days of SNF after 2 wk admit for sepsis-not IPR, not LTAC,just SNF. He was pretty debilitated even before what just happened.Mostly spoke to phone tree,got nowhere

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You have to confront reality in order to change it.

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@KE_Gallaway Honestly there are more of these now than mushrooms sprouting in the fall rain. This one is geared towards helping content creators monetize so…😁

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

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[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@SPatel_md @justworks I’m just dying here rn 🤣. All this while I thought that was me…guess not!

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Just because something doesn’t cost money doesn’t mean it’s free.

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@marishaburden @CUMedicalSchool @SocietyHospMed Excellent food for thought and great work by a promising future doc

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@DinoKazi 2/2 Yet, there is so much politics of hate in the home countries. Hate is the poison that kills from within. Will we ever cast off this colonial yoke and move forward? #IndiaAgainstHate #Pakistan

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@DinoKazi 1/2 It is beyond ironic that around the world,the Indian and Pakistani diaspora live in harmony,often forging strong bonds between one other. Growing up in the Emirates,our family’s closest friends were a family from Karachi and a couple from Mumbai. Muslim,Hindu and Christian

[Abey Thomas @abeythomas]

@SPatel_md They also tend to have better chances of success and ROI compared to the average startup. So…

[Saurin Patel, MD @SPatel_md]

Funny bc it’s true…