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In response to "LIR: mara. Obama is clueless about doctor's roles and physician reimbursement. " by James Bond (aka Igor)

no bias at that site at all

Posted by hachiko (aka chris) Oct 19 '10, 20:25

how much does the hospital get reimbursed for an amputation surgery in total? the surgeon's fee is only one piece of the overall hospitalization

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Implying that doctors ignore treating the disease so they can make the big bucks amputating instead is a special level of ignorant. - Stephen Oct 19, 20:38 4
- ::opens st, skims, sees this:: I'm not reading anything else here; but if someone said that, it's idiotic. (share.) - b! Oct 19, 21:16 3
  - That's horrible, i'm very sorry to hear that. -- nm - Stephen Oct 19, 21:23
  - i'm really sorry to hear that. -- nm - TFox Oct 19, 21:18 1
    - thank you. -- nm - b! Oct 19, 21:21
This is the first site that google showed with this video. I am not looking at the commentary. I am going - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 19, 20:30 8
- i have no idea. i'm not a surgeon. if he meant only the surgeon him/herself gets the whole $30k reimbursement, maybe. how much does the entire - hachiko Oct 19, 20:33 7
  - My interpretation of that quote is that the surgeon gets $30-50k for the amputation. Which is extremely false. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 19, 20:38 6
    - my interpretation of the American College of Surgeon's quote is that an amputation only costs the patient $740-$1,140. no fucking way that's true -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 20:40 5
      - I understand that you have better read comprehension skills than me. But where do you see anything about it costing the patient? - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 19, 20:45 3
        
        again, answer the question: how much does an entire hospital stay for an amputation cost, start to finish? -- nm - hachiko Oct 19, 20:47 2
        
        Don't know. I will tell you next year. I am assuming our interpretations of his statement are different. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 19, 20:56
        
        The patient should just do it himself like James Franco. -- nm - Dano Oct 19, 20:49
      - but who gives a shit about them? -- nm - TFox Oct 19, 20:41
Are you suggesting they misquoted the American College of Surgeons statement? -- nm - Ender Oct 19, 20:30
Are you sure? I mean yah the subtitle for the site is "Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias" but that's probably just the WordPress template! -- nm - Qale Oct 19, 20:27

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