"re-coop your investment. You own chickens now!" Love it!!!! So true to life in the country. This time of year we pay with tomatoes and garden goodies.
@@williambrown319I don’t even live in the country anymore, but during hunting season all my friends and family barter with venison, javelina, boar, duck, dove, and rabbit meat. My kid is a teenager and he’s eagerly awaiting the season when he can do chores and odd-jobs in exchange for venison sausage.
My grandmother went into labor with my mother 80 some years ago at home. She was right in the middle of baking bread, after my mother was born my grandfather asked the doctor how much they owed him. He looked at my grandparents and told them that he would call it even for three loaves of bread, not a bad deal for a house call and delivering a baby.
That very well could have been my grandfather delivering the baby. He delivered “over 5,000 of them at home, many of them after arriving in a horse-drawn buggy. Then my dad graduated from med school the year I was born, and they became partners.
Darn good bread made from non-gmo flour and other ingredients free from noxious pesticides, herbicides, dough conditioners, and other stuff our grandmothers didn't recognize.
After watching Wendover's video about Dollar Stores, I have faith that private equity can find a way to extract money out rural communities. I wonder if something similar is possible in rural medicine.
@@olenickel6013Disagree. This portrayed rural community is free. They have their NEEDS (Shelter, Health, Food, Transportation, Clothes, Communication) taken care of. Lower their standards of WANTS and greed and they're untouchable. I have non-Amish friends who live in a similar non-Amish community and everyone takes care of each other.
People suffering from insurance companies' greed: Millions Those companies' net worth: Billions The look on Bartholomew's when he realized the staff couldn't care less about him and his money: Priceless🎉
@ahmadsaab5217 Of course they were. I meant they didn't really care about returning the guys' investment money. It became clear when they offered to pay him back in chickens
Reminds me of a story I heard some musicians tell. They were in a shady part of a Mexican tourist trap town and the cops tried to detain them if they didn't pay a bribe of like $100. Joke was on the cops though, these broke musicians only had like $15 so they let them go for the $15.
And the lore of Texaco Mike's Gas Station Mine and Observatory Fan Boat Therapy Service with a dual MRI/CT barbeque machine (which he probably also uses to smelt the ore) expands.
honestly Texaco Mike sounds like my husband. he's a theoretical nuclear physicist in Romania. we left 5 years to live in Michigan, when we came back what little infrastructure he made fell into disrepair. when you're a poor east european McGuiver seems like a toddler.
This was absolutely perfect - a big investment firm bought Pineville, KYs hospital for like, $2mill, thinking they could cash in on it being the only hospital in 15 miles - joke was on them, they lost so much money having to do things to bring the hospital back up to code and lost health insurance certifications because, hey, all of a sudden Texaco Mike doesn’t know the guy running the lab, so he ain’t getting certified for free, and basically they went bankrupt and the hospital got bailed out by the state
I’ll guarantee that private equity still made $ on that deal. They take their own $ out and then some long before the business crashes. The scene in Goodfellas demonstrating what happens when a small business owner takes on a Mob boss as a silent partner also describes private equity perfectly.
Don't worry, they'll get tax payers to bail out the debt/losses, AND buy a functioning company just to load it up with their debt. Then /that/ company goes bankrupt, not them. Just like any leaderboard, the guys at the top are always cheating.
God Bless rural doctors. I met one who told his son, "Do not go into medicine unless you are doing it for the patients, because insurance and paperwork makes your life hell." that was about 10-15 years ago. He also accepted chickens. xD -Texas
This is my favorite of the 30 days series. The truth is, most health care workers care more about helping than getting wealthy - at least in primary care. We need to stop aligning ourselves with those who see medicine as a revenue generator.
Its a job. You do it to get paid so that you can survive, pay your rent, your bills, put food on the table. Also its a shit job most of the time. Overworked, shitty admin, ungrateful patients, extreme work loads and hours and so forth. So yes, people do care more about getting paid than helping. That's not to say they don't care. Most do. However if it wasn't for the compensation then most wouldn't do this job. (Nurses, doctors, paramedics etc).
@@duckdictator6531 @kyba74 Thank you both for the work that you do. Being paid according to your worth is essential, that's indisputable. But there is a difference between getting paid and getting wealthy. It's the corporate leeches who are out to get wealthy.
