CMS Proposes Primary Care Raises Funded With Specialist Cuts

[DrAwsome]

1. No one said anything about PCPs working for hospitals. My situation was regarding PCPs who do have to worry about insurance payments. So it is not a moot point, it is a valid point.

2. I addressed your main point - the amount of PCPs. Financial incentive to distribute PCPs in areas of need to increase access. Can't you just have a rational discussion.

3. A naive and ignorant medical student? Fair enough, I don't take that as an insult, even if you meant it that way.

4. Congratulations on all your success. I hope you enjoy rad onc more than you apparently enjoyed derm. If not, we could always use more family physicians .

5. Be humble and learn from others? Oh I consider myself very good at that, but you don't make it easy. I have never said anything to offend or challenge your experience (the quotes around resident were not meant to offend). You seem to be channeling your anger from other posters to me.

1-Well I did, and it seems to be the way medicine is going, not just for PCPs but for most doctors.
2-You did not. Even if we redistribute the current # of PCPs to other areas that are underserved, then you've simply shifted the problem. There are still millions of people who can't get services due to lack of PCPs number wise. You have not come up with a way to solve that problem.
3-Not an insult
4-It's not about "success"-they are just facts. If you cared to learn from others, you would know in part why I had the switch in specialties
5-I have no anger. I don't appreciate bieng insulted. You are free to believe as you'd like but you have to respect others' views

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[MedicineDoc]

I amnot saying anything pejorative about PCPs. I am voicing my thoughts that it is more cost efficient to have midlevels. If anything you and burger have suggested that current PCPs suck, I have not. So stop trolling. either have a normal discussion or get out of the forum.

Yeah that's right try and pull back a little bit so you can keep the trolling game going.

 

[DrAwsome]

This chick is hilarious. I pretty much had to read that last part like three times to make sure I wasn't missing any epic sarcasm. I wasn't.

You go from forum to forum spewing hatred on the different specialties. Maybe you couldn't get into the specialty you wanted because you weren't competitive, I don't know. You've dissed rads, anesthesia already. Probably others as well. You act like you are some sort of expert and as if others care about what you have to say? Are you serious?

It's laughable. If you can't talk to others why bother showing up? As I told the med student, learn to be humble.

 

[DrAwsome]

Yeah that's right try and pull back a little bit so you can keep the trolling game going.

I have no clue why you are so angry. Does it anger you so much that I think midlevels are most cost effective? Seriously?

No one said they are better than PCPs simply cheaper. Just like CRNAs are used in anesthesia to cover deficits and since htey are cheaper than an anesthesiologist.

I'm not sure why that's so evil?

 

[MedicineDoc]

I wonder how obnoxious you have to be to get kicked out of dermatopathology where you look at slides all day.

 

[DrAwsome]

I wonder how obnoxious you have to be to get kicked out of dermatopathology where you look at slides all day.

? Who are you talking to? If it's me, I wasn't in dermatopathology, so I have no idea what you are talking about. I wasn't kicked out of anywhere, and I would highly suggest to stop trolling and attacking me personally.

 

[smq123]

All right, that's enough.

Closing.