People want to invest in health and crave direction. Problem in the past was lack of actionable information to construct their steps to change. (So the doctor being the only “authority” said: follow the government food pyramid and 10,000 steps/day)
- which preceded the current obesity epidemic (thanks organized healthcare!)
The problem now- there’s too much information with the magic pill or “anti-doctor nutrition youtubers” or self published authors of “hacks” ...all taking advantage of the frustration with searching for a “healthy lifestyle”. (Keto, paleo, vegan, fasting, HIIT, yoga, resistance, cardio)
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There is a fear with doctors that if you practice outside the lines of standard medical you will be judged as a “Quack” and shunned. The pervasive feeling to conform to the group think (ie the pressure in a hospital to get vaccinated and display your shot sticker to be part of the “club”) is so indoctrinated behind the scenes that it can be construed with conspiracy theory proportion.
Being an MD was correlated with being rich in the 80’s. That was before Health Maintenance Organizations became a 1.2 trillion dollar business. Medical insurance companies act as a middleman between the patient and the hospital and Aetna, BCBS United healthcare have stockholders that want return on investment. Same thing with hospitals, it seems like HUGE monolith logo wearing teaching hospital systems are buying up smaller hospitals to secure a larger network. Having the same local hospital renamed with a nationally recognized logo teaching institution doesn’t change the doctors in the brick and mortar.... same doctors as before but different emblems on the lab coats. The secret is the larger the list of doctors owned by a hospital system-the more negotiating power that institution can bring to the table when arbitrating reimbursement rates with HMOs and PPOs! Its not like the big logo teaching hospital re-educates any of the specialist to practice “their way”; the only thing that changes is the admin side of the local hospital to be able to soak every penny out of every reimbursement, centralize billing, accounts payable and electronic systems. (Wanna test it out-try calling a local doctors office that works for a large “big-box” organization...you’ll get connected to a central answering service that will ask “which office are you looking for?” -I miss the days of Concepcion who ran the front office answering “this is doctor Saguil’s office”. I tried calling my old Advocate office in Bartlett and the central answering service didn’t even know what the name of the new doctor was!!! (They only referred to it as the Bartlett office)
The other back alley strategy is for a hospital to anchor itself with the most impactful specialists. (Nothing wrong with advertising like that but if you think about it...that serves as a beacon for life threatening disease reversal. Proton center, DaVinchi surgical technology, best in orthopedics, open heart surgical suites...all cool for last minute life saving ($$$) procedures! BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAINTENANCE PART OF HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZING (HMO)? The largest reimbursements will always go to the doctors that spend the least time in the room with the conscious patient. I wont take that away from the specialists....but specialist are supposed to be doctors of last resort. If the gate keeper specialty (the primary care doctor) to US healthcare gets paid on a scale that is impossible to sustain an independent footprint, most docs would choose to join a logo wearing teaching hospital. Comfortable salary for 1-3 years, medical insurance, 401K, malpractice paid for and centralized billing!!! The doctors are politely visited by admin few times in the first year to see what can be streamlined to match the doctors office style. Then as the 3rd year guaranteed salary comes to an end...admin will visit more often and start revealing “the template” for reimbursement based on RVU that would get the paycheck back up to what it was in year 1. “Oh...but if you just want to continue personal practice style “as is” -sure! You’ll make less money compared to your big logo hospital colleagues!” Reward for adopting “the borg” mindset is a “comfortable salary”. With a stipulation... “if you just see 5 more patients a day you can enter into the higher paying tier!” Just an extra 1.5 hours a day of an already 1 hour running behind practice! Its like doctors go to the big box logo hospitals seeing the advertisement on TV for expensive item then actually only getting a base model and being slowly convinced to get one extra upgrade item at a time, in the end you have a luxury item but totally depressed with the price being paid (family time, exercise time, prayer time). Eventually the indentured doctor becomes his own patient following the “American Dream”. By the time the doctor gains the weight, drinks the alcohol, and starts on her/his 3rd medicine, the realization is there that the old way is the best way; learn the nuances of the other person in the room and construct for said person a scaffolding out of the pit of insurance based medical disease. But by the time the epiphany occurs, doctor is too burned out, too in debt, divorced or too old to return to training.
Here is my warning for old patients: your new doctor does not have ill intent to scuttle your attempts at healthy lifestyle. The proverbial watering hole for doctors has been poisoned but at the same time a salesman is next to the water hole to offer and antidote for every time the doc takes a drink! So just be cautious as the construct brainwashed into the doctor will be fed to the patient:
-Value everything covered under your medical insurance policy.
-Devalue investment in healthy lifestyle as it probably won’t work (any way... I can’t teach you about disease reversing lifestyle since my next patient is waiting).
And final nugget to eat: if you do get healthy and reverse disease and not need lifesaving procedures...what happens to the hospital money?
Psalm 103 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes
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