NEWS Beloved Mendocino County Physician in Critical Care After Car Crash Suffering Major Injuries- Consider Donating to His GoFundMe

Dr. Paul Carty-SorianoAdventist Health Physician Dr. Paul Carty-Soriano is in critical condition after a single-vehicle car crash left him pinned under his vehicle suffering severe injuries on June 1. Adventist Health’s Practice Manager Angela Torres told us he is in an intensive care unit at an out-of-area hospital with family by his side and it will be several days for any really decent info “because of how bad the accident was.”

A GoFundMe has been established to support Carty-Soriano and his family during the this troubling time.

In the spirit of providing as much support as possible to Carty-Soriano and his family, Torres said she has been spreading work “to all the places and schools he’s been part of, such as the VA hospital in Sacramento, UC Davis, UCSF where he went to medical school, and SF General where he has many friends.

Torres asks the community to “Please keep Paul and his family in your prayers.”

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Dr Flat
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Dr Flat
2 years ago

Consider supporting MEDICARE4ALL so NO ONE needs to use gofundme for medical expenses ever again

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Dr Flat

Medicare4all will never exist. Medicare for old people is horrible enough as it is, and Medicare for everyone would soon collapse under overuse, incompetence, mismanagement and malfunctioning government hardware/software… It would be a historic mess, an operational catastrophe, and would be unutterably atrocious to use…

We hope Dr Soriano will recover quickly! Please help if you can! If you can’t give money, give blood, or volunteer at the hospital of your choice.

Bozo
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Bozo
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

“Medicare for old people is horrible enough as it is…”

Eh ? Are you on it ? Or are you just repeating Foz news ?

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Medicare for all, huh? People on medicare almost always have a supplemental insurance to cover the many things Medicare doesn’t pay. If you can find a doctor who accepts Medicare at all.

Then again many countries with nationalized health care offer things like a year long waiting list or take/leave it treatment. Then again they don’t have to spend as much money treating the people injured by crime or drugs as we do so maybe that’s not so bad.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Medicare is not free. It doesn’t pay the entire cost..
You can go broke while trying to maintain coverage.
It could well be on the road to reform, but for now, it works poorly and costs way too much.

Medicare is deeply flawed and is not getting any better. I hardly want to participate in it and I don’t wish it on anyone, much less everyone…

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

Unfortunately for not wanting to participate in it, it has some lovely little rules if doctors and hospitals want to charge more than Medicare wants to pay. Either they can still bill the patient no more than 15% above what Medicare pays but not bill directly and the patient must seek reimbursement from Medicare themselves or Medicare will not reimburse any patient of that provider at all for anything. It’s all or nothing which is how Medicare can impose any regulation it sees fit and cap what it will pay for virtually everyone. Thus medical services end up not being what people necessarily need. Only what Medicare is willing to cover. You may need to get tests or service that are not functional but allow providers to bill more.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Yes. A,B,D and E. Costs a lot, there’s no doctors, service is awful, and 80 million retired and retiring Baby Boomers are pissed…

Medicare4all will never exist, and, you wouldn’t believe how bad it would be!

Good luck!

OH and thanks for the chart! Americans are pretty unhealthy before they get old, with the drinking and the drug-dependency… Best thing to do is avoid medical care at all costs, eat very little, don’t drink or smoke or take drugs, either that or live it up and die young…

If you need a doctor, take a number and good luck! If you are old, all your money is supposed to be spent for insurance and medical bills.

Smart people will stay poor and get on Medicaid. Or get real rich and keep a physician on retainer. Or get the heck out to another country where drugs are sold over-the-counter and there are lots of Doctors…

Pray for Adventist Health (they need it) and for Dr Soriano, and, always drive safely, for a change.

No good answer
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No good answer
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

I say start with providing free education to those who want to be doctors, then limit what they can charge. Doctors wouldn’t have to pay back all their student debt. Limit the profit in medical devices. My dad had back surgery, and we checked out the enormous bill that Kaiser paid. The surgeon was getting $9,000 an hour!

ThinkThenAct
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ThinkThenAct
2 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Thanks BOZO. I’m tempted to say FUX News, but I won’t. I’d be dead if it weren’t for Medicare.

onlooker
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onlooker
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

Medicare plus the supplemental coverage is why my husband is alive. It’s the same story for millions of people. Medicare for All would radically change our society for the better.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

Thanks for your share.

