AW: AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

[Michael Firstenberg]

It is a free market system.  Different insurance contracts get negotiated for different service.  Billboards and marketing all over the place.  Everyone trying to one up the hospital across the street and so on.  While there is an understandable need for quality control we are talking about humans and disease not building and selling cars.  

Not paying me (or any surgeon) or my hospital for complications implies we have complete control.  My former chairman said never blame the patient for a complication - but guess what - sometimes it is the patients fault.  They are obviously left out of this loop of responsibility.

Of course with every new govt regulation will spark an entire industry devoted to scamming around it.

Michael Firstenberg <msfirst at gmail.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Rwmfglycar at aol.com
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: 10/4/2007 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

 
In a message dated 10/4/2007 7:10:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
benjamin.bidstrup at bigpond.com writes:

Very  little infection comes from the surgeon. 
Masks and gloves are more for our  protection.

>It is very simple to think that washing more our hands  the patients will be
>more protected against infection, ...but what  about the patient´s skin and
>so on?
>



The fact is that the patient is protected from infection by the whole  system 
which includes every detail in and out of the operating suite. If any one  of 
us were to sit down and make a list of possible failures of prevention  of  
infection I bet it would not be hard to reach a 100.  That is  why there is 
some virtue in forcing the issue by refusing to pay for infectious  
complications. My suspicion is that this edict may be a deliberate move to  manipulate the 
health care system, to force it into a free enterprise  competitive  mold.
Bob 



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