Archived App Shows You Which Surgeons Are The Most Dangerous (popsci.com)
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Archived App Shows You Which Surgeons Are The Most Dangerous (popsci.com)
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[–] Dudas 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Ok, so now surgeons will just flat-out refuse to operate on people who smoke, people with diabetes, people who are overweight or obese, people with clotting problems, alcoholics, people who abuse narcotics, people with immune disorders, people with heart/kidney/liver problems, or people with any other prior conditions that might increase complications.
When the government began toying with the idea of tying medicare reimbursements to procedure outcomes, a lot of doctors started refusing to operate on patients who were at high risk for complications. It sounds really cold, but at the end of the day you can't blame them for refusing to jeopardize their businesses because of someone else's poor life decisions that led them to such a state of illness.
EDIT: Yeah, what @bayesianqueer said!
[–] Ilvi 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Really? Business over humanity? O.O
[–] Dudas ago (edited ago)
Yes, really... but it's not as bad as all that.
It's not like the docs are in the E.R. saying, "No, this fatty bleeding out on the table is going to fuck up my S/D ratio! I'm not touching it!" It's more like a guy comes into the office needing their hernia fixed (not an emergency), and the docs are saying, "Stop smoking, lose 30 lbs, and come back in 2 months and we'll schedule surgery right away. If you don't do those things, don't bother coming back in here. You can find someone else."