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John Irvine
@scripthacker_
Los Angeles. I think about tech and the future of “content.” Publishing, Music + TV/Film.) Also write edgy shit about exotic places like New Jersey. And India.
Sep 30, 2021 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: The US healthcare system takes a lot of shit, much of it deserved. But consider this:

700,000 people have died of #COVID19 in the US

What would that number be without the doctors, nurses & others battling the virus in ICUs + EDs?

#MedTwitter Think about it for a minute. Leave the politics out of it this one time. Without the heroic efforts of the front line, it's clear that the toll would have been horrific.

A million?

Two million?

Three million?

cc: @V2019N, @CTZebra
Jun 18, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
How to Discourage a Doctor

The official unofficial playbook:

“Make health care incomprehensible to physicians. It is no easy task to baffle the most intelligent people in the organization, but it can be done.” “For example, make physicians increasingly dependent on complex systems outside their domain of expertise, such as information technology and coding and billing software.”