Recent content by Dusn

The best information would come from residents or former residents who have worked with the surgeon. I’d also prefer to go to a surgeon who gets referred the more complex anterior surgical pathology. But this info would be hard for a non-ophthalmologist to obtain and would be more limited to...

I’d disagree with offering “all of the available technologies.” Most of those technologies are marketing gimmicks and have a primary goal of making the surgery ineligible for Medicare reimbursement so that a higher out of pocket cost can be charged. Personally I’d want a surgeon that does not...

They’ve been able to send radiology images to India and other countries for decades now. 20 years ago they said that radiology jobs would be outsourced. Did it happen? No. Why not? Because you can’t sue a non-US radiologist. At the end of the day someone needs to take the liability and AI...

I’d argue that the reimbursement went down mainly because more health care dollars went to pharma and administration. It’s a zero-sum game. The cuts have happened for physicians across the board. Mostly the blame lies with Medicare not being able to negotiate drug costs. But we also waste...

I guess separate prelim intern years are completely gone now? That’s too bad. Instead of “dual-applying” my backup plan was to apply to some solid internship programs for my prelim year, and if I didn’t match into ophtho, I planned to try to convince (beg) the internship that accepted me to let...

Btw. For anyone looking to start their own practice, this site isn’t mine (I think I learned about it years ago from a poster on SDN) but it’s a helpful resource: www.soloeyedocs.com

I can’t speak from personal experience but I know people who are doing very well in SoCal as solo, young ophthalmologists. I’ve been quoted an average collections of $200 per patient visit from a retina doc in so cal - you can do the calculations yourself based on expected overhead and the...

Start your own practice. They’ll make you sign a noncompete and then, once you finally get fed up with them, you’ll need to leave the area. So if you have strong personal reasons to be in the area, I would not even consider PE as an option. PE is not a long term job.

how much do practices pay recruiters?

Have you seen how old the average eye clinic patient is? Aging is bad for the eyes. The biggest negative impact on patient volumes is patients dying early. Any intervention like these GLP drugs that helps them live longer will increase all sorts of eye diseases (including AMD) because, if you...

That is pathetic. I sincerely hope that no new graduates would even consider such an offer.

if PEs really wanted to be “efficient” they would just turn the fellows into injection monkeys and not let them waste time in the OR…. How long it will take them to realize that is a different question.

It that thing still kicking? I thought Bitcoin was already dead.

I’ve never seen a corrective action taken after an inappropriate behavior (or really any problem) has been reported. The only thought that goes through an administrator’s head when they pretend to be listening to you is, “is this person making my life easier or harder?”

Aravind seems like an impressive system. But I’d also take what they report with some skepticism. I’m somewhat familiar with Indian healthcare and complication doesn’t mean the same thing there as it does here. Patient expectations are entirely different. I suspect that even those of us who...