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[DirtDocMD]

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/04/22/physicians-team-with-practice-groups-manage-care.html?ana=yahoo

Hey, they wanna “team” with you...

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[POW16]

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/04/22/physicians-team-with-practice-groups-manage-care.html?ana=yahoo

Hey, they wanna “team” with you...

Article is behind a pay wall.

 

[nimbus]

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/04/22/physicians-team-with-practice-groups-manage-care.html?ana=yahoo

Hey, they wanna “team” with you...

Paywalled but what role do they claim on the “team”? What do they charge for it?

 

[IMGASMD]

All the buzzwords. Hard pass.

 

[GaseousClay]

Article is behind a pay wall.

pro tip: disable javascript on google chrome or your browser and you can read every article behind these paywalls from nyt, wall street journal, etc

 

[GassYous]

copy paste

 

[DirtDocMD]

Sorry. It let me read it.

Typical “fluff-piece”, with a bunch of business guys acting like they’re doing Docs a favor by “freeing” them from all the rules/regs that biz/government have concocted, so that Docs can spend their time “taking care of patients” (read: being pushed by their corporate overlords to see more patients/generate revenue).

Kinda like a farmer telling his mule he’s doing him a favor by feeding him, so he doesn’t have to waste time grazing a green pasture, when he COULD be spending his time pulling a plow...

 

[coffeebythelake]

Sorry. It let me read it.

Typical “fluff-piece”, with a bunch of business guys acting like they’re doing Docs a favor by “freeing” them from all the rules/regs that biz/government have concocted, so that Docs can spend their time “taking care of patients” (read: being pushed by their corporate overlords to see more patients/generate revenue).

Kinda like a farmer telling his mule he’s doing him a favor by feeding him, so he doesn’t have to waste time grazing a green pasture, when he COULD be spending his time pulling a plow...

This is the same **** that businessmen pulled years ago, and now they are the C suite and executives of hospital systems making big bonuses while trying to cut your pay and force you to be "more efficient"

 

[GravelRider]

The lie begins earlier on the road. The lie begins in college and med school when you are told you are special for being a doctor. You don a white coat in a ridiculous ceremony and imagine you are on some noble path. The real mystery is that doctors thought they were immune to the corporate capitalist machine. It was only a matter of time until capitalists found ways to make money off the labor in the healthcare. Production pressures, discussions of efficiency, and cost containment were not things that we thought about in a pre-industrial society when a doctor took care of the people in his community. It’s a product of the capitalist influence on medicine. Medicine has been industrialized like every other industry on the planet. We can talk about the pros and cons of that, but the point is we were never immune to the process. No one is. You are not special. Welcome to modernity.

 

[nimbus]

The lie begins earlier on the road. The lie begins in college and med school when you are told you are special for being a doctor. You don a white coat in a ridiculous ceremony and imagine you are on some noble path. The real mystery is that doctors thought they were immune to the corporate capitalist machine. It was only a matter of time until capitalists found ways to make money off the labor in the healthcare. Production pressures, discussions of efficiency, and cost containment were not things that we thought about in a pre-industrial society when a doctor took care of the people in his community. It’s a product of the capitalist influence on medicine. Medicine has been industrialized like every other industry on the planet. We can talk about the pros and cons of that, but the point is we were never immune to the process. No one is. You are not special. Welcome to modernity.

Capitalists have turned hospitals into factories and we are the assembly line workers. They even apply metrics and performance improvement models directly adapted from industry. We might as well be making Corollas.

 

[narcotics999]

Capitalists have turned hospitals into factories and we are the assembly line workers. They even apply metrics and performance improvement models directly adapted from industry. We might as well be making Corollas.

HCA's stock price dropped by 20% today. Tenet by 15%.

 

[CHARLESTONMMM]

Capitalists have turned hospitals into factories and we are the assembly line workers. They even apply metrics and performance improvement models directly adapted from industry. We might as well be making Corollas.

If that’s the case then the next step would be to unionize.

 

[IMGASMD]

Capitalists have turned hospitals into factories and we are the assembly line workers. They even apply metrics and performance improvement models directly adapted from industry. We might as well be making Corollas.

I’d like to think I am making a Porsche, or at least a BMW. When in reality I am making a Kia.

 

[vector2]

Capitalists have turned hospitals into factories and we are the assembly line workers. They even apply metrics and performance improvement models directly adapted from industry. We might as well be making Corollas.

I just did orientation for a locums job at a large health system a few weeks ago and in some of the propaganda introduction videos the CEO called patients either "clients" or "customers" the entire time.

 

[Zekchar]

If that’s the case then the next step would be to unionize.

This is the future. Eventually it will happen.
1) Single payor? Unionize and collectively bargain
2) Getting effed by corporate overlords? Unionize and collectively bargain?

Once physicians get over themselves that they are not heros and are instead the sacrificial lambs in this game, then they will wise up to the poor state of affairs. Our time is valuable and we are giving it out for free. Never ever do anything unless being paid for it. Especially if your skills are in high demand.

1) Can you volunteer for committee X that takes up 3 hours a week and pays $0? No
2) Can you stay late today, we're short staffed? No or Sure ... pay is 1.5x since this is now overtime
3) Can you put this protocol together on your weekend instead of hanging out with your husband and kids? No or give me a day off from clinical duties for me to complete this

 

[Zekchar]

The lie begins earlier on the road. The lie begins in college and med school when you are told you are special for being a doctor. You don a white coat in a ridiculous ceremony and imagine you are on some noble path. The real mystery is that doctors thought they were immune to the corporate capitalist machine. It was only a matter of time until capitalists found ways to make money off the labor in the healthcare. Production pressures, discussions of efficiency, and cost containment were not things that we thought about in a pre-industrial society when a doctor took care of the people in his community. It’s a product of the capitalist influence on medicine. Medicine has been industrialized like every other industry on the planet. We can talk about the pros and cons of that, but the point is we were never immune to the process. No one is. You are not special. Welcome to modernity.

Love this. There is no calling. There is no hero bulcrap. There is churn and burn only. Everything else is just a way to get more labor out of you at a cheaper price than what its really worth, in ever increasing amounts.

 

[nimbus]

I’d like to think I am making a Porsche, or at least a BMW. When in reality I am making a Kia.

We are aiming for cheap and reliable

 

[coffeebythelake]

We are aiming for cheap and reliable

Midlevels would be lemons