Comments on: New Orleans: "Don’t bring your parents back if they are sick" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html#comment-78199 Anonymous Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents-back-if-they-are-sick.html#comment-78199 Laura lists some of the real problems. I don't think number of physicians is the actual problem. Louisiana lost 5% of it's population and 4% of it's doctors, actually the physician loss is slightly less than the population loss. The poor there have been conditioned for generations to expect free care at Big Charity and the private medical providers have always had it there as a backup to relieve the uncompensated care load. It is an area with an extraordinarily large percentage of poor in much worse than average health. The delicate balance of relationships within the various medical systems that allowed it all to work has been disrupted. If it were just a shortage of docs, the ones there would be doing well, but the scuttlebutt is that they can't collect.<br/><br/>The casinos are doing well though and mostly off local residents. Laura lists some of the real problems. I don’t think number of physicians is the actual problem. Louisiana lost 5% of it’s population and 4% of it’s doctors, actually the physician loss is slightly less than the population loss. The poor there have been conditioned for generations to expect free care at Big Charity and the private medical providers have always had it there as a backup to relieve the uncompensated care load. It is an area with an extraordinarily large percentage of poor in much worse than average health. The delicate balance of relationships within the various medical systems that allowed it all to work has been disrupted. If it were just a shortage of docs, the ones there would be doing well, but the scuttlebutt is that they can’t collect.

The casinos are doing well though and mostly off local residents.

]]> By: Laurahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html#comment-78176 Laura Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents-back-if-they-are-sick.html#comment-78176 It's not just Foti, although obviously that's a problem. It's the fact that the levees are patched in places, not fixed. Another storm almost certainly means another levee break and catastrophic flooding. And since Katrina, we have an estimated 30k+ illegal aliens in New Orleans, and the language barrier - not to mention trying to receive payment for services from the uninsured - makes delivering care expensive and problematic. It’s not just Foti, although obviously that’s a problem. It’s the fact that the levees are patched in places, not fixed. Another storm almost certainly means another levee break and catastrophic flooding. And since Katrina, we have an estimated 30k+ illegal aliens in New Orleans, and the language barrier – not to mention trying to receive payment for services from the uninsured – makes delivering care expensive and problematic.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html#comment-78163 Anonymous Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents-back-if-they-are-sick.html#comment-78163 I guess that is more accurate, yes. Charles Foti. The place is a corrupt sewer, and I would not consider working there. I guess that is more accurate, yes. Charles Foti. The place is a corrupt sewer, and I would not consider working there.

]]> By: Happymanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html#comment-78146 Happyman Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents-back-if-they-are-sick.html#comment-78146 amen to that.<br/><br/>they should invite Foti to speak at the Orleans Parish Med Society meeting. amen to that.

they should invite Foti to speak at the Orleans Parish Med Society meeting.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents.html#comment-78121 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/new-orleans-dont-bring-your-parents-back-if-they-are-sick.html#comment-78121 Two words: Anna Pou<br/><br/>Would you want to practice in a system as corrupt as that? Two words: Anna Pou

Would you want to practice in a system as corrupt as that?

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