Cost money/time to cure people. Cheaper to just manage conditions.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Tell that to the doctor that said I had a blocked salivary gland and to "just suck on some sour candy". I had a tooth abscess (I even told the doctor that) and ended up in the ER for nearly a week. Costed insurance 28 thousand dollars for a procedure that normally costs a couple hundred at most (tooth pull).
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In fairness, they're the last reaort, so would happen after the "have you tried meditation?" Doesn't work.
"That'll be $200, please."
Those are 1990s numbers (yes, really). Now, add a zero and some change.
I think my visit seeking prophylactics when I was exposed to HIV (and the doctor just said, "nah, don't worry about it, I'm not prescribing you") was $1500 for the doctor, $1500 to the hospital... God damn that was a shock.
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The reality is this varies highly not just by individual doctor but by doctor group.
And whether or not they’re willing to consult a specialist while you’re in a hospital.
Spoiler: they lose money if they do this because only so much is available to be paid out for each patient. Second spoiler: sometimes seeing a specialist while hospitalized means getting transferred 100+ miles away to another hospital because that hospital doesn’t have any of that specialist available. Third spoiler: Level 1 hospitals are few and far between (they have everything).
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Yeah but that doesn't cure Lupus
Good thing it is never Lupus
hospitals in italy are like this too
this vexes me