if my girl 😇🥰😍 and ROD OF AGES 🤑🤩 are both drowning 💦😫🌊 and i can only save one 😌☝️1️⃣ you can catch me at my girl's funeral 😷☠️⚰️ stacking 🤣🥞📚 20 HEALTH ⛑️ 20 MANA 🥶 AND 4 ABILITY POWER
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