Daniel Gonzalez, MD

Dermatopathology, Pathology Informatics, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@Wario64 Thank you! Got one!

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@SenRickScott @MarioDB Please show your support for our country's physicians and patients by cosponsoring and passing H.R. 879, the "Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act" #FixMedicareNow

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@Spudsybud @tw_fragrances Very interesting. Which one's the best? This is a great concept.

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@Spudsybud did everyone else experience this too

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@MarioDB Please show your support for our country's physicians and their patients by co-sponsoring H.R. 879, the "Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act," today!

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@laughingatyou27 @ironmantr95 @Wario64 I'm still in line... 3 of my devices were in line but got kicked out about an hour ago. Just my phone app is left

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@GameDevMadeEasy @Steve417 people at my local microcenter were camping for 36 hours. 50 people 24 hours ahead of time, 80 people 20 hours ahead of time. For 10 cards

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@HENRYY_MD @kis_lorand @tonitatirado @DanGrahamMD @RACARR51 @kriyer68 @DermpathLove @MarcelaSaebL @mccalmo @david_terrano nonneurothekeoma

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@chelsssseeeea Will be worth double in 10 years

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@EricLevitz

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@BarryIsVery @SpitItOutSpicer @EricLevitz I think that's where we find common ground. We would also like to be paid according to the fee schedule. But check this out. Rates are cut every year and are threatening practice insolvency https://t.co/KYkK55YGt9

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@BarryIsVery @SpitItOutSpicer @EricLevitz The opportunity cost would cause the more skilled anesthesiologists who are capable of making more to leave and pursue other specialties or even other careers that will get them more value for the amount of time and effort they put in. This idea can be generalized any profession

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

The amount of hate doctors are getting right now is off the charts, and people just don’t seem to get the consequences of it.

Let’s get something straight: doctors didn’t go into this field to watch patients suffer or get rich quick. The fact that people think that is honestly laughable. The years of sacrifice, the debt we carry, I t’s unreal.

No one signed up for a system where we barely get time with patients who have to wait months, sometimes over a year, to see us. That’s not why we chose this.

Most of us became doctors because we genuinely wanted to help people. We started out excited, hopeful, and ready to make a difference. But then reality hit. Hard.

The truth? Doctors are leaving in droves. Some are starting private practices, others are just walking away. A lot are ditching insurance altogether, and honestly, I get it. Insurance companies have made practicing medicine harder than ever, and it’s draining our ability to actually help people.

We KNOW how bad the system is. We know patients struggle to get care. We know many of you have been let down by the system. WE’RE FRUSTRATED TOO. But if more doctors leave, who will be left to take care of you and your family?

We didn’t sign up to practice medicine like this. A lot of us are trying to change it from the inside, but it’s exhausting, physically, mentally, and emotionally. We didn’t become doctors to spend 10 minutes with you and barely have the time to help.

Meanwhile, people are using the broken system to spread mistrust: “Doctors only care about money” they say. But when it’s an emergency, who do you call?

I don’t have all the answers, but I’m doing everything I can to fight for this profession I love. There’s no other career I’d want. But it’s tough watching colleagues and patients struggle because of a system that’s broken.

So if there’s a doctor you’re grateful for, let them know. It’ll mean more than you think.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Blaming physicians as ‘overpaid’ is not only misguided but also a blatant misunderstanding of reality.

Physician compensation has decreased in real terms over the years, even as their workloads and administrative burdens have skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, journalists and reporters, like Vox guy below, rarely go after the real culprits—insurance companies and health systems—because that’s where their bread is buttered.

Advertising revenue from these entities keeps their publications afloat, so instead of holding the true power players accountable, they target doctors.

It’s easier, it’s sensational, and it deflects attention from the inefficiencies and price gouging that make healthcare unaffordable.

Physicians aren’t the problem—they’re the ones keeping the system from collapsing entirely.

#healthcare

[Ed Livingston @ehlJAMA]

What a completely stupid article written in @voxdotcom by @EricLevitz -They appear to know nothing about how surgery and anesthesiology works.

"Rather, it would have reduced payments for some of the most overpaid physicians in America."

So-who would you rather pay? The insurance company executives or the clinicians who take you to the brink of death and back when you need surgery.

I can tell you from the perspective of someone who ran a surgical service line and has performed many thousands of operations that there is a huge difference in outcomes between the delivery of good and bad anesthesia.

You get what you pay for.

If you think you can squeeze the reimbursements of highly skilled and specialized clinicians and still have good outcomes-you are wrong. The problem here is that if you get substandard clinicians in the OR, people die.

It should be known that the anesthesiologists have been more successful than any other medical discipline in improving patient safety and reducing adverse events. They should get credit for that and, as a consequence, be paid for their efforts.

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@EricLevitz Physicians are not overpaid for the amount of work that we do. I understand you have family that are physicians. If you understood how arduous not just the training is, but the job, I think you would change your mind on that.

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@BarryIsVery @SpitItOutSpicer @EricLevitz You don't understand that if you pay them any less they will simply do other jobs that require less training with more payout and you'll be left with no doctors. You're not considering the cost of education or the time spent training for an additional 12 years

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@EricLevitz

[Daniel Gonzalez, MD @DgonzMD]

@HENRYY_MD @et565 @tonitatirado @mccalmo @EssaoudiMohamed @gonzadetoro @david_terrano @ZibaRahbar @RACARR51

[The Digital Pathology Association @dpatweet]

We're excited to celebrate Phoenix Yu Wilkie, a PhD candidate in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, as a 2024 Travel Award Recipient at #PathVisions2024!

Congratulations, Phoenix!