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Everything is optimized for corporations to make more money, to avoid liability and maximize the billable dollars. Doctors want to move meat as quick as possibl
by thelastgallon 1y ago
Everything is optimized for corporations to make more money, to avoid liability and maximize the billable dollars. Doctors want to move meat as quick as possible, most consultations are a couple of minutes! Every doctor has to be part of this rat race because of how the system is designed!
"More than 200,000 people will die each year from preventable medical errors. He was shocked. Conservatively, these estimates amount to at least one fatal Boeing 747 crash per week."
"Doctors talk about electronic medical records as an unpleasant and frustrating chore. They object to how the charts have evolved to prioritize billing and liability defense over clinical care. And they regard the symphony of well-meaning alerts and pop-ups as a distraction at best."
"The check boxes and templates can aid efficiency, several doctors told me, but they also may distract physicians from the patients right in front of them."
- IAmBroom 1y ago> Doctors want to move meat as quick as possible, I don't know a single doctor who wants this. Insurance companies want this. Don't blame healthcare workers for the hellish scenarios they are forced to work under.
- gowld 1y agoA doctor (who is is a licensed professional, not unskilled labor) could accept lower pay for less work (fewer patients seen), instead high pay for less work (false-treating patients).
- roywiggins 1y agoDoctors can't build bigger ERs or hospitals, you need physical infrastructure to give patients extra time.
- ikiris 1y agoThis is laughably out of touch with the actual limits of care. It’s nursing staff and the shortage is a willingness to pay the costs of staffing.
- sarchertech 1y agoA doctor running their own private practice could do that. Most doctors don’t operate this way. Their boss isn’t going to let them take up additional resources (rooms, nursing staff etc…) so that they can spend 30 minutes with each patient instead of 15 even if they are willing to take less money.
- Eric_WVGG 1y agoalso see the private equity takeover of hospitals
- ModernMech 1y agoIt might be better put that doctors are incentivized to do this, and they are willingly doing things they're incentivized to do.
- VirusNewbie 1y agoThe hospitals in my area are non profit, my insurance company is non profit, I mean, where is the money hungry corporation in this story?
- hn_acc1 1y agoNon-profit doesn't mean the board/CEO/etc aren't getting paid HUGE salaries..
- VirusNewbie 1y agoBut that's not really a 'corporation's fault', right? And your theory is that the reason medical care is so outrageously priced is so the CEO and the board of directors can get exorbitant salaries?
- chmod775 1y ago>I mean, where is the money hungry corporation in this story? In the staffing and service provider companies the nonprofit funnels its money into. And let's not even mention the cost of medical devices and medicine.
- sarchertech 1y agoThere are almost certainly physicians groups operating out of that hospital that are for-profit and likely owned by PE. A large part of your bill is going to come from them.