#healthcare m&a

[ennovance]

More than a dozen states are pushing back against private-equity-backed consolidation of medical businesses

https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-private-equity-healthcare-takeovers-cb43f70b?page=1

[bondagebimbo]

LOVE when the pharmacy decides to fucking dick around with my meds so badly that now I’m off my mood stabilizer, my pain meds, and my fucking birth control (in a few days) because they’re insisting I should have extra fucking bottles of each one and I DONT because they don’t let me pick up more than a one month supply of narcotics at a fucking time so do explain where these extra bottles are, hmm ????? and they didn’t have enough caplyta ordered last time to even give me my usual 3 months supply of that so … ???? get your fucking heads out of your asses and give me the fucking meds you owe me ??? like ??? but I’m in a nasty headspace right now so if I call the pharmacy this morning, I’m going to be that cunt ass customer they bitch about all day because this isn’t the first time they’ve done this. in fact, the first time, they straight up committed insurance fraud by marking one of my scripts as filled and picked up WHEN, IN REALITY, THEY FUCKING LOST THE SCRIPT AND HAD NO RECORD OF IT BEING FILLED OR PICKED UP IN THEIR SYSTEM, BUT YET, MARKED IT AS SUCH AND CHARGED MY INSURANCE AN ALMOST 8 GRAND FOR THE FUCKING 3 MONTHS OF MY MOOD STABILIZER THAT I. NEVER. RECEIVED. I’m genuinely about to report this entire pharmacy to the pharmacy board because I’m so fucking done with this place. it needs to be shut the fuck down because you’re telling me, out of an entire pharmacy, y’all share the same IQ point AND dead brain cell, collectively ??? then don’t fucking work in healthcare where people rely on you to know your shit and keep track of their fucking meds because you’re just constantly making shit worse on people since you can’t seem to not fuck around with these meds and not ‘lose’ scripts. fuck out of here.

and I’m pretty much out of weed, which is usually my back up pain management method, without the money to afford a delivery order by their cut off time to order in 3 hours because I just paid my fucking bills and have SOME to go towards it, but not enough for delivery to be free, and I’d still have to walk my ass to one of the ATM’s nearby because they don’t accept my bank as a prepaid method OR any of the cards I have on my person. 🫠

I can literally feel my back spasming and seizing on and off while I’m laying on my fucking side, I’ve had a migraine with a stupid ass aura for almost a week now because chronic migraines fucking suck and i was REALLY hoping this one would be over by now, my muscle inflammations that my pain meds are supposed to limit are already beginning to start their itching deep in my muscles so soon they’ll blossom into a whole fibromyalgia fucking episode and become entirely inflamed, my joints in my hands fucking hurt because of the dreary weather so I really need to get into a rheumatologist at some point soon as well and get that shit figured out, I’m nauseas as fuck from all the pain, and I’m moody, hormonal, and just feel like fucking death physically.

I’m just. I give up.

this shit is exhausting and painful and so mentally fucking taxing to constantly deal with and I just want a fucking break from all this fucking shit. I wish I could just … not exist … for even just a little while with how fucking painful existing actually feels right now 🫠😭

[trendz-m-a]

Chest and triceps workout

[lala-blahblah]

time to go to bed except i am not even a little sleepy and also i'm On Call this week (TM) so at any moment i could get a call that a certain healthcare technology company's patient portal is d-o-w-n and i will have to fix it and so is it even worth sleeping i would rather be awake and prepared

[hyah-lian]

~On the seventh day of Christmas, your insane lurker of a tumblr friend gave to you~ THE BED ALARM

Warriors glanced up to see Legend charting.

“What are you—get back in your bed, you moron,” he hissed as the travel-nurse-turned-patient glowered at him.

“I’m fine,” Legend said through gritted teeth. “And one of my patients could be having an nSTEMI.”

“Your patient is being taken care of by another nurse,” Warriors argued back. “Right now you’re the patient, now get back in bed!”

Muttering curses under his breath, Legend dragged his feet back to his assigned room with Wars on his heels. When Legend sank onto the stretcher, Warriors glared daggers at him.

