Sorry! You Won’t See a Doctor!
Finally, the mainstream media (CNN) is starting to notice and publicly acknowledge the obvious elephant in the room: When you seek healthcare, you likely will never see a doctor.
Editor’s Note: read the CNN article but be warned. You may need to have a vomit bag handy. Corporate medicine and their “blended model” is absolute bullshit and is killing what’s left of our healthcare system.
I wrote about this in DPC News today. Here is what I said:
If you are unaware of what is happening with Private Equity (PE) groups, you will be in for a shock. I am just going to leave you with some quotes or buzzwords from the article:
- “shift of staffing”
- “blended model”
- “to provide care to their fullest potential.”
- go into medicine to supervise an army of people
- employ “the least expensive resource”
Yes, you say, but this article is about ERs. While that is true it is also happening to primary care —- rapidly. Get out. Start your DPC today. Buy the books. Go to the conferences. Join the DPC Alliance. Start NOW!
Doug Farrago
NO GUTS NO GLORY…EVERYTHING IS A BUSINESS MODEL. FOLLOW THE MONEY..
All applied to PHYSICIANS and their ORGANIZATIONS,PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, STATE BOARDS. ALL PART OF PROBLEM.. TECHNOLOGY CHANGING, HAD A PHYSICIAN TELL ME THEY NO LONGER TEACH PHYSICAL EXAM SKILLS IN HER SCHOOL.TOUCHING A PATIENT IS SELDOM DONE. TECHNOLOGY, BETTER!!.. SOMETIMES, BUT EVEN TECH HAS LIMITS.and the Best Tech of ALL is between your Ears.. As a PA-C who was often utilized as a cheap Doctor for 46 years, did not have a close relationship with my supervising physician,which I wanted, but seldom had, it has been most Frustrating.. So Have Fun, FIX IT.ITS YOUR MESS
GOOD LUCK TO US ALL.
“what is happening with Private Equity (PE) groups”
And the response of our medical societies? Crickets!
They’d much rather blame their members for all the problems of modern medicine.