The Power of Industry in Medicine is tremendous, and the COST of speaking Truth to Power is real.
This is one example of how industry attempts to influence the narrative within medicine. @WesternTrauma
@prytimemedical - is the largest suppliers of REBOA catheter in the U.S.
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Dave Spencer, @prytimemedical CEO says in a letter put out on March 3rd that one of the “fundamental Core Values is transparency and open communication” at Prytime Medical.
Yet he privately sends a scathing letter emailed to @WesternTrauma Officers and Board of Directors: 👇
This is based on a study that was done where the following abstract was submitted and accepted to @WesternTrauma:
"The Undisclosed Disclosures: The Dollar-Outcome Relationship in Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma"
No one wakes up expecting to be injured or have a surgical emergency, but I suspect most Americans expect to be taken care of.
Right now across America, healthcare workers are unable to treat patients with treatable disease. This is an absolute tragedy and preventable.
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As a surgeon and critical care doctor, I have seen firsthand the inability for us to provide the support that we have for so many years to facilities that simply don’t have the resources to care for certain conditions.
Why?
It's not a lack of interest amoung HCWs, it’s simply a lack of beds.
The unwillingness for Americans to #GetVaccinated is of course putting their lives at risk, and now it is also preventing Americans with treatable diseases NOT to be treated. 🤯
As a surgeon who does both elective and emergency surgery, what’s happening again and now in hospitals across America is an atrocity.
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Last year those of us who perform elective surgery pushed for conservation of resources. Whether that’s the appropriate utilization of nurses and surgeons or beds and ventilators. This allocation was critical in order to SAVE lives.
This of course came at a significant cost to healthcare systems that utilize the revenue from surgeries to ensure the ability of operationalizing other Departments in the hospital.
Surgery is mission critical for sustainability & delivery of care to communities across America.
And perhaps even more striking is that 30% don’t plan on being vaccinated or are yet to decide!
Health Inequity continues to be prevalent with only 39% of Black HCWs compared to 57% of White HCWs having received 1st dose. @DanielEDawes@EbonyJHilton_MD