I see someone has been watching "Royal Pains" on USA network...
ABOUT ROYAL PAINS
USA Network is proud to introduce the
Hamptons' newest doctor-on-demand,
Hank Lawson (
Mark Feuerstein), in
Royal Pains.
Hank is a rising star in the
New York City medical community, until he loses everything fighting for the life of a patient. With his career stalled and his personal life in shambles, Hank is in need of a new beginning. That's where his younger brother
Evan (
Paulo Costanzo) steps in. Fed up with Hank's personal pity-party, he convinces Hank to join him on a last-minute trip to the Hamptons for
Memorial Day weekend. When the brothers crash a party at the home of a Hamptons billionaire and a guest falls critically ill, Hank saves the day. His dramatic medical rescue draws attention from the crowd, and soon Hank's phone starts ringing off the hook with patients demanding house calls.
Inadvertently, Hank has become the hot new "
concierge doctor" in town.
Though Hank is initially reluctant to embrace this new career, with encouragement from Evan and an ambitious young woman who volunteers to be his physician assistant he decides to stay in town for the summer. Once again solving medical crises and helping those in need, Hank is back to doing what he does best. And now he's reinvented himself as the Hamptons' hottest new doctor-in-demand.
Also starring
Reshma Shetty and
Jill Flint with
Christine Ebersole and
Campbell Scott.
Medicare cuts are again looming (up to 30% reduction in doctor’s fees), paperwork and claim submission is costly, and regulatory risk and audits are very dangerous. Physicians will drop out and although we never know exactly how these things will play out, the exodus from Medicare and Medicaid could go from a trickle to a stampede.
It is not clear whether the Left intends to rapidly implode the medical system creating a crisis necessitating “decisive’ action, or more likely, they will keep the system afloat until the election. It does appear that the Leftists want to drastically increase non-physician care.