Comments on: Payment woes drives this internist to retirement http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to.html#comment-84028 Anonymous Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to-retirement.html#comment-84028 anon 3:18<br/><br/>you are correct to be negative here. If you must do primary, try to develop a business model that is based on cash, not insurance, and keep your costs down!! anon 3:18

you are correct to be negative here. If you must do primary, try to develop a business model that is based on cash, not insurance, and keep your costs down!!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to.html#comment-84010 Anonymous Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to-retirement.html#comment-84010 Gosh-damn, it's such a miserable state of affairs. As undergraduate freshman who is considering pursuing medicine, I have to consider if want to enter into this kind of hell. I'm ignorant and naive, but I champion primary care nevertheless. However, there is so little damn incentive to become a primary care practitioner. That sucks. All my ideals of medicine have evaporated ever since I caught wind of the many issues pressing medicine these days.<br/><br/>I've been jaded! Gosh-damn, it’s such a miserable state of affairs. As undergraduate freshman who is considering pursuing medicine, I have to consider if want to enter into this kind of hell. I’m ignorant and naive, but I champion primary care nevertheless. However, there is so little damn incentive to become a primary care practitioner. That sucks. All my ideals of medicine have evaporated ever since I caught wind of the many issues pressing medicine these days.

I’ve been jaded!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to.html#comment-83989 Anonymous Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/payment-woes-drives-this-internist-to-retirement.html#comment-83989 There is no foreseeable future of third party payers paying for primary care docs to practice the way it should be done. The only way to support that financially is direct patient payment. While that means that quality ethical medicine is only available to the few, better that than for it to perish from the face of the earth altogether. Those who drop out of the system and practice medicine as it should be practiced do all the rest a service by setting an example and preserving the light as medicine enters a bureaucratic dark age. There is no foreseeable future of third party payers paying for primary care docs to practice the way it should be done. The only way to support that financially is direct patient payment. While that means that quality ethical medicine is only available to the few, better that than for it to perish from the face of the earth altogether. Those who drop out of the system and practice medicine as it should be practiced do all the rest a service by setting an example and preserving the light as medicine enters a bureaucratic dark age.

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