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Before calling out the names of random diagnostic tests, name the abnormality you have identified and make a list of diseases that cause it.
Then decide if you care to know which one is present.
Then decide which of those are worth testing for.
Then decide the order you’d like to know if they are there or not.
Now you are ready to make a list of diagnostic tests than could be done.
Before you decide which ones should be done.
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One of my career goals has been to create a new field of medicine. I think I’ve finally got it. Come along with me while I make my case. [thread, y’all]
We all know the Infectious Diseases doctor. She is super helpful when the patient is sick with or dying from an infection. She knows a lot about him a beings and their signs and symptoms. Mostly “flu-like” symptoms but you get the idea...
When I talk with my infectious diseases specialists I am always amazed what they know about people AND a whole zoo of other vermin. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, amoebas, the list goes on and on.
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Medical Axioms
@medicalaxioms
Americans have Universal Healthcare:
- drop nearly dead in a Major Metropolitan Area
- get delivered by ambulance to the nearest hospital and stay there; EMTALA
- days to months of ICU/floor care
- get released, get bill, go bankrupt
It may sound like a bad system at first blush. Here are the benefits:
- hospital often still gets paid—they apply for “emergency Medicaid” for these patients.
- instead of some rumpled family medicine doctor handing out lisinopril, we getting to put in stents, do ECMO, etc.
Dialysis, surgery, heroic stuff. Not stupid boring old chronic disease management.
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Medical Axioms
@medicalaxioms
If this is surprising to you, you don’t really understand the purpose of the “US healthcare system.” It’s designed to 1) employ extra people through inefficiency & 2) make some millionaires.

Not to “deliver health.”

How do I know this? Because that’s what it does.
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If you think a private health insurance company is part of some ideal free market economy, you are a true sucker.

It’s protection money. Like you pay to a local gangster to keep from getting beat up.
People who think US government health care spending is not sustainable have clearly never looked at the budget for the Department of Defense.
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