To my knowledge, literally no one evaluates doctors based on how quickly and correctly they diagnose and treat their patients’ illnesses. Why aren’t payers doing this? Is it cheaper for payers to maintain the status quo? Is chronic illness more profitable than incentivizing doctors to correctly diagnosis and treat patients?
A brief primer on medical misogyny
Ran across this meme a few times recently: Like a normal person, I thought, “No, meme. That’s not right.” I “well, akshully”-ed a shitpost. My beef is based on what I learned in the process of writing a piece while working at the second wellness startup that employed me.
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