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5% of patients account for 48.8% of total US healthcare spending, 1% account for 20.7%

https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st540/stat540.shtml The most commonly treated condition among the top 5 percent of spenders in 2019 was hypertension (46.2 percent), followed by osteoarthritis/other non-traumatic joint disorders (44.5...

Beware patients secretly recording you

Over and over throughout the years Ive had patients (or usually family members) talking to me during encounters while awkwardly holding their phones; obviously trying...

I have been on call for 86 straight hours across two hospitals so the rest of my department could have a three-day holiday. Now, I feel lucky to have made it through in one piece [vent].

I work at an academic hospital. Mid-way through last academic year, my partner and I submitted our resignation. We were asked to stay part-way through...

Insurance companies now stating Peer-to-Peer's are now "for educational purposes only" and if you want to an appeal a decision the PATIENT (not the doc) has to initiate and go through the formal appeals process themselves.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's absolutely insane. As if peer to peer wasn't ridiculous enough now they are doing away with the system entirely...