The @AARP   bulletin today asks, “Where have all the doctors gone?” as more patients find themselves seeing PAs and NPs instead of medical doctors. I believe it’s no accident—policies are pushing out physicians to cut costs, leaving patients with fewer advocates and more confusion. “…As a physician, I get this question from friends and family all the time. And for most of my professional
life, I was able to refer them to a medical col-league; a simple phone call was all it took to get someone an appointment within a reasonable amount of time.
But no longer…”

I just got *another* phone call about a fellow Emergency Physician who briefly worked for a telemedicine company that screwed her over and committed fraud on her identity. 🧵👇🏽 👉🏽Only after she started working, they began pressuring her to prescribe more controlled substances (opiates/narcotics) and durable medical equipment, and, told her her compensation would be linked to how much she prescribed…

Physicians of Massachusets: IMO if you continue to practice medicine in this state if this bill is enacted you are practicing unethical medicine. How can an independent physician ethically be held responsible like this? #H3656 #OpiateCrisis
malegislature.gov/Bills/191/HD34…
Outrageous! 1/ 2014 JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) study of 136,000 patients treated for opioid overdoses in emergency rooms found that just 13 percent of them were chronic pain patients.