The only appropriate role for a health insurance company is to pay bills, not to "manage" care.
The only appropriate decision-makers in health care are patients and their doctors.
Gavin Preston, M.D.
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Gavin Preston, M.D.
@GavinPrestonMD
Author of the coming book: "The Managed Care Blues: A Doctor's Journey, a Broken System, Real Solutions." Retired physician. Patient and doctor advocate.
USA
Joined February 2011
- I have treated over 40,000 patients since the 1980s, and I have seen medicine change from a compassion-based profession into a corporate greed-driven business.
- I have treated 40 thousand patients since the 1980s, and I have seen medicine change from a compassion-based profession into a corporate greed-driven business.
- The only reasonable role of a health insurance company is to pay bills, not to "manage" care. The only reasonable decision-makers in health care are patients and their doctors.
- Medicine is the profession where when the canary in the coal mine dies, all the leaders look around and ask: "Why can't we get more resilient canaries?"
- I've hired more lawyers in my life than I could ever have imagined. That said, I learned one very important thing. The attorney-client privilege is absolute and sacrosanct. Lawyers take it VERY seriously. Nobody--absolutely nobody--messes with it. How did we medics go so wrong?
- I strongly advise friends around the world not to do what the US has done, putting for-profit corporations in charge of health care. It has been an unmitigated failure.
- The only appropriate role for a health insurance company is to pay bills, not to "manage" care. The only appropriate decision-makers in health care are patients and their doctors.
- I had a professor when I was a resident doctor tell me "You never tell a patient you don't know." I STRONGLY disagree. When we admit we don't know, we are showing humility and honesty. Then we can tell the patient we'll do research on the matter, get a second opinion, etc. #Meded
- Medicine is the only profession where when the canary in the coalmine dies, leaders say "Can't we just get more resilient canaries?" #Meded #medtwitter
- I strongly advise friends around the world not to do what the US has done, putting private, for-profit insurance companies in charge of health care. It has been a titanic disaster.
- Before you Tweet, T-H-I-N-K: 1. Is it true? 2. Is it helpful? 3. Is it inspiring? 4. Is it necessary? 5. Is it kind?
- Doctors are sick and tired of having our practice of medicine dictated to us by a bunch of bean counters!
- Doctors are sick and tired of having our practice of medicine dictated to us by a bunch of bean counters.