Like many things in medicine, #healthinsurance makes it more expensive, not less.
We can dispense generic for members of our #directprimarycare#familymedicine practice for about $14 and up for 30 tabs but Mark Cuban's #costplus pharmacy has it for even less (no relationship with them):
"'Nationally, the primary physician works hard and has a lot of responsibilities but not well compensated compared to other specialties, so if you and me are in the same class and we have the same amount of debt, but you chose a specialty, I'm choosing to be a family physician, my pay is about half of yours,' Xu said."
New research from South Korea suggests that interacting with dogs can affect brain activity to make people feel relaxed and improve concentration. For the study, 30 participants met, played with, fed, massaged, groomed, photographed, hugged and walked a four-year-old poodle named Aro, as changes in their brainwaves were measured. Here's more from NBC.
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Great timing for this article, I've been bringing our 9 month old #poodle to my #familymedicine practice all this week.
We'll see if she train to be a #therapydog eventually.
"Over the last decade, however, health experts have increasingly recognized that boys and men also suffer from eating disorders, and they have gained a better understanding of how differently the illness presents in that group. A small but growing body of scientists and physicians have dedicated themselves to identifying the problem, assessing its scope and developing treatments." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/health/adolescents-boys-eating-disorders.html
When you leave work and find a sweet message from the mums of a toddler patient who has been very sick for the last few weeks because politicians and health leaders didn’t think it was worth preventing spread of #COVID19. This is #FamilyMedicine in the community. Small kindnesses, an antidote to the hate on social media and in our streets.
In counterpoint to all that’s nasty these days, returned from summer holidays to a kind letter from patients, thanking me for showing up as an ally at the #Ottawa#trans rights march on Aug 25.
I can’t wait to see my wonderful patients again today - the joy of connection in family medicine - and also back to trustee work this evening.
How Health Insurers Have Made Appealing Denials So Complicated
"I spoke with more than 50 insurance experts, patients, lawyers, physicians and consumer advocates about building a tool anyone could use to navigate insurance appeals.
"Nearly everyone said the same thing: Great idea. But almost impossible to do."
We're a #directprimarycare#familymedicine practice but still run into this frequently with insurers, i.e. automatic denials, followed by complicated time consuming online forms and phone calls, even "peer to peer" for tests that meet their criteria.
Hello, I am interested in #MedEd, #primarycare, and #publichealth. By day, I teach medical students health systems science, take care of uninsured patients, and currently study Vietnamese Americans and COVID-19. By night, I volunteer with Doctors for America and progressive Vietnamese American organization PIVOT. Always down for chatter about K-pop and K-dramas.