Comments on: Can Doctors Practice Preventive Medicine and Still Make a Living? http://www.nakedmedicine.com/can-doctors-practice-preventive-medicine-and-still-make-a-living Let's Face It: Medicine is Business! -- Hosted by Jane Chin, Ph.D. @janechin #pharma Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:17:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jane Chin, Ph.D. http://www.nakedmedicine.com/can-doctors-practice-preventive-medicine-and-still-make-a-living/comment-page-1#comment-4720 Jane Chin, Ph.D. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:02:19 +0000 http://www.nakedmedicine.com/?p=42#comment-4720 @<a href="http://www.nakedmedicine.com/can-doctors-practice-preventive-medicine-and-still-make-a-living#comment-4718" rel="nofollow"> Sevoflurane</a>: Thank you for your input! Your comment is valuable because it is from a patient's point of view, and this business model claims to be beneficial for the patients. @ Sevoflurane:

Thank you for your input! Your comment is valuable because it is from a patient’s point of view, and this business model claims to be beneficial for the patients.

]]> By: Sevoflurane http://www.nakedmedicine.com/can-doctors-practice-preventive-medicine-and-still-make-a-living/comment-page-1#comment-4718 Sevoflurane Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:31:47 +0000 http://www.nakedmedicine.com/?p=42#comment-4718 I was recently abandoned by my physician of 15 years because the group he is with decided to switch over to this form of elitist healthcare. In this case, the greedy third party outsider that brought this all about is MDVIP. If I wanted to continue on with my physician, I would have to sign a contract and pay MDVIP $1,500.00 per year simply to have access to my doctor. My primary insurance company would still be forced to pay for all office visits, lab tests and any in-house procedures. In retrospect, I never needed a third party outsider to get quality care from my physician and I’m not about to line the pockets of some greed driven outsider who has absolutely no interest in my well being. This concept is very unethical and patients are the real losers under this particular business model. Medicare and all insurance companies should refuse reimbursing physicians who adopt this approach to patient care. I was recently abandoned by my physician of 15 years because the group he is with decided to switch over to this form of elitist healthcare. In this case, the greedy third party outsider that brought this all about is MDVIP. If I wanted to continue on with my physician, I would have to sign a contract and pay MDVIP $1,500.00 per year simply to have access to my doctor. My primary insurance company would still be forced to pay for all office visits, lab tests and any in-house procedures. In retrospect, I never needed a third party outsider to get quality care from my physician and I’m not about to line the pockets of some greed driven outsider who has absolutely no interest in my well being. This concept is very unethical and patients are the real losers under this particular business model. Medicare and all insurance companies should refuse reimbursing physicians who adopt this approach to patient care.

]]> By: Po Jen 博仁 Ko 柯 http://www.nakedmedicine.com/can-doctors-practice-preventive-medicine-and-still-make-a-living/comment-page-1#comment-2950 Po Jen 博仁 Ko 柯 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:00:03 +0000 http://www.nakedmedicine.com/?p=42#comment-2950 yes, i do believe so. as a vascular surgeion, take the vascular access as an example, i perform the prevention of access occlusion by some treatments (such as angioplasty ...) on my patients. and those prevention works take up more and more my working hours every year. thus, as a surgeon, i can stll earn my living from doing preventive procedures. i think, that's the trend a the right direction. yes, i do believe so. as a vascular surgeion, take the vascular access as an example, i perform the prevention of access occlusion by some treatments (such as angioplasty …) on my patients. and those prevention works take up more and more my working hours every year.
thus, as a surgeon, i can stll earn my living from doing preventive procedures. i think, that’s the trend a the right direction.

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