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Re:The death dilemma: Are hospitals overtreating patients ne... by ako on Saturday October 08, 2022 @10:49AM (#33132748)
Hospitals and doctors are already fully booked, they don't need the additional work from overmedicating and overtreating patients in the last weeks of their lives.
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Re:The death dilemma: Are hospitals overtreating patients ne... by sandworm101 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:39AM (#33133204)
Being overbooked is only the start of profitability. Just like airlines, once you have the customer inside your facility, you upsell. A patient recuperating/dieing in a bed nets only a daily rate. You need to then charge for as many additional treatments as possible.
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Re:The death dilemma: Are hospitals overtreating patients ne... by physPop on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:55AM (#33133355)
Only in broken for-profit systems. This is a non issue in Canada and UK.
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Re:The death dilemma: Are hospitals overtreating patients ne... by peyton on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:20AM (#33140704)
How? Canada is largely fee-for-service AFAIK, and the NHS mainly uses basically a big chargemaster for acute care.
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Re:The death dilemma: Are hospitals overtreating patients ne... by _qua on Saturday October 08, 2022 @05:20PM (#33136125)
This is not how hospitals work. There are always outliers that get news stories but most physicians do not wish to torture the dying.
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