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>> Free markets have their flaws but their big advantage is competition. Medicine is not a "free market", it is tightly controlled. The standards of care are d
by brokenmeds 3y ago
>> Free markets have their flaws but their big advantage is competition.
Medicine is not a "free market", it is tightly controlled. The standards of care are determined by doctors. Doctors also happen to control the supply of care and hence the price of care. Doctors also happen to rake in money doing all this.
You cannot just release a medical device or medicine like you release code into github.
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoDoctors do not go generally into medicine the way devs go into startups. It’s a generally garbage approach if your goal is to make money, nephrology included. Doctors generally want better patient outcomes and better patient lives but are too squeezed by insurance, student debt, and other bullshit. You can bet your ass that if there’s a transplant that radically improves outcomes, nephrology will be all for it. It’s extremely frustrating and deeply demoralizing to tell someone they will need to be on dialysis, which you know all the nuances of the suckitude of, a task nephrologists need to do more and more often as Americans age with worse health due to lifestyle issues. I don’t doubt there won’t be a minority of doctors who are just money grubbing but the vast majority of doctors would rather be able to say, “hey, I have a solution for you which relieves you from the permanent life quality burden of dialysis”.
- DennisP 3y agoI said "if the government approves this device." And if it does, there are about 1300 transplant nephrologists in the US who make their money from doing transplants, not from dialysis.