services. explain that one, if you can. it was not easy, john. one of the more bizarre aspects of the approach to health care, that is it sometimes goes out of the way to spend more money than necessary. cancer treatments paying hospitals far more for multitude of cancer centers. listen. there about 40% more expensive than they are here. it affects the co-pay, others as well. not only do they work with the outpatient setting but the patient pays more. all the data suggests they pay 20 to 30% more. the house what is paid twice as much for chemo as a community center does. for the patient it is about price and convenience. i can come here and get chemo
we prescribe, and i really do think that that hinders us from being able to provide the best care for patients. are there other things that you you wish you could do in the care of your patients as a nurse practitioner that you can t do right now that can be improved upon? in my particular practice, which is pulmonary, i actually do have a lot of independence, and i can follow patients in the outpatient setting, and i also see patients in the hospital setting. and so i m really i don t feel that limited in the things that i can do, because i m in a specialty practice. right. with my education, i m able to use that. there are certainly some things that i cannot do that a physician has to do, and that s kind of what puts me aside on this one side of this topic. but, again, in my practice, lacking prescription authority for narcotics really does hinder me in being able to provide care for my patients. i think this was a fascinating discussion. one that s going to be very, ve
medical morbidity and mortality conferences and mistakes are brought forth to discuss, amongst your peers and that can be from the residents to the attendings to the chairman of the department and what we are discussing is this complication that occurred and deaths that occurred to find out why it happened and was it due to human error, due to patient disease. or mistake in a judgment, and that already exists and works great for an in-hospital situation, where mistake happens and the patient is in the hospital and that is usually reported by the resident or potentially, attending staff to the chairman, and where it fails is where, outpatient setting and the private practices where doctors are now basically in a position where they can volunteer the information, volunteer the mistake and that is difficult to do, because we live in a litigious society and doctors are afraid of being sued even if they are told, studies show that if you apologize to
previous patients. what do you expect that that sort of pace will continue or slow? what sort of future. we ll continue to mark her progress. we re talking about a four to six-month process regardless of how quickly somebody recovers because it s a lot to do, and i think there s still issues over the next week or two that we re going to be addressing, and so i think overall we re looking at months. months here in the hospital? either on the acute side or on the rehab side. it may not be that long in the hospital but at some point from patients can continue their rehab os an outpatient setting. okay. guys, thanks you very much. we really appreciate you guys. all right. there you have it, the update on