@@duckdictator6531 There's a difference between those who get paid while doing their job correctly (healthcare professionals), and those who get paid while not doing it (healthcare administrators).
I've heard EXACTLY this conversation. My grandfather and his two brothers were surgeons and started a small hospital in the town next to our family farm. I won't say which hospital for privacy, and the "he doesn't care about this community".... yeah that one brought back some frustrating but pride filled memories. Rest in peace Captain. You will be missed.
@@VashdaCrash Just in case you aren't aware, "private equity" isn't the name of a company. It's a kind of investment fund that buys up businesses and reorganizes them to generate the most money for the investment fund possible, almost certainly to the point of totally destroying the business. Many companies can be considered "private equity".
I knew I could count on rural medicine to restore my faith that there is good in the world and there are people fighting for it. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear fleece.
We ❤ 💕 our house call vet! Makes things so much easier with cats that *HATE* the carrier and the car. And it was such a blessing when we had to put our sweet old sick cat to sleep. It must be so hard to do so much euthanasia, I can’t imagine. Thank you for what you do!
@@safaiaryu12 well thanks. But honestly, I started it for semi-selfish reasons. Just to be a better mother because I was a single mom and him being the first kid at daycare and the last picked up and then plopped in front of the TV at the clinic while I wrote stuff up and called clients didn’t seem like the way I wanted to raise my son. Turned out to be the best thing I ever did and now he’s 30 and an MD. As we stay in the house an RD. (“Real Doctor” 🤣🤣🤣) and I am loving doing house calls.
@animuldoc Single mom AND vet, whoosh!!! Hard enough keeping the home litter boxes clean--can't imagine keeping up with diaper changings AND paying for college 😹🤣😹🤣😹🤣‼️
I've been watching your channel for some time now, for some reason I underestimated the level of bro that ortho really involved, but today I went to my first ortho consultation ever, and we were going over my medical history which included a large pericardial effusion a few years ago and the surgeon responded with "so they stuck that big needle in your heart?! Like in Pulp Fiction?? Aww cool I've never gotten to do that!" and now I see where your character comes from and I appreciate it even more.
That's going to be an awkward fanboat ride with Texaco Mike. He helped raised those chickens. They have names. He has pictures. You too good for those noble feathered ladies, suit boy!
As someone who really wants to do time in rural med (thanks mostly to you) and who cherishes the "I have nothing to lose, you can't manipulate me" positions in life, this installment was the first one to be heartwarmingly inspiring for me instead of depressing
Love the video! The funny thing is I cover vacations for anesthesia at a very rural critical access hospital. They have all the nice things. Multiple farmers have donated over $1M to the hospital and one farmer gave $8M.
Hurrah for Rural Health!! Always fighting the good fight, one chicken at a time. Rural is similar to mental health in that there is no money to be made, so when we're told about the possibility of services being taken over by private firms (this is in the UK where we are facing creeping privatisation), we take bets on how long it is until they pull out of the deal and the services are back with the NHS.
A rural hospital about an hour's drive from me went under in 2014. They were done in by an inability to fill inpatient beds. Many private practices had switched to doing outpatient surgery in their own facilities, plus insurance companies were refusing to authorize inpatient stays over 24 hours for major surgeries and baby deliveries. Add to that declining Medicare reimbursements. They tried and failed at chapter 11 reorganization and eventually filed chapter 7 bankruptcy leaving a very large area multi-state region without a hospital for over a decade. Recently a large conglomerate hospital system bought the little hospital for pennies on the dollar and is reopening it next year as a satellite clinic.
Doc Glauc couldn't handle dealing with the clusterfuck that is US healthcare for a whole month, but decided to keep going for at least another 3 days. RIP
@@mineown1861 I...don't know how much clearer I can be? There was a typo, and instead of thirty days, it said three. The good doc was quick in fixing it.
Awww Rural Medicine is so wholesome. I really appreciate this one after the painful, but hilarious reminders about the misery in our health care system so far this month! Please continue to spread awareness about the changes that need to be made in healthcare!
