Submitted Jan 19 to the Capital Journal in Pierre, SD. It had to fit into a word-limited field, so it's pretty short on Ethos and Pathos and sounds a bit grumpy. Oh well... better next time.
Financial incentives must change so hospitals will treat people with covid on an outpatient basis before they become critically ill.
Early outpatien…
Submitted Jan 19 to the Capital Journal in Pierre, SD. It had to fit into a word-limited field, so it's pretty short on Ethos and Pathos and sounds a bit grumpy. Oh well... better next time.
Financial incentives must change so hospitals will treat people with covid on an outpatient basis before they become critically ill.
Early outpatient treatments prescribed by doctors in some states have been successful. FDA is approving early treatment therapeutics offered up by pharma. Protocols that work are freely shared by the hands-on physicians who use them.
Doctors affiliated with South Dakota hospital systems should be encouraged and freed to use all of their knowledge and skill to give early patient-centered therapeutic treatment in a clinic, and then send the person home to convalesce.
Subsidies that reward hospitals for inpatient treatment of covid should end. Hospitals should not get increased payment for treating a covid patient who dies. Financial motivations to keep covid as a special income stream for hospitalizing patients must end. Treat the patient, not the disease.
Submitted Jan 19 to the Capital Journal in Pierre, SD. It had to fit into a word-limited field, so it's pretty short on Ethos and Pathos and sounds a bit grumpy. Oh well... better next time.
Financial incentives must change so hospitals will treat people with covid on an outpatient basis before they become critically ill.
Early outpatient treatments prescribed by doctors in some states have been successful. FDA is approving early treatment therapeutics offered up by pharma. Protocols that work are freely shared by the hands-on physicians who use them.
Doctors affiliated with South Dakota hospital systems should be encouraged and freed to use all of their knowledge and skill to give early patient-centered therapeutic treatment in a clinic, and then send the person home to convalesce.
Subsidies that reward hospitals for inpatient treatment of covid should end. Hospitals should not get increased payment for treating a covid patient who dies. Financial motivations to keep covid as a special income stream for hospitalizing patients must end. Treat the patient, not the disease.