Are there Illuminati doctors? Like if you have a billion dollars can you get a better doctor that is more efficient at figuring out your shit?
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No, based on my data points of super rich people seeking care. They just get a lot more of the 5-star luxury side care. They can access expensive and bleeding edge therapies including illegal ones, but they don’t work well enough to be called Illuminati med
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My biggest frustration is the amount of time it can take to get a proper diagnosis for something. Can be weeks of getting routed between different doctors before you can even begin treating something.
Have dealt with this for various sports injuries, infections, etc.
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Ah yes, there’s no Illuminati doctors but there are Illuminati Skip the Line passes
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Not good enough for illuminati. I want a smarter, more efficient, more incentivized doctor who is going to fix my shit fast.
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The top 1% of every field can typically charge more for better performance. But seemingly not true for doctors. I want, e.g., the Federer of dermatologists to get me right ASAP. And if I were a billionaire, I’d be ready to pay up.
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I don’t know that such outlier performance can exist in medicine. It’s not a field of prodigies and genuises. The House show painted a convincing portrait of a type of savant doctor who doesn’t exist.
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That’s probably true but I do think maybe motivation and focus could get you outlier outcomes in a different economic / pricing arrangement.
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Doctor serving 20 patients per day is like asking an engineer to work on 20 features at once.
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Unless you specialize. There are eye and heart doctors in India who operate that way. Assembly line of cases dealt with in six-sigma process. Cataracts, routine cardiac surgery etc are ideal for this. And as a plus these doctors also get good at exceptions within narrow lanes.
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Important distinction between 1 in million rare complication vs extremely rare condition. If you have a heart surgery rare complication, you want the surgeon who does 10 a day. But if you get rare disease documented once in 1876, you want a Dr. House. If one exists.

