PGY3 PM&R @browardhealth Former Div I ⚾️ full-time family man 👨👩👧👦👶🏼. part-time bodybuilder. 🏋️ connoisseur of cookies 🍪
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JC Leach retweeted
Just your friendly reminder that if you died today, your big hospital would replace you tomorrow.
But your family and friends couldn’t.
Make sure to have those priorities straight.
#MedTwitter
JC Leach retweeted
Healthcare isn’t expensive.
Bureaucracy is.
Physicians, nurses, and clinical staff are underpaid relative to the value they deliver.
The real cost drivers?
Health system monopolies,
bloated administrative salaries,
and vertical consolidation that forces employers and patients into higher premiums and worse care.
Break the monopoly.
Restore competition.
Bring back physician autonomy.
#healthcare
Always appreciate you advocating for us!
If you think physicians are overpaid, maybe you should take the necessary course work in undergrad, take and pass the MCAT, apply for med schools, pay hundreds of thousands for tuition, learn for 4 years in a very high pressure learning environment, then pay thousands more to apply for a training job that you may or may not get, then if you do get it, you get to work 80 hours a week making $15/hour for 3 - 9 years wherein more than one day off in a row is a rarity, all the while many normal life events and processes get pushed to the side, then you FINALLY get a “real” job that’ll pay very well but you’ll realize your patients are not your customers (the insurance companies are), they are the product, and you’ll realize you have a lot to learn about the business of medicine in order to advocate for your patients and for yourself in order to be okay.
Then YOU can say “no thanks I don’t deserve to make that much.”
Or you can just skip all of that, realize now that the insurance and hospital system complexes are trying to hoodwink you, and appreciate the life work and care physicians commit to all of us, recognizing that while all things in medicine play a role in what we see today, physicians themselves are not the villain.
They are on our side.
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JC Leach retweeted
Residents aren’t getting paid enough.
I say it a lot because they still aren’t getting paid enough.
JC Leach retweeted
Still #unmatched. Looking for any IM prelim or transitional PGY-1 positions— taking steps I need to improve for #match2025, and not giving up on my dream yet. Thanks to all who have reached out or assisted me in the past two weeks.
JC Leach retweeted
Still scrambling, but have a path forward. Looking for prelim IM/transitional programs, or pediatrics to enable me to go to child neuro in the future, as #SOAP2024 really convinced me that I want more children in my life 🦄🥳
One round left in #SOAP2024 , and as of now I am still unmatched. ECFMG certified (grad 3/29/2024), Step 1/2 complete, 3 in process. 2 years of USCE: medical school, 12 years prior as a nurse/medical assistant. Interested in prelim IM/peds, adult and child neuro, psych. Thanks!
I couldn’t be more excited. Being an IMG I needed to dual apply but continued to work my ass off to make my dream specialty a reality.
#physiatry
#Match2024
@BrowardHealth
JC Leach retweeted
If you didn’t believe me when I said that the loss of ERAS revenue is an existential threat for the AAMC, take a look at this ‘not for circulation’ e-mail they sent to medical school deans, urging them to keep program directors from switching to another application system.
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ALT Screenshot of an e-mail from Dr. Alison Whelan to her Council of Deans colleagues, warning against ‘fragmentation’ of the residency application market, and noting attachments including discussion questions with ERAS talking points and a template e-mail.
JC Leach retweeted
Next time you’re inclined to blame physician compensation for your healthcare costs, take a pause.
This study is relevant to Medicare-related procedures.
Here is a nice schematic from our first @aahks health policy fellowship meeting outlining what everyone is discussing - reimbursements to hospitals have a law factoring in inflationary benefit while physicians do not
JC Leach retweeted
Resident starting pay should be $100k/year
#MedTwitter where my neuro enthusiast at??
Watch #70 at the end of this play? What in the matrix glitch happened?! Never seen anything like this before.
I was rewatching highlights of the game from yesterday, and noticed Rams Joe Noteboom (#70) have an odd shaking moment at the end of this play.
Does anyone know what happened here?
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JC Leach retweeted
Hi, ER Doc here.
RT if you’ve ever done CPR on someone and they survived.
Trying to prove something.
“51% of individuals with Post-traumatic osteoarthritis will develop a myocardial infarction later in life.”
Treating the patient as a whole opposed to just the injury is crucial to overall mortality!
#AAPMR23
#MedTwitter