#medicine for profit

[harvestheart]

medical care for profit

[hotcupoteckla]

United Healthcare CEO gets whacked, and the shills are talking about "Violence didn't solve anything! They're just going to hire another CEO."

BITCH, SHAREHOLDERS VOTE FOR THOSE - the C level board finds a bunch of candidates to promote and then

Sends a little notice to your fidelity account saying some bs like: "EMERGENCY VOTE! PICK OUR NEW CEO BY TUESDAY!!"

And then you go onto Fidelity or Vanguard or wherever and your stocks you own get counted as one vote for each share.

Here's the kicker. UHC might be having a firesale.

They're getting a lot of bad publicity right now.

Nobody liked the CEO nor the Ai they're being forced by the board to invest in.

So they're selling their shares.

So you can buy one.

For cheap.

And follow up on the funniest shit alive and break their shit.

You can buy .01 shares for the price of a coffee!

Gamestop those bitches!

[spitblaze]

I think. some people are so eager to fit everything that pisses them off into their political framework that they end up with very strange takes

[bassproshopspyramid]

image ID: the destiel breaking news meme, but after cas says "i love you", dean replies:

cas, danaher corporation and it’s subsidiary company cepheid are still charging tuberculosis (TB) patients in low- and middle-income countries $10–$20 to access quick and accurate testing despite the fact that cepheid’s genexpert machine tests were developed with at least $252 million in taxpayer money and doctors without borders found out that the tests only cost $3–$4.50 to produce. TB is a major cause of death and disability, not to mention that the inaccessibility of these tests leads to the spread of drug resistant TB around the globe.

it’s #timefor5. find out how you can help at tbfighters.org

[victusinveritas]

UnitedHealth CEO meets same fate as many of his clients

The scofflaw company has been sued multiple times in just the past couple years.

[from the substack of Carl Beijer ]

Dec 04, 2024

Today New York City saw its twelfth shooting in 2024. You probably didn’t know this was shooting number twelve because these incidents are rarely national news. But this time around the victim was extremely rich, which means we’re all going to be hearing about this for a good news cycle or two.

-- I love that the shooter escaped on an e-bike. Hope they remain at large.

[witchytakes]

The real "trans lobby"

Honestly I've seen plenty of TERFs, GC's and far right people saying that there's a whole "Trans lobby" of doctors who profit out of "rush transitioning" (specially when trans people are younger)

And they couldn't be more stupid, there's more profit doctors can made by gatekeeping HRT and that "living as your gender" shit to allow transition just to start, also for the whole disphoria shit tho

Just to get clear here's a hypotetical example of a late transition trans woman into the "correct way to transition" by a GC standard (minus the erradicating thing) would need to be over 18 (sometimes even 25), be a trans het woman (AGP's aren't acceptable only the HSTS's), live as a woman for 2 years (buying the whole closet, shave everyday), pay a whole package of laser shaving or electrolisys and be at the standard of the doctor so after this they are allowed to transition, lowballing a cost average of 10k USD

Then there's the HRT and the mind of the said trans woman filled with disphoria, which she's a late transitioner and would want to do a lot of surgeries to fit, lowballing here is about 100k USD

many sectors would profit out of the late transitioner trans woman which didn't want to suffer transphobia

Now into the so scary trans lobby logic, the same trans woman, she's just goes into HRT before she even make 18 just regular exams and stuff, she didn't even needed to pass the gatekeep stuff and the disphoria brainworms woudn't even consume her, the whole cost would be highballing 5k USD for a period of 10 years

yeah transitioning early is actually less profitable than transitioning late hence why there's no "trans lobby" over younger trans people, they just want to not be disphoric

the actual medical scandal would be when people find out that early transitioners can have a happier life (there's nothing wrong about late transitioning tho) and there's a profit out making trans people lifes miserable just to allow them do their own treatment

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks]

Y'know how Edward Cullen has a metric fuck-ton of high-school degrees?

Well, I'm pretty sure that it would be perfectly in character if Adrian Tepes had a similarly sized collection of college degrees.

Thanks to Dracula, our boy is sitting on more generational wealth than he probably knows what to do with, and since his appearance is that of an eternally twenty-something, he'd fit right in with the sleep-deprived academic masses. He likes accruing knowledge, and I can think of no better way than re-attending college every other decade or so for him to stay up to date on current worldly affairs and discoveries.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[nateconnolly]

In 2023, the top three largest health insurance companies all earned higher net income than they had in 2022. CVS Health’s net profits rose by 4 billion dollars, a 93% increase. That same year, the average premium increased by 7%.

These numbers are not only information about money — they tell a story of blood, bone, and rot.

They also tell a story of vacations, boats, and vintage wine. 

