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What? The doctor’s visit is the cheapest part of healthcare. Procedures cost far more, and pharm far more again. Perhaps you’re outside of the US, though I can’
by arkades 9y ago
What? The doctor’s visit is the cheapest part of healthcare. Procedures cost far more, and pharm far more again. Perhaps you’re outside of the US, though I can’t think of a country where this isn’t true.
- jessaustin 9y agoDon't forget diagnostic scans and tests. Those are quite expensive. However GP is proposing a service that doesn't actually exist now: paying a medical expert to spend a lot of time considering a challenging case. It would have obvious benefits, so we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand just because it would be too cheap.
- nitrogen 9y agoThere was a now-defunct attempt at this called MetaMed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed I'm curious if any others have succeeded.
- feiofh398r39rty 9y agoIt is very informative to read the founder's attempt to explain why MetaMed failed: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/ https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-sy...