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> “And that isn’t worth something? Prescribing better treatments?” > “Hmmmm,” she said, picking at her fingernails. “Not directly. Of course I always have the
by _bxg1 7y ago
> “And that isn’t worth something? Prescribing better treatments?”
> “Hmmmm,” she said, picking at her fingernails. “Not directly. Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it’s not like they’ll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won’t come back more often or refer more friends. So I’d sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?”
I've never seen such a concise indictment of the American healthcare model.
- thundergolfer 7y agoIf this thing works as a better search engine for medicine, then I'd want my doctor using it. Could this person have trialled it in a healthcare system with a public-option? Convince the government your product is a benefit to their doctors and by extension their citizens, and a good government should pay you for it after a proper trial. Instead he walked into a situation where the incentives are utterly fucked by an atomised, privatised, and consumer-oriented healthcare system.