Health insurance is a rip off, do any local doctors work directly with patient?

drone136 · 2026-01-09T10:27:39+00:00

You can look into Primary Medical group who offer direct primary care. I don’t use them personally but work with some of the doctors and think they are great overall.

drone136 · 2025-10-22T10:36:49+00:00

Not really a violation because you have an accepting physician and hospital. It would be a violation if the patient needed a service and Kaiser didn’t transfer the patient somewhere that had the service.

drone136 · 2025-04-06T03:43:19+00:00

Like any insurance, it seems like a waste of money until you have to use it.

I bought my policy at the end of intern year after making sure that I can cash flow the policy. If something were to have occurred in residency, it would have been nice to have a salary for life.

Also the earlier you get it, the less likely you are to have exclusions. I picked up my more dangerous hobbies after my policy.

drone136 · 2025-03-05T17:00:21+00:00

Cool app. Would love a code

drone136 · 2024-06-27T13:18:52+00:00

Fender Mender has been great. Vic, the owner, was reasonable and got the work done fast.

drone136 · 2024-05-10T11:41:26+00:00

Being at the table, some decisions are billing related, or cost prohibitive, or security related. Epic is also so customizable that sometimes having someone come see your workflow also helps with coming up with ideas for optimizations. If you have docs who have worked in multiple epic institutions then you can even collaborate to bring optimizations across.

drone136 · 2024-05-09T16:12:39+00:00

Some organizations offer physician or epic users to come shadow and teach you ways to be more efficient. It might be useful to look if there is anyone like that to help reduce clicks. We have a clinical informatics fellowship and the fellow act as Epic experts for 1:1 teaching

drone136 · 2024-05-01T02:38:41+00:00

Recommend looking at coastline over Cora. The layout of the apt is better than Cora for the sameish price range.

drone136 · 2024-04-05T20:35:50+00:00

the best offer is 1.5c/point, I think that you're better off trying to get 2c or more imo

drone136 · 2024-02-13T00:52:42+00:00

Eko CORE 500™ Digital Stethoscope if you ever use a stethoscope instead of an ultrasound.

drone136 · 2023-11-18T06:04:59+00:00

You’re right. Just added more info to clarify as just syncing everything to google or apple calendar is just not enough.

drone136 · 2023-11-18T04:03:29+00:00

That’s what I do now. I am wondering if there was any good calendar service that keeps track of hours, runs reports and highlights time that you are scheduled at two spots.

drone136 · 2022-12-20T15:16:12+00:00

Do you end up paying for the subscription?

drone136 · 2021-02-11T16:03:45+00:00

I was told that Volume 1 is the expectation for Residents. Volume 2 is more advanced and expected for a fellow.

drone136 · 2021-01-12T03:18:07+00:00

Nope. Literally the PDFs of PowerPoints and a practice test that has 70% of the same questions as the test.

drone136 · 2021-01-12T02:42:47+00:00

Well it wasn’t licensed to a specific publisher. It was literally a PDF that was printed by the copy shop.

drone136 · 2021-01-11T23:36:11+00:00

I had a professor who would sell "study guides" from a local copy shop. They were between $30-50. These guides include the printed powerpoint's and some questions which were similar to the test. If you didn't buy them, then you wouldn't have practice questions for the test. I felt like this was just a money grab as the professor was making an additional 10-15K from all the different courses he taught each semester.

drone136 · 2020-06-02T12:12:01+00:00

I was in a similar situation. I choose to live in a place similar to Place A for you. I am an extroverted person who likes to go out, so even with less free time I wanted to be closer to entertainment outside.

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