The root problem is that COVID is big business for hospitals and doctors, with compensation for a single covid positive case ranging from about $200K to around $500K depending on which state its in, and whether the patient dies (more if they do). Until that perverse incentive is removed, nothing is going to change.
The root problem is that COVID is big business for hospitals and doctors, with compensation for a single covid positive case ranging from about $200K to around $500K depending on which state its in, and whether the patient dies (more if they do). Until that perverse incentive is removed, nothing is going to change.
I saw the predecessor of this disgusting practice years ago when my mom died of cancer. For six months they "could find nothing" until they recommended a surgery to correct a bowel blockage. The surgeon came walking out about an hour into a four hour job to tell us her entire abdomen was filled with cancer. She went to hospice and died 8 days later. The six month bill to medicare was north of $600K and when I saw it I immediately understood why they "couldn't find anything" even though she had eight of ten WebMD symptoms for her particular cancer. Methodist Houston.
Lost my own mother to the same thing in '95. Knoxville, TN. Some things never change. Look at the crystal and marble "cancer centers" in every city in the country - the billions (trillions?) spent on "cancer treatments:" which provide little if any benefit except employment for the oncology industry. It is truly amazing and depressing.
Amazingly, my border collie was also full of cancer a year later. Vet found it with a single $25 abdominal x-ray on the first visit. He showed it to me and said "See all that in there that looks like bubbles in the abdomen? Cancer.
Your story is heartbreaking. I remember one of my doctors being concerned back in the 80s about a new "managed care" model that was rolling out. He foresaw just what has happened to the practice of medicine. As for Houston Methodist, last year they withdrew hospital privileges for an ENT named Mary Bowden, who rarely used the hospital. Her crime was that she stepped up to treat covid patients and used the meds that were not "approved." She was helping people! She is suing the hospital now. https://thetexan.news/dr-mary-bowden-files-25-million-defamation-lawsuit-against-houston-methodist-hospital/
In their defense, they do not usually go into it for the $$$, IMO. They tend to be caring people who want to help others. The System beats a lot of the empathy/sympathy out of them and they are so saddled with debt when they finish training that they can see no way out other than to become a cog in the machine. They are also indoctrinated as to the need for expensive, complicated technology to make diagnoses and treat people when their own brains - if engaged - would provide superior diagnostic outcomes and more natural integrative treatments that are far cheaper. This cannot happen within out existing techno-fascist Medical Industrial Complex system (yes, it is FASCIST - note how those who question the narrative are hounded and persecuted). I tell myself that this way of "helping" people care for their health is not sustainable and that collapse is inevitable. Hopefully, the time is near and we can create something better when the corporate interests controlling all of this fade away. We shall see!
Absolutely agree there are plenty of doctors who care immensely about the horrors happening now. I was only speaking about the $$$ driven ones (sadly they exist). Also sad that there are once-good docs who have lost their way under managed care and big corporate medical foundations etc.
The root problem is that COVID is big business for hospitals and doctors, with compensation for a single covid positive case ranging from about $200K to around $500K depending on which state its in, and whether the patient dies (more if they do). Until that perverse incentive is removed, nothing is going to change.
I saw the predecessor of this disgusting practice years ago when my mom died of cancer. For six months they "could find nothing" until they recommended a surgery to correct a bowel blockage. The surgeon came walking out about an hour into a four hour job to tell us her entire abdomen was filled with cancer. She went to hospice and died 8 days later. The six month bill to medicare was north of $600K and when I saw it I immediately understood why they "couldn't find anything" even though she had eight of ten WebMD symptoms for her particular cancer. Methodist Houston.
Lost my own mother to the same thing in '95. Knoxville, TN. Some things never change. Look at the crystal and marble "cancer centers" in every city in the country - the billions (trillions?) spent on "cancer treatments:" which provide little if any benefit except employment for the oncology industry. It is truly amazing and depressing.
Amazingly, my border collie was also full of cancer a year later. Vet found it with a single $25 abdominal x-ray on the first visit. He showed it to me and said "See all that in there that looks like bubbles in the abdomen? Cancer.
My same experience with a family member. Milk the system.
Your story is heartbreaking. I remember one of my doctors being concerned back in the 80s about a new "managed care" model that was rolling out. He foresaw just what has happened to the practice of medicine. As for Houston Methodist, last year they withdrew hospital privileges for an ENT named Mary Bowden, who rarely used the hospital. Her crime was that she stepped up to treat covid patients and used the meds that were not "approved." She was helping people! She is suing the hospital now. https://thetexan.news/dr-mary-bowden-files-25-million-defamation-lawsuit-against-houston-methodist-hospital/
So very sad. This is what happens when "doctors" go into the business for $$$ and not healing.
In their defense, they do not usually go into it for the $$$, IMO. They tend to be caring people who want to help others. The System beats a lot of the empathy/sympathy out of them and they are so saddled with debt when they finish training that they can see no way out other than to become a cog in the machine. They are also indoctrinated as to the need for expensive, complicated technology to make diagnoses and treat people when their own brains - if engaged - would provide superior diagnostic outcomes and more natural integrative treatments that are far cheaper. This cannot happen within out existing techno-fascist Medical Industrial Complex system (yes, it is FASCIST - note how those who question the narrative are hounded and persecuted). I tell myself that this way of "helping" people care for their health is not sustainable and that collapse is inevitable. Hopefully, the time is near and we can create something better when the corporate interests controlling all of this fade away. We shall see!
Absolutely agree there are plenty of doctors who care immensely about the horrors happening now. I was only speaking about the $$$ driven ones (sadly they exist). Also sad that there are once-good docs who have lost their way under managed care and big corporate medical foundations etc.
Agree.