Absolutely insane
American went into an imaging center at Stanford to get an MRI
She just received the bill, it’s $34,000…. For one MRI…
The imagining center bills as if it’s a hospital, even though it doesn’t say hospital on the sign. Just getting an MRI here you are also billed for “hospital fees”
I looked into this and it’s definitely separate from the hospital
- Stanford Medicine Imaging Center at 451 Sherman Ave, Palo Alto is a Stanford Health Care site
- Stanford’s own pages brand it as an “imaging center” offering MRI and CT
- The main hospital at 300 Pasteur Drive
But because it’s part of the “hospital system” they are billing as if they’re a hospital and adding on all these fees
You ready for this,
Under current federal rules, off-campus HOPDs more than 250 yards from the main hospital can still bill as hospital outpatient
What a SCAM
We need healthcare reform and we need it right now
Doctors are hardballed and cucked so often because from the moment a candidate enters medical school, they are buck broken into accepting that they are being given a privilege to be trained in and practice something by the system. The virtue of being a physician was hijacked and used against us.
In reality, the "system" owns you from M1 till you're an attending, makes you go six figures into debt while providing an absurd amount of labor and while holding a gun to your career if you don't bend the knee and accept having zero power or recourse. And even when you're an attending you're expected to just bend over and "do the right thing" while mainting ALL responsibility while every other part of the healthcare system gets to advocate for themselves.
Dr. Lawrence-Reid being told "only nurses get overtime" highlights the situation well. Nurses have immense power, doctors are cucked. If a licensed, board certified MD or DO wanted to work as an RN, he would have to go to nursing school. Nurses wanted to enter "physician territory" and all they had to do was invent some little "bridge program" that could be completed in 1-2 years, half online.
Things are slowly cracking though. More docs are realizing this cuckery and are opting out, which is leading to systems like locums, direct patient care, concierge, cash practice taking hold.
URGENT:
My parents, Ramesh and Neelam Sharma are currently missing following the flood at the Nepal-Tibet/China border. They are both U.S. Citizens.
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Suicide is now the LEADING cause of death for US medical residents.
We are losing 500 physicians a year. That is an entire med school class. Stop demanding "resilience" from doctors and start fixing the system.
Tie executive bonuses to wellness, not just RVUs.
Link to the recent episode is in the comments 👇
Woman on tiktok reported how she and her husband got root canals on the same day, same doc. He got percoset, she got ibuprofen. Dentist said, "women handle pain better." Comment section filled with women reporting similar experiences. You will never convince me that patriarchy & gender inequality isn't to blame for this cruelty. Underneath the "women can handle pain better" line is "women are supposed to suffer."
Watching the man next to me in the hospital getting morphine for his belly ache but I get sent home with tylenol-ibuprofen for an ovarian cyst that ruptured inside of me and told to "wait it out, it'll go away"