“You know what? We’re switching beds.” He suddenly said.

Legend grew even more agitated. “After I just sat here for you?! First you stab me with the biggest needle available and now you make me walk all over the freaking unit?”

“You’re not leaving this room,” Warriors fired back. “I’m just bringing an actual inpatient bed. More comfortable for your sensitive sorry ass.”

With that, Wars exited the room to hunt for said item, which usually was not readily available in the ED. Patients typically were on stretchers, which had little in the way of fancy bells and whistles, but Legend needed to be closely monitored and short of assigning a tech to watch him, this was the best option.

Warriors had gone five paces when the call bell in Legend’s room went off. Sighing, he reentered. “What is it, Ledge?”

“I don’t need any of this nonsense.”

“You’re in SVT.”

“Everybody has runs of SVT!”

“Yours is sustained, Ledge, we’ve been over this!”

Their argument was blessedly interrupted when the assigned physician entered the room, allowing Warriors to exit before Legend went off on the resident.

While on his hunt, he caught sight of Hyrule, who approached him. “Hey, Sky told me Legend’s a patient? What happened? Is he okay?”

“SVT. Probably from the 8000mg of caffeine he consumes on a daily basis,” Warriors explained before finally catching sight of his prize. Steering the inpatient bed into the hallway, he added, “He’s stable but it’s a sustained rhythm, he’ll need to be converted out of it.”

Hyrule was about to reply when his radio beeped and dispatch started providing information for a new call. He made a quick request to tell Legend to text him and then hurried out the door.

Warriors reentered Legend’s room and saw that the physician was long gone. Poor sap probably fled the room.

Legend crossed his arms, clearly annoyed, but he didn’t protest when Warriors lined the bed up with the stretcher. Instead he rolled his eyes and slid over to the bed.

“Now what?” He huffed.

“Now you stay here.” Warriors emphasized, pressing a few buttons on the side panel and stepping out.

A few minutes later, a shrill alarm rang through the hallway, and a string of curses exited Legend’s room.

“DID YOU SERIOUSLY BED ALARM ME YOU SON OF A B—”

Warriors smiled as a few other staff members rushed into the room to both silence the alarm and tell Legend to do as Warriors had instructed and stay in bed.

He loved it when a plan came together.

!!!!!!!!

Get bed alarmed nerd omg fjskfjejd

[macclownn]

seeing a lot of house md on my dash lately and v upset that my severe health anxiety doesn't allow me to watch med shows. 🥲🥲🥲

[blackvahana]

Honestly about to put medicinal care in lev's hands instead of doctors on this plane lmfao, he always Says psychiatric stuff isnt his specialty and therefore he always refers me to somewhere else for it but like. no. @ the lord of consciousness and master physician you can mix the two together, i know you

anyway. He brought me this oil for the skin to help me see better, especially because Im bringing those light eyes into Vahana form and... other reasons. and i convinced him to give me something for anxiety because its a dual-sided issue im having where eyes are closed AND im too anxious to see with them. well! it works better than any fuckin physical medicine ive ever had

[yellobb]

American “healthcare” can go fuck itself please and thank you

[kiska-enthusiast]

I have my first doctors appt in like 5 years and I’m so anxious lol

[apricote]

my game feels soooo empty because i don't have any gameplay mods installed but idk if they're updated or not and i've been too lazy to check

[medusozoic]

