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These medical students have been doing the work of MDs with decades of war operating experience. It is shameful they are likely being tortured right now when they should be praised and celebrated for stepping up, unpaid, and doing life-saving work for half a year.
🚨The Israeli army kidnaps final-year medical students: Khaleel Skaik and Abdelrheem Selmya from Shifa hospital in #Gaza.
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Hospitals owned by private equity firms riskier for patients, study says kktv.com/2023/12/27/hospital…
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Resident starting pay should be $100k/year
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Remember your ABCs
Always
Be
Cyberbullying (insurance companies)
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Earlier this month an Illinois physician learned her ER as getting a new boss. He called himself "Doctor George." And he was *deeply* unhappy with her failure to do Medicare fraud.
A thread on the chaotic collapse of a(nother) private equity ER operator prospect.org/health/2023-07-…
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When I make videos about the US healthcare system, I try to do it in a way that is accessible to everybody. If you do advocacy work, please feel free to use these videos in presentations or send them to your Congress person. Keep advocating. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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How much do hospitals receive from the government to train residents?
It depends. There are multiple funding streams and the formulae are complicated.
But here, a consulting firm did the math...
…and estimated that, in 2019, the average Medicare subsidy was $145,435/resident.
ALT Graphic demonstrating calculating the average DGME and IME payment per resident by federal fiscal year, which rose from $110,681 in 2008 to $145,435 in 2019.
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BREAKING: Physicians in New York City are on strike for the first time in 33 years.
150 trainee doctors walked out on strike today at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
They're pushing back against the low pay residents get for extremely long hours and grueling work.
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A reminder before tonight’s SOTU:
Biden and the Democrats only actually support a copay cap for those diabetics with insurance, leaving the uninsured to pay or die.
Biden will again use suffering diabetics for political points while his party does nothing to help us.
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"From my perspective as a patient and an advocate, any solution that excludes the uninsured is not useful at all. The uninsured have to pay the most for insulin.”
Are you listening, @POTUS?
“Every American” includes the uninsured. Democrats’ insulin copay cap does not.
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My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, @Cigna, is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old