😂😂😂 I LOVED this one! Truly made me laugh! The ‘rest’ of the truths are depressing and painful. Our healthcare isn’t ‘going to hell in a hand basket’, it’s already there. Not to make you a target yourself, but some insight on what we can do would be helpful? I, for one, don’t know the first thing about instigating ‘big change’. But I do know that you have provided a great service to us by creating these videos. So great job! Stay safe and blessed! ♥️🙏♥️
@@pedropimenta896 that’s much easier said than done. You’re kidding right? Unless you’re one of the top 1% in this country wealth wise, you couldn’t afford it. And if that were my case, I would be seeking my healthcare here in this country by a doctor who actually addresses the source of health issues, rather than just throwing pills at symptoms. Which, in fact, insurance also DOES NOT COVER. Integrative medicine doesn’t keep you in the sick and pharmaceutical consuming state which is where it seems to want to keep people.
Join a "March for Medicare for all" group or some other group organizing to pressure Congress/president. ...Insurance lobbies donate a lot of campaign cash; I'm not going to lie to you and say this will be easy.
Rural medicine is one of my favorites. Every time I end up laughing. Hope to see some medical bill coding stuff one day. There is a silver mine in that. Like how doctors just code whatever and leave it to some one else to figure out… or how there is a team of people that just handles the rejections or denials from the insurance companies, so that the bill is covered and what not.
Ooooo, I just love this one! The whole 30 days is fabulous and incredibly needed as a public service announcement. Endless thanks to Dr. Glaucomflecken.
Every time rural medicine shows up I am more in awe of Texaco Mike. It's not everyone who can not only build his own MRI/X-ray machine but also brew the contrast dye for it. I'm not at all surprised that he forges suture needles, but that he mines his own ore and smelts himself. Texaco Mike is a true polymath.
GPS can't lose signal. That's the one advantage it has. Well, unless Texaco Mike leaves the shielding off his MRI again. But you can tell when he's doing that because all the lights start flashing-in a 20mi radius.
He chose the smartest way to go about this by showing private equity there was no money to be made , if he would have said no he would have been hassled constantly to sell , this way they are not going to come back
There are corporations buying up practices and hospitals in tons of rural areas, then outsourcing all administrative to offshore companies that don’t bother to learn how our stupid healthcare system works (dealing with the insurance industry) which leads to tons of wasted money, people not getting the care they deserve, and medical personnel not being paid. At least, that is what I witnessed taking calls from providers while working for an insurance company that had several Medicaid contracts. And then when I moved to a rural community in another state, the same thing was happening to the local hospital and at least one of the medical groups. The whole thing is absurd.
So Jasper is a pharmacist, dentist, and a moonshiner. I’m fine with this. If the sheriff has a problem he knows there’s only one guy that can compound, make the alcohol wipes, and fill his cavity. And it’s a lot easier to let him do his thing and ensure the town has access to pharmacy and dental services as well as being able to better sterilize medical equipment.
Inside two weeks, one friend had double knee surgery after tripping on the fireground, one other 9days in hospital after a stroke, with a ride in a medical chopper...no bills to anyone. None. Australian universal healthcare. Thank you
I was heading to retirement. Tried and tried to find someone interested in taking over my rural practice. Everyone wanted bright and shiny with CT and MRI next door. Just not going to happen in a town of 3,500 people. Finally sold to a group that owned 10 city and rural practices. Nothing as rural as mine though. Then private equity made them an offer they couldn't refuse. They closed my practice and sent me a letter telling me my services were no longer needed. Ouch! I don't have enough oomph to start over. Non- providers owning practices is a horrible idea . But it is now the norm.
We're not rural, but we did once trade moving a piano for stitches/surgical gluing my daughter's ear. It felt like the old days! (It was the height of the COVID pandemic and ERs were overrun. My friend's husband was a surgeon who offered to fix her ear and we happened to have a piano moving business and they happened to need a piano moved.)
The husband of one of my mom's patients (general and trauma surgery) was a retired Nasa engineer who didnt really get along with kids. He came to gift my mom with Aparagus but 5 year old me opened the door instead. I was disappointed but as I had been forewarned about my neighbor being as awkward as I was ans me being as adult as I could be, I accepted them as gracefully as I could muster and at dinner I smothered them with ketchup.
