I found this article is so naive and cute. The author seems amazed that when a doctor leaves a hospital system the staff will NOT tell a patient where they went. The doctor just vanishes and the patients feel ghosted by it. This is called punishment and not ghosting. This is what hospitals do. This…
Every year I try to make a point to wish every physician a Happy Doctor’s Day! You may think this is a bogus holiday or occasion but it isn’t. While nurses get a week and other groups may get a month, we only get a day. One freaking day! And even then most hospital employers…
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Have you heard? Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina are combining with the Oregon-based insurer Cambia Health Solutions, and the two companies would together cover around six million people and have about $16 billion in combined revenue. Here was what one of the Blue Cross CEO’s said: “We have to do something different…
Theranos was going to change the landscape of healthcare. Nope. If you haven’t seen the documentary on HBO then I highly recommend you do. It’s called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. They failed. A ton of others are also trying but nothing yet. I am bothered that these techies get tons of…
HCSC, Health Care Service Corp, the parent of the Blues plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, didn’t pay any federal taxes in 2018. They did receive a $1.7 billion tax refund, which increased their company’s net profit to $4.1 billion. How are you taxes going? Are you getting a refund? Happy tax…
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“But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.” William…