[optimal] Re: The other side of the gripe from Denice Barsness
- From: sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:30:20 -0400
Wait, before you blame inattentive, absentee doctors on socialized medicine...
What Anton is talking about happens at major hospitals across the US
as well. By "donating" a half-day a week to the hospital, the doc gets
"professor" or "attending" or "xyz" on their business card, and are
allowed to print the name of the big hospital on their business card
as well.
It has nothing to do with socialized medicine, and everything to do
with ego/lack of respect for supporting roles in a medical practice.
Now, every day i see how a federal program to govern healthcare could
help (tremendously) the day-to-day flow of a clinic like the one i
work in. Countless staff hours are spent getting pre-certs for
insurances, fighting with different companies for payment for the same
procedures, etc. This federal governance (to ensure equal treatment)
would allow our patient from Philadelphia to be ensured the same care
as our patient coming from 3 minutes away in New Jersey, and the same
as our patient coming from 20 minutes away in Delaware. Huh. imagine
that, a health care system that would consider patient care, rather
than geographical location... You might call it Obamacare, i call it
sensible. Imagine if pharmaceutical companies were governed state to
state. We'd all roll over to Jersey to pick up our cheap liquor,
gasoline and prescription-less vicodin, because Pennsylvania and its
blue laws makes us pay more for booze and get a doctor's approval to
use narcotics... This is what happens with health insurance, except
Pennsylvanians dont have the option of purchasing New Jersey's
insurance.
The sky isnt falling, but healthcare (insurance) is broken, and we
should try to fix it.
-sandor
Sandor Ferenczy, CRA, OCTc
Ophthalmic Photographer
Ocular Oncology Service
Wills Eye Institute
840 Walnut Street, 14th Floor
Philadelphia, Pa 19107
www.fighteyecancer.com
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
<cpmceyelab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, you’ve just highlighted the problem with socialized medicine. Without
> responsibility and accountability, there is no sense of doing the right
> thing. The system I fear the most with Obamacare. While in principle,
> socialized medicine sounds great. In practice, not so much. Ask those in
> Canada, the UK, Australia, Russia. How’s that working for you?
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> If you don’t have a vested interest in the financial outcome, then the less
> work the better.
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> My two cents.
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> Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB, CDOS, FOPS
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> Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
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> CPMC Department of Ophthalmology
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> 2100 Webster Street Suite 212
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> San Francisco CA 94115
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> (415) 600-3937 FAX (415) 600-6563
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> From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Anton Drew
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 2:23 PM
> To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optimal] Re: The other side of the gripe from Denice Barsness
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> THAT, Denice is the crux of the problem here, I work in a government
> hospital
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> where THEY DON'T value your expertise and skills.
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> ALL of our docs INCLUDING the Director are private Consultants who just
> come
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> in once a week or fortnight for a 3 hour session and then they're gone.
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> They treat the staff as though they were their own private practice staff.
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> HOW can a unit be run by a Director who is only there for one 3 hour
> session
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> every 2 weeks AND during the busiest Retinal Clinic when their is no time
> to
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> grab him to discuss udgrading equipment/software, or talk about staffing
> issues,
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> workload etc..
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> It is like speaking to a brickwall. They just don't get it !!!
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> Just don't want to "play their game anymore".
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> Anton
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> On 28/03/2012, at 2:34 AM, CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center wrote:
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> Having the good fortune of working in a great institution that actually
> values our work, we in turn can reflect those feelings of good will onto our
> patients. They are truly the lucky ones to be the benefit of all of this
> great technology.
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> My two cents.
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> D.
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