Remember that "do no harm" part of the physician's oath? Well, doctors may pledge to it but I'm sure that medical corporations DON'T bother. All they care about is money. I've been told by The Neurology Center that I can't see my neurologist anymore because I have the wrong kind of insurance policy. I've been seeing this doctor for 25 years, he renews the proscription for the anticonvulsant I take to treat my epilepsy. Without it I am doomed. But the Neurology Center doesn't care.
@jjGravitas actually, the original Hippocratic oath includes the line “ I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love.”
- the modern oath has been drastically changed
@jjGravitas Profit over patients and prudence. That's the kind of thing our for-profit medical profession breeds. If it isn't a dollar bill, the health care industry couldn't care less about it. 😡
@POOetryma @jjGravitas Some of them have had their executives go on record as saying that they don't make money from people who get cured, they make money from sick people.
@AskTheDevil @jjGravitas Unfortunately, they have a point. If nobody gets sick, then why have doctors? If a sick person visits the doctor and gets cured, the doc gets paid only once. But if, like auto mechanics, they instead fix the problem just enough to make the patient happy w/o really solving the problem, he has a guaranteed steady income. This is the HMO way.
@jjGravitas I am sorry, that sucks! My daughter has epilepsy & a shunt, saw her surgeons for all her life but she aged out of peds a few years ago so we had to switch to adult providers. I asked who they recommended and we were able to switch to a neurosurgeon who trained under the head of the peds team! That was a relief. Do you have to switch to an entire new clinic or just to a different dr within the practice?
@AverageCitizen I have to switch to a doctor who accepts my health plan. I hate switching doctors, they always wanna try something different when I already know what works.
@jjGravitas I worried about that when we switched to an adult neurologist. Thankfully he kept everything the same and didn’t even make her do any testing (aside from labs to check liver function). I hope you get as lucky as we did. Are you able to still contact your old doctor, perhaps he can refer you to a new neurologist who accepts your insurance?
@jjGravitas I was told they recently changed the oath doctors take in Canada to accommodate for the MAID program