@olsonplanner Thank you as always for the great information! Does this general advice apply to those who just graduated in 2024 and are about to get to the end of their grace period?
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.
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Consistently make the joke (complaint) to non-medical folks that this is one of the only jobs that you pay for the privilege of working. Medical students basically do the job of MAs, but for free to the institutions and at cost to the students #MedicalStudents#MedTwitter
Hot take (maybe):
Medical Students should be paid their third and fourth years, ESPECIALLY when their work is billable. Not many other careers require you to pay such large sums of money to train while your work is profited off of, usually it’s the reverse…
having med students on the team is the best because they will randomly say things like “alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency” and make everyone have to remember what that is
Proud of you dude! It feels amazing to be acknowledged like this! I made a care suggestion for a patient last weekend that was utilized, and it made me feel like a real doctor 🤟
Your plane has crashed and you are stranded with a toxicologist, who you already ate because they were annoying.
You come across this plant. Should you eat it? Just the seeds? What do you think?
I’m really all for this. I try to talk about my Ls and failures in a tactful way to others. A little failure here and there is a great teacher and reminds us that we’re human!
Shared a lot of wins publicly in 2021, so it feels appropriate to share the losses just as publicly.
Here are my 10 biggest Ls from 2021 (and what I learned from each one):