Caroline Watson MD

Fellowship-trained ophthalmologist specializing in refractive cataract surgery, standard cataract surgery, clear lens exchange, ICL, LASIK, PRK, SMILE

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

I just wrote a review on Welt Played Sofa https://t.co/XESzPK3As2 via @yotpo

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@Shubham14281781 @SevendersOTW @petrosoniak @ClementLeeMD It’s funny bc it’s true…..

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@DutchRojas @elonmusk

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

There was a time when medicine was a noble pursuit, a realm for the skilled, the driven, the brilliant.

A time when physicians stood as masters of their craft, when innovation was bound only by the limits of human ingenuity.

That time is gone.

In its place stands a grotesque monument to mediocrity, built not by healers but by bureaucrats, middlemen, and political charlatans.

A system where the incompetent dictate to the competent, where those who produce are shackled by those who leech.

They call it healthcare.

It is not.
It is a cartel.

A machine engineered to extract, to obscure, to consolidate power in the hands of those who would not last a day in the operating room, the emergency room, the laboratory, or the trenches where real medicine happens.

The grift is staggering.

Trillions wasted.

Prices inflated beyond reason.
Access rationed, not by merit, not by innovation, but by bureaucratic decree.

The patient is not a priority, only a number, a pawn in a game of financial manipulation.

But there is a weapon against this decay: transparency.

The parasites fear it.
They know that once the numbers are visible, the illusion crumbles.

They know that when patients see the truth, when physicians are freed from the yoke of opacity, their reign ends.

The choice is clear:

Expose them, or be ruled by them.
Tear down their fortress of fraud, or resign yourself to servitude.

There is no middle ground.

Let the light in. Let the truth be known.

And let those who heal, who create, who build finally take back what is rightfully theirs.

#healthcare

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@elonmusk Yes yes yes….lets talk about this and physician reimbursement. I get paid roughly 350$ for 1 cataract surgery through Medicare while hospital admin takes in 7 figure salaries @elonmusk. It took me a decade to get through med school, residency and fellowship to learn that skill.

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

Here are a few ideas that both parties should embrace:

• Drop the mandates under the ACA (Obamacare) and
let people choose the coverage they need

• Site-neutral payments, hospitals should not be
allowed to charge facility fees

• Let physicians own hospitals, we need competition

• We need to pay no more than other comparable
countries do for drugs. This will save hundreds of
billions of dollars.

• Remove the safe harbor for the Anti-Kickback Law for
GPOs and PBMs. This allows them to make Billions
selling access to markets.

• Price transparency: every healthcare facility must
present all charges to you prior to the service
being rendered.

• Allow health insurance to be purchased across the state
lines

• Every employee of the Department of Health and
Human Services must sign a statement that they will
not work for a private-sector healthcare company
for ten years after leaving the dept of HHS.

• Repeal Stark and certificate of need laws. Both laws
are a barrier to innovation.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major driver of healthcare cost

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@TrumpTrainX @elonmusk Yesss!!!! Thank you!!

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@elonmusk Hospital CEOs ranking in 7 figure salaries while physicians, staff and surgeons do all the work. Would love to see this system remodeled @elonmusk

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@RIDICULO_pathy @Calamondins1 This hospital is actually in a very affluent area of the Florida panhandle. It’s not a teaching hospital but still has reasonable services. I read that this isn’t the first time he’s removed the wrong organ or part of one.

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@Randolph_FB @RAIDERSonGarth Go Feve!!! Yay! So proud ❤️

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

Very generalized statement. Healthcare is not one size fits all & I know many MD led PE groups that focus on pt. outcomes. PE helps provide resources that solo MD's wouldn't have the means to do so. I welcome you to continue this convo with those who have gone this route.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Every physician who sells their practice to private equity is choosing to make health care worse for everybody. I hope the money helps you sleep at night, because you have made life worse for every single patient and employee walking into your PE Daddy’s practice.

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

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[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

Going to #caribbeaneyemeeting ? Join me on Saturday am where Ill be speaking on "Ocular Surface Reconstruction with AMT" as well as representing @DompeFarma and @ZEISS_Group for their industry spotlight sessions.

[Wills Eye Hospital @Wills_Eye]

Dr. Christopher J. Rapuano shares the importance of getting a good patient history and understanding their symptoms when diagnosing dry eye in this @RevOphth article: https://t.co/LNgTNkaw3W

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

Earlier this month I had the chance to work with one of my greatest mentors in #eyecare @Wiley2020 ! Always great to work and continue to learn from one of the best. #ophthalmology #aao

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@EyeFlyMD Cruciate.. 8mJ..5-7 shots.

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@cataractMD @BlueDiamond It matters to me Gary !!!

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

@calshu We've all been there!

[Caroline Watson MD @cwatsonmd2020]

Really proud with all the effort that has been put to help build my practice. Check out the article I wrote for @CRSToday on my journey with a unique PE-backed private practice model. #privatepractive #privateequity #ophthalmology https://t.co/xCP0Ia0yyh