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Dec 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A follow on from @EBMgoneWILD discussion about the mess that is the 🇺🇸 medical system
Malpractice insurance is designed to trap physicians in jobs for life.
On a thread with fellow #obstetricians and discussing tail insurance. 1/
For those not familiar with the hot damn mess of American med mal, obstetricians have one of the highest malpractice premiums. It varies from state to state and increases every year.
About 18 years ago as a new grad, mine was a real cheap $55,000/year. 😒 2/
Dec 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There are 328,200,000 people in the USA.
Black Americans make up about 13% of the population
There are currently about 877K practicing physicians in the USA....
4% of the 877K are Black
ONLY 2% of physicians in the USA are BLACK FEMALES.
We are out there, serving our communities, taking care of the sick, the disinfrachised. Listening. Doing. Acting.
We are tired. We are only 13% of the population but we are dying faster and worse from almost every disease/disorder...
Dec 22, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
We lost another doctor today
To COVID
But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her...
She called the patient advocate...
She called the chief medical officer...
She was in pain and ignored
Fellow docs got her into another hospital...
It was too late..
She passed away today
The system failed her.
It failed us...
Anyone want to guess the race of this doctor?
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