“wait a second… Heat rises” (it hits me) “heat rises!”
Bank teller on floor: what?
“Heat rises!”
(I rush at the armed robber and he shoots me in the face killing me instantly. It’s unclear what my plan was)
Thinking about the time my baby was in the ER and had a med student checking his ears.
I said "good job buddy" (to my kid) and the med student said "thank you, it's been a long day."
I'm glad it maybe helped.
Be Dr Elisabeth Potter
> Princeton molecular bio
> crush Emory med school
> match into the most competitive plastics residency at UT Southwestern
> fellowship at MD Anderson learning to rebuild breasts with a woman’s own tissue
> graduate top of the game, DIEP flap queen, 1,000+ cases deep
> join big hospital systems in Austin
> watch insurance companies nickel-and-dime cancer patients for years
> see OR fees hit $30k+ before the surgeon even picks up a scalpel
> get the infamous @UHC call *while patient is under anesthesia* asking if she really needs to stay overnight after mastectomy + reconstruction
> step out of the OR, fight on the phone, they deny her anyway
> posts the video
> it explodes
> millions of people finally see what doctors have been screaming about for a decade
> United sends the lawyers
> “delete the videos or else”
> she laughs, posts the letter instead, and goes harder
> they cut her brand-new surgery center out of network
> Redbud Surgery Center, the one she poured millions into so women wouldn’t get crushed by hospital bills
> suddenly staring at bankruptcy while still trying to operate
> double down on cash-pay transparency
> same elite surgeons, same microsurgery expertise
> do the $100k+ hospital case for a fraction of the price
> same day, same quality, zero corporate middlemen bleeding the patient dry
> keep posting, keep fighting, keep winning small battles (Aetna in-network, Cigna in-network, one patient at a time)
> turn the whole thing into a movement
> be the surgeon who said “if I want healthcare to be different, I have to practice differently”
> actually do it
> still in the arena
> still taking on the biggest insurers in America
> still rebuilding women after cancer
I’m inspired! The Elizabeth Potter arc is what I hope for all my physician colleagues
@EPotterMD@DutchRojas
Because I don’t gatekeep. These are the products that I use. Sometimes I use them all together because idk what I’m doing lol.
And the cut my stylist gives me is square layers.
Hope this helps 🫶🏼
Trump: He wants to see no crime. He wants to see housing being built. He wants to see rents coming down. All the things that I agree with. We may disagree how we get there, the rent coming down, I think one of the things I really gleaned very much today, he'd like it see them come down, but building a lot of additional housing—that's the ultimate way. He agrees with that and so do I. When you read the newspapers, you don’t see that.