Read any article or watch any news segment about the coronavirus affecting our healthcare system and you will notice a trend: hospitals are the main concern.
How can we ensure hospital-employed physicians have access to personal protective equipment? What happens if hospitals begin to lose revenue at astronomical rates, or if their doctors fall ill?
What about independent physicians? As someone who has spent her entire career in independent practice (and currently here in Annapolis), protective equipment, revenue and reimbursement rates, and personal safety are always at the forefront of my mind. Amid the current pandemic, these issues are tenfold.
Many independent physicians are coping with unprecedented financial losses and burdens that threaten the survival of our practices; and unlike billion-dollar health systems, we don’t have teams of lobbyists or publicists pressing our case with lawmakers and the media.
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15 comments:
Independent physicians are the only way to go. The practices owned by the hospitals you are getting sub standard care. It's like assembly line medical care. They want the doctors to see patients like every 15 minutes. That is not practical and is extremely dangerous for patients.
MASTER PLAN!! All healthcare government controlled and citizens totally dependent on government subsidy. Where do you people see that you live in a free society?? You are already a socialist country and you're too dumb to realize it
Medical consortia are waiting to snatch these up.
Does this all seem as though it might have been planned?
May 25, 2020 at 10:16 AM ok Doctor.
I received the worst care and the most unbelievable rude conduct from the local privately owned ent office. The place is a joke and when googled everything bad said about them, was what I received.
There is absolutely no fact for your statement
I had to drive elsewhere to get proper compassionate care.
The guy going door to door offering discount Gyno exams is doing pretty good.
Democrats will push this, since Pelosi got her face lifts and other elective surgeries, which makes her look more like a shiny BABOON's A$$.
10:46 Do you know how incredible ignorant you sound? First off I am sure you are a liar but secondly to even try and suggest being rude and not compassionate equates to quality of care is asinine. Totally asinine. Do you even know how to think?
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"May 25, 2020 at 10:16 AM ok Doctor.
I received the worst care and the most unbelievable rude conduct from the local privately owned ent office. The place is a joke and when googled everything bad said about them, was what I received.
There is absolutely no fact for your statement
I had to drive elsewhere to get proper compassionate care.
May 25, 2020 at 10:46 AM"
Lots and lots of "facts" to back up that the conglomerate owned doctors' office's don't offer the same quality of care. It is called Assembly Line Medicine and it's been under fire for the sub standard care offered for at least 10 years. . Just because the thought never crossed your pea brain doesn't mean the facts don't exist. This is a major issue with you people You have no idea what goes on in the real world.
LOL 10:59 and ignoramuses like 10:46 would no doubt fall for it so long as he wasn't "rude" and showed "compassionate "care"". People around here are so low information and so dumb that it's funny.
What is dumb and funny are idiots that don't know the meaning of rude and or the definition of, lack of compassion and how it equates to poor care
Like listening to what your patient has to say and providing an actual verifiable clear diagnosis. Not being a condescending jerk. Taking the proper time, care and tests.
All doctors offices are an assembly line, privately or not privately owned. That's the flaw in your unsubstantiated theory.
Subpar care, rude behavior, lacking compassion seem to be the norm around here. Goes along with commenters such as 11:44, 11:42 and 11:37 who is also 10:16 trying to back up their comment - rude, lacking understanding and compassion.
Laughable.
The reviews online support my comment, not yours. There is a common thread in all the complaints.
You are just talking out of your arse and didn't even bother to investigate my comment.
10:59 I have my shirt from when I drove a Pabst Beer Truck, I could help this guy out by wearing it and offering to do a certain test!
It's definitely assembly line healthcare here in Salisbury. PRMC has bought up or is partnered with just about all the local practice's. You have to ask questions and force further testing for health issues and if it doesn't fit into their practice guidelines they show NO interest or urgency. I've got a lung nogule and had pain for the last two years in my side but because the nogule is growing minimally they won't do a biopsy of it to see if it's cancerous
What used to be a fifteen minute exam with a physician is now three with 12 minutes of paperwork on the computer. Most of the automated care plan stuff is signed off but never done.
1:10 I agree. My family member for over 3 yrs running around between Salisbury Berlin even Lewes DE this test after that test this medicine after that medicine. We got fed up and spoke a doctor we are good friends with who used to be with U of MD in Baltimore now has a large radiography practice in NY. He suggested staying away from hospital owned offices. So we went with Dr Teija in Georgetown. It's him and his wife. He's flat fee and takes no insurance. After 2 appointments which one was an hour the other almost 1 1/2 hr spent with the doctor himself. He put together a plan which included taking my family member off some medicines, adjusting others and adding another feels like a completely new person. Blood pressure finally under control and 2 other conditions gone. The only test we had to get was blood. He wanted to see if there were any changes from a prior one we showed him.
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