Comments on: Fixing health care – Time http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jb http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520352 jb Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:54:30 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520352 Agree totally, but we will need to find a better term than "Concierge Medicine." It sounds too French (yes I know, because it is French). Maybe "Patient Centered Medicine." Or "Medicine with no 3rd parties sticking their noses into your Healthcare and driving up the price with no benefit to you." That's catchy, don't you agree? The best definition of <strike>Liberal</strike> Pregressive: Someone so generous and thoughtful that he would give you the shirt off my back. Agree totally, but we will need to find a better term than “Concierge Medicine.” It sounds too French (yes I know, because it is French). Maybe “Patient Centered Medicine.” Or “Medicine with no 3rd parties sticking their noses into your Healthcare and driving up the price with no benefit to you.” That’s catchy, don’t you agree?

The best definition of Liberal Pregressive: Someone so generous and thoughtful that he would give you the shirt off my back.

]]> By: WhiteCoat http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520351 WhiteCoat Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:49 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520351 JB - Funny you mention that. I've heard others describe our <i>current</i> system as "the best healthcare someone else can pay for." Concierge medicine has the potential to change this paradigm. Cash up front or no appointment. Can't really get around that one. JB –
Funny you mention that. I’ve heard others describe our current system as “the best healthcare someone else can pay for.”
Concierge medicine has the potential to change this paradigm. Cash up front or no appointment. Can’t really get around that one.

]]> By: jb http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520350 jb Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:32:23 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520350 Correction: Patients want our time and are willing <strike>to pay for</strike> <i>to have someone else pay for</i> that time. Correction:
Patients want our time and are willing to pay for to have someone else pay for that time.

]]> By: Stuart http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520348 Stuart Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:41:08 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520348 Solution? Concierge medicine (I don't do it, but between p4p, medicare audit threats and more, it may not be far awy) Solution?

Concierge medicine

(I don’t do it, but between p4p, medicare audit threats and more, it may not be far awy)

]]> By: Bella http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520344 Bella Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:19:40 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520344 Too many patients, not enough time too many forms, not enough reimbursement -- I get it! But would it hurt that much to take a quick look at my chart before you come into the room? I can remember the important things to "remind" my doctor of. But what if I was older, or sicker, or not as savvy? Too many patients, not enough time too many forms, not enough reimbursement — I get it! But would it hurt that much to take a quick look at my chart before you come into the room? I can remember the important things to “remind” my doctor of. But what if I was older, or sicker, or not as savvy?

]]> By: Jared http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520343 Jared Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:13:50 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520343 I don't think DB would support anyone having a blind trust in any doctor. I certainly don't believe you should. People should be allowed to vote for doctors with both their feet and their money in a much freer manner than they are currently in the U.S. I hope that DB will help my generation of physicians-in-training to develop ethical and practical methods of being a physician as both a vocation and an avocation--all while providing high quality care to patients. I don’t think DB would support anyone having a blind trust in any doctor. I certainly don’t believe you should. People should be allowed to vote for doctors with both their feet and their money in a much freer manner than they are currently in the U.S.

I hope that DB will help my generation of physicians-in-training to develop ethical and practical methods of being a physician as both a vocation and an avocation–all while providing high quality care to patients.

]]> By: JPB http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520342 JPB Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:06:47 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520342 And so why should we trust any doctor?..... And so why should we trust any doctor?…..

]]> By: Dan Walter http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520341 Dan Walter Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:49:12 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520341 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/ http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/

]]> By: Dan Walter http://www.medrants.com/archives/3500/comment-page-1#comment-520340 Dan Walter Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:48:40 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3500#comment-520340 Hey DB: Check this out:<a href="http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/" title="Adventures in Cardiology" rel="nofollow"></a> Hey DB: Check this out:

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