So in december I fell of my bike drunk and then I was like owie my wrist hurts and after a week when I realised I couldn't really move my wrist I went to my doctor and he was like 'eh prob not broken would hurt more but I'll get u a scan' and then I went to the hospital and they were like ye it's broken go to ic and we'll get it into a cast right away so I did that and then I had a stupid month including Christmas in a stupid cast and then I got out of the cast and I was like woo and then after a month I was like ok it still hurts quite a bit so I went back to my doctor ans he was like naaaaaa that's normal!!!! Dw baby!!! So I went along with my life skip to like 4 months later pain is getting a lot worse and I called the doctor again and had an appointment bc I wanted another scan and then she was like 'o you didn't need to go to me for that!!! You're still registered at the hospital you can just tell them!! Oh maybe I should've told you that on the phone' and then I was like :/ and I called the hospital and they said NOPEY you can't do that you need a referral!! And then I send an email to the hospital and they said 'no the pain is not bc of when you broke it hehe' so I called my doctor again who then called the hospital who then called me and they said oopsie sorry yeah we'll get you an appointment you actually were allowed to do that!!! So then like a week before my appointment I went to play some baseball (first time actually physically using my wrist again) and then it hurt really bad and I was like eh it'll probably go away in a few days (it didn't it got worse) so anyways 6 months after getting the cast off I go to the hospital get another picture and the doctor is like 'oh haha I haven't seen you in a while why have you not had any check ins!!!' and I'm like : l and he's like 'oh I see the problem it's still broken the exact same way!!' so now I'm getting surgery in 2-3 months to actually get it fixed and then I'll need a cast AGAIN for a month and 4 months recovery time.

Long story short I biked drunk and am being punished for a whole goddamn year

[robotblues]

heavy sigh at the medical website i just saw explaining the terms "amab" and "afab" instead of just saying men and women, but clearly using those terms to categorize hormone levels and thereby excluding trans people on hrt (and anyone else with hormone levels atypical for their assigned sex). either be progressive or don't, you can't just find-and-replace the old terms with no thought and pretend you're being inclusive.

[crimeronan]

me, throwing things at the wall in a fit of frustration: I AM GOING TO DRIVE. INTO THE CASCADES. AND THEN. OFF A THOUSAND FOOT CLIFF. INTO A BEAUTIFUL RAVINE. AND DIE IN THE WILDERNESS. IN AGONY. WITH BRANCHES STABBING INTO MY EYES. AND THROAT. AND LUNGS

my partners, climbing on top of me: no. love and support. we snuggle you. we fix problem for u. bitch

me: rrrrrrrrrrr.....

[kyungtae-nim]

Being against trans health care because it's "body mutilation" and "a permanent change" is like telling people -- or kids since they loooove the kids so much -- that they shouldn't receive life-saving surgeries or chemotherapy that is literally recommended by their doctors for the same reason.

Which is just dumb.

[comradecowplant]

damn, s i o u x e r z was one of my earliest tumblr follows-- she's a thin, conventionally attractive, white (or at least white passing) woman, which made her a big hit with the tumblr gays, & there was a period of time when her pics were everywhere, like the Alex Evens of tumblr lesbians-- so its a bummer to have to unfollow her after all this time, but since she's decided to become a cowardly piece of shit & throw her lot in with the r*dfems, she won't be missed.

so psa for any cryptkeepers like myself who followed her back then & haven't been paying attention to her since she came back.

[weirdstrangeandawful]

I do not have a uterus. Please ask me if I could be pregnant. Please ask anyone if they could possibly be pregnant

I might laugh about it, yes, because it’s an amusing question as someone who doesn’t have a uterus. But the only reason to be offended about it is if you hold frankly disgusting views about trans people and intersex people. And honestly about women. Because even if you didn’t care about trans people or intersex people, why would you find it so disgusting that you might possibly have that anatomy?

I hate the stigma around reproductive organs so much. I hate the transphobia. I hate the continued medical discrimination against intersex people.

so let me get this straight. when trans men are put in life threatening situations because the possibility of pregnancy is not considered, and steps are taken to address this– that's pandering to people's dumb woke feewings. but when a cis man is so offended an extremely simple question that he refuses necessary care out of pure transphobia, that's somehow trans men's fault?

you can't BOTH complain that doctors aren't supposed to be inoffensive, AND argue that conservatives being offended is proof a rule is bad.

also, how fucking exactly is asking men "is it possible that you could be pregnant" risking anyone's life? because pregnancy and related issues can be actually genuinely fatal. a cis man losing his shit at ONE. QUESTION. and refusing all treatment is digging his own grave out of pure bigotry and fragile cismasculinity. but of course it's okay to let trans men & their children die if it means that cis people are never for one second possibly mistaken as one of those transgenders right