Doctor Money Matters
@drmoneymatters
⚕️💲🎙️ radiologist host of Doctor Money Matters podcast and Facebook group for physicians interested in finances.
More physicians are making the move. Combination of ridiculous regulation by states and federal government, unrelenting financial and administrative burdens from insurance companies and over reaching employment contracts, and work pressures from health systems. Go for it! Escape.
My mom is under the care of an exceptional cardiologist. We received this note last week. More talented physicians will escape the current restrictive environment to pursue a direct-to-patient model. Some policymakers will try to ban physicians from doing so, similar to the ACA’s…
Gotta agree with Portnoy here. Colbert and the entire broadcast late night genre is over. Most of their views now come from YouTube I bet. Probably no one under 50 watches it in real time unless it’s on background TV. Was a big deal 15 years ago and earlier. No longer.
Reaction to Stephen Colbert getting fired by CBS. It takes a special type of arrogance to be making 16 million, losing 40 million and publicly bash the people paying your bills.
The Goopification of America.
Wellness influencers be like: “Avoid anything processed… except my $80 processed green powder in a plastic tub.” 🤦🏽♀️🙄
Pomp and dump?
There is a chance Opendoor may be the next meme stock. I spoke with @ericjackson about the stock, his thesis, and why he thinks it is going to $82 per share. $OPEN
I agree that WNBA players should be paid more. But you know what? Physician salaries are only 8% of total healthcare costs and we have idiot healthcare economists, saying we make too much money and we should get cut every year. They know what they can do with themselves .
I know this will be a firestorm topic WNBA players currently receive just 9.3% of the leagues revenue(this includes ticket sales, merch, TV deals) for reference their male counterparts in the NBA is 50.0%. This resulted in their salary cap being set at just 1.507 million for…
When does the @coldplay Kiss Cam couple get their own podcast and when do they release their own memecoin @HawkTuah style? That’s when we know their fame has jumped the shark
Is @DOGE looking into this?
This seems small & petty, a line item in a bottomless black hole of graft & grift, but how do you spend $180K on a "block" of rooms in off-offseason Tampa for <100 people? (I went to Tampa in DECEMBER & got a room for $70!) A 🧵on the disaster capitalism of Alligator Alcatraz
Imagine a health system led by a CEO, who is not a physician, who posted a story on the corporate intranet about a kid he met, who said he wanted to grow up to be a hospital administrator. I don’t have to imagine and it told me everything I needed to know about their priorities.
Meanwhile, executive/admin salary goes up bc more revenue was captured by the system
This is the Bullshit💩 your physician deals with that makes no impact on patient care but drives up costs because it wastes our time and therefore yours as the patient.
I totally agree. Many years ago (in the 1990's), when I was Chief of Surgery, I was publicly excoriated by JCAHO reviewers who opened an ortho chart and failed us because the orthopedist did not have a comprehensive family and social history. Never mind that that the team…
George Washington was not American either. Elon wasn’t born here either. Neither was Melania, but we all know what the majority of the commenters issues are with who they single out. @elonmusk what do you think?
Why were these two University Hospitals pediatricians fired? was it a physician unionization attempt or was it misuse of communications platform? I think we all know how administration will frame it, but we know the real reason. It’s time to exit news5cleveland.com/news/local-new…
If they ever payoff their debts that will be newsworthy. This is like taking a 3 yr loan and stretching it to 8 so they can manage the monthly payments. probably will pay more in total interest and I assume that means less for the radiologist working there radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthc…
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat. -Calvin…
How many are admin vs professors? Are we cutting fat or muscle? The American University system has been regarded as the world’s best much like the best of the American healthcare system. But there is a lot of bloat. Hope for the best Prepare for the worst.
This week in academia, a not so short🧵... 1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-uni…