[criminally-unserious-looplu]

If there are any other UK artists here then

Basically sleazy companies are trying to change UK copy right laws to allow scraping of A.I. with permission and to be able to against artists' copy writes

You find your MP and representives by googling

PLEASE TRY

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom There can never be quality health care in any system that lets economic forces dictate care, be it for-profit care that pushes for what's profitable or underfunded care that allows insufficient care. You will all keep suffering until the money comes out of care entirely. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 12:47 PM · Oct 1, 2023

[i-spilled-my-soup]

the confusion of the staff of asklepios and the caduceus of hermes. asklepios who reigns over medicine and healing. hermes who reigns over trickery and commerce. asklepios who resurrected the dead. hermes who guides the dead to the underworld

[funhomo]

thinking apropos of nothing about the time a couple years ago that my mother had to get all new doctors because united healthcare “failed to negotiate” with the system the doctors she’d been seeing for years were in

my mom is a medical doctor. she is in private practice which means since The Divorce she basically gets to scroll through all the same shitty exchange options as every other self employed schmuck.

my mother sure did get into a spiral about “I AM A PHYSICIAN AND I CANT EVEN GET DECENT HEALTHCARE MYSELF”

also? it didn’t used to be like this. part of why the state of health care makes my mom so angry is that it’s gotten worse over the decades.

Prior authorization? What they call “managed care”? the whole insurers-practicing-medicine-without-a-license thing? Wasn’t a thing til the 80s or so. Back In The DayTM if a doctor prescribed something your insurance paid for it. Or so I’m told.

[bizlybebo]

wanting to go into medicine under the us healthcare system really feels like hell sometimes

[bassproshopspyramid]

‼️⚠️ 🎉 GOOD NEWS (nov. 15 / 2023)

[image ID: the destiel confession meme. cas says "I love you.

dean replies: "the endTB clinical trial found 3 new all-oral drug regiments with similar efficacy and safety to current conventional treatments while reducing the treatment time by up to two-thirds. they will allow for more individualized treatment centred on patients. and for the first time in the care of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, these treatments can be used in nearly all cases of MDR-TB, including in children, adolescents, adults, and pregnant people."

end ID.]

multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a form of tuberculosis that is particularly difficult to treat due to resistance to the 2 most powerful firstline antibiotics. many people are still treated with conventional treatments that are long (up to 24 months), ineffective, and often cause terrible side effects.

every year, there are about 500,000 new cases of MDR-TB worldwide - but only a tiny fraction are successfully treated. the endTB trial, led by MSF (médecins sans frontières/doctors without borders), PIH (partners in health) and IRD (interactive research and development), funded by Unitaid, and featuring 754 participants in 7 countries is a randomized, controlled trial designed to provide high-quality evidence on new, all-oral, shortened drug regimens.

one of the new regimens was found to be even more effective than current conventional treatments. the new trial also added an additional 4th regimen as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate some TB drugs.

there are now — for the first time ever! — 5 all-oral regimens that are effective against MDR-TB in 9 months or less and which are as good or better than a contemporary standard-of-care control. if recommended by WHO, they can be used in nearly all cases of MDR-TB, including children, adolescents, adults, and pregnant people, a first in MDR-TB care. two of the non-inferior regimens cost under $400, and a third costs under $600, for the full course of treatment.

EDIT: press release from endTB for a source

[thesaltyoncologist]

What I love about my job: my patients and partners

What do I hate about my job: the never-ending paperwork required to justify to an insurance company:

1) they should actually pay for their clients healthcare needs , and

2) that I deserve to be paid for the services I provide.

Let’s get this straight. Physician wages and reimbursement are a gigantic drop in the bucket of the cost of medical care in the US. The insurance companies and their pocket padding practices are the problem.

[drinkyourfuckingmilk]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you manage your chronic illness? I'm still in the process of diagnosis, but I'm starting to get pretty demoralized with my health slipping

I was referred to a endocrinologist for my PCOS and he's been amazing in terms of helping me reduce the horrific roller-coaster hormone imbalances and insulin-resistance, the only issue I'm still struggling with is the bad fatigue and hairloss (I'm lucky I've got so much of it though, it just sucks being covered in hair after a light breeze hits my head). I just try and stick to what I've learned makes my symptoms decrease or disappear like regular exercise, eating healthy, making sure my vitamins are supplemented if I'm more prone to certain deficiencies, getting regular blood tests to make sure my hormones aren't in full revolt, trying different medications that help reduce the hormones that are throwing me out of whack etc

It can be expensive to see a specialist so I sort of ration out my appointments, but if its affordable for you its worth the relief to even just have a plan in place. And sometimes you'll have harder times with the symptoms and feel like you're back at square one but being proactive with trying new health strategies with your specialist or GP will help you mix and match what works for you. when you go through a period where nothing feels like it's working, then it's always helpful to talk to someone about it.

And be careful what sources of info or support you look for online - there's so many communities for specific chronic illnesses that are full of misinformation (instagram and tiktok especially) and are just influencers disguised as experts looking to make money off you with tips that are NOT backed by science.