This is the teaser for the upcoming series on inherent problems in U.S. healthcare, where we'll talk about the absurd costs of our healthcare, the trend towards Corporatization of healthcare, and some other major pitfalls of the American medical system. My guest on this series is Dr. Taylor Beckman, a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at The University of Louisville, whose starting his cardiology fellowship at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in July. This series is a little more conversational and laid back. Feedback is welcome!
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[00:00:00] Hey everybody, this is the teaser for the upcoming series on inherent problems in U.S. health care,
[00:00:06] where we'll talk about the cost, corporatization, and major pitfalls of the American medical system.
[00:00:13] My guest on this series is Dr. Taylor Beckman, a third-year internal medicine resident at the
[00:00:18] University of Louisville, who's starting his cardiology fellowship at the University of represented 5% of our GDP. By 1984 that number had jumped up to 10% and by 2021 that number is now 18.3% inching closer to 1 fifth of all the money that we spend as a country is going towards healthcare. Absolutely ludicrous. This
[00:01:43] corporatization of medicine it is not just restricted to classical medicine, 1.2% on payers administrative costs. Most countries are somewhere between 0.1% of their GDP and 0.2%. If you talk to my parents as far back as they can remember, I was going to be a doctor in like fourth grade. I was going to be a radiologist and when they asked why, I would say that it's a really
[00:03:03] chill lifestyle.
[00:03:06] Fourth grade, ready for that chill lifestyle. I don't want to fail. I don't want to be seen as a failure. I don't want to consider myself as a failure Instead of really finding what do you want to do instead of what are you? Driving away from instead If I didn't feel inadequate sometimes Well, I probably wouldn't have the same drive to go and do things
[00:04:20] It's funny how we look back and we view things that happen in our lives
[00:05:25] insurance companies to have access to all of your medical records. They then can find loopholes for why they shouldn't pay for things.
[00:05:31] I've been working in healthcare for 10 years and I still struggle with insurance.
[00:05:37] It is a complicated topic, but I think that doctors are intentionally kept in the dark
[00:05:42] because if we knew how much people are going the ICU, it's estimated to be $10,000. You might as well go to the Ritz Carlton and rent out the executive suite. You're gonna be treated a lot better, I'll tell you. The fact that hospitals can charge whatever they want and for hundreds of percent of profit is, I think, absurd.
[00:07:00] I struggle with wondering if I am actually making a difference That works well when you're talking about selling a toy Jeep to my one year old son. Market the shit out of that. Call it the greatest Jeep that's ever existed for a little kid to ride around in. We're spending a surprisingly low amount of money on primary care funding. It's because we don't have any primary care doctors.
[00:08:22] Canada, Germany's been 13 to 15, Spain's been 17.
[00:08:26] We spend less than 7%. getting a facility fee. I'm surprised they didn't charge me for sleeping in the hospital room. Walgreens doesn't bill a consumer separately for its rent and electricity. A study published by patientrightsadvocate.org reviewed 2000 hospitals in February in 2023 and found that only a quarter of them had followed through with the price transparency rule
[00:09:42] requirements. Dr. Sohe who was around beforeopped images of the beta tau proteins in some of these microscope slides. There are a lot of good things about Ozimpic. It has its cons as well. People that are just using Ozimpic and they're losing weight because they're eating less, but they're not increasing their amount of exercise.
[00:11:02] There's preliminary data showing that they're losing muscle. to looking for silver bullets or promoting treatments at the expense of Americans health. Anything we can do to get the business out of medicine, because as a business, its main goal is going to be profits. We could stop spending a trillion dollars a year on defense and maybe utilize
[00:12:20] some of those funds for more government sponsored healthcare.
[00:12:25] When you are in the hospital, you should ask for a price list because right now
[00:13:25] either be part of the change or get the fuck out of the way. Somebody get this guy some help!
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