Founder, Moral Healthcare; former Hospice & ICU Doc; PA Dir., @Drsforamerica; Health Care Reform Debate Blog; Adj. TJU GSPH Health Policy, All opinions my own!
Your caregivers hope is to get waivers to eliminate FTF or make telemedicine visits an alternative ASAP:
1)Will save hospice patient lives (and minimize spread to families visiting them from across the country)
2)Will save physician/nurse practitioner lives
3)Will allow physicians/nurse practitioners to focus more time on medical needs (Most hospice docs/NPs are #PCP docs/NPs)
Mar 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Watching this excellent interview with @AnandWrites about wealth inequality, and at about 3:30 he hits an excellent point about work and its value to society 1/ :
“Entrepreneurs are just one type of person in society pursuing one type of good, which is money and growth. You know, it turns out that what teachers do is not motivated by that kind of calculation and actually turns out to be really, really important to a civilized society… 2/