I disagree. Medicare for all is a poorly conceived idea, which will never exist.

Doctors want to make money, which is why the “Opioid Crisis” occurred.

Without the constant River of cash flowing to physicians, drug makers, lawyers and crooked legislators and government officials, the entire medical system would crumble…

Medicare, as it is, consists of huge insurance companies and corporate interests. The system floats in an ocean of money, and, even if there was Medicare4all, the economy would collapse without that ocean…

Do some research, and, we are glad your partner is doing well…

Bozo
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Bozo
2 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

Most of you people don’t answer the question.

ARE YOU ON MEDICARE ???

I am. And it works well…. mind you not perfect… but pretty damm good compared to… nothing.

Go look at the graph. It shows most of the ‘industrialized world’. Black countries up at the top.
They have increased life expectancy… and about 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of medical care in the USA.

Think about it. Something is very wrong with the USA.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

That is for sure! USA healthcare is miserable, horrible.

I’m on Medicare, and it is unintelligible, expensive, and there are no providers. Medicare does not pay the bill, and neither does your “supplement”…

Glad you are enjoying your “free” healthcare, but I can’t find a doctor where I live, the doctors won’t give out meds, and, the prescription coverage only pays for the cheapest generic drugs…

Medi-Cal looks better, to me, following a career of taking care of Seniors and pregnant women…

The patient in this story is a physician, who works for a large corporate healthcare company. He has an income, and presumably, decent commercial insurance! He needs a Go-Fund-Me?

I worked for Adventist Health twice. In 2011, the health insurance paid 100%, and it was free to you and your family. By 2017, they wanted $450/month for myself and spouse! The insurance they handed out paid about 70%, at that time…

No good answer
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No good answer
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

Insurance costs are huge and growing fast. Schools are spending all their money on rising insurance costs. Teachers have to fork over for a portion out of their meager earnings now to have coverage. At least you have a choice of Blue Cross or Blue Cross.

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

If you are on Medicare, it is not because you had any real choice. Even private insurance, except for rare groups of powerful people, requires that you sign up for Medicare or they will not pay under their policies. It’s Medicare or nothing. And most people can’t afford the nothing option because the people not under Medicare are those who get billed more to make up for what Medicare won’t pay.

gustav
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gustav
2 years ago

Is there a link somewhere for the gofundme?

Kym Kemp
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2 years ago
Reply to  gustav

My apology. I’ve fixed the broken link.

Johnny Eureka
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Johnny Eureka
2 years ago

If he dies will be listed as “cause of death – Covid.” That’s how Fauci rolls.

Frog
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Frog
2 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Wow, you’re a genius! Tell me more of your interesting insights!

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Looks like someone is fully saturated with Fox News. Good job. You’ve done exactly what they want you to do.

Skitty
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Skitty
2 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Thanks for the Trumplican perspective. Do you have any more Qanon/Oan news thoughts you care to share with all of us “sheeple” ?

Stillwantstoknow
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Stillwantstoknow
2 years ago

I was told he is in a coma. Whether it’s medically induced idk. But this info is from a reliable source and prayer was requested for him and his family. Life is fragile. We all have one appointment that is absolute and cannot be canceled. Postponed maybe, canceled no. Then there’s the SURPRISE!! appointments none of wants! It could be any one of us, any moment. But for the grace of God there go I. He obviously has a lot to offer the world and is loved by many. I was moved to pray for this family too. I heard a statistic years ago that most traffic accidents happen within 20 miles of home. Idk how much truth there is to that. If any at all. At this point.

DawnI
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DawnI
2 years ago

Wait – this guy works for Adventist Health system and needs a GoFundMe account to pay for this medical care?
That should tell any USA citizen more than they need to know about our current health care system.
So over it!

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  DawnI

Thanks for your share! I bet a few other people wondered this…

Homeless people get free medical care… Immigrants and farmworkers get the same…

Working people with insurance, just pay and pay, and, old people are expected to devote 30% of whatever income they have to healthcare costs and insurance…

The average net worth of a retired person in the US is less than $200,000! Average Social Security check: about $1650/month!

If you live past 65, you are pretty much screwed, and nobody is gonna donate to your Go-fund-me, either…

Shelby
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Shelby
2 years ago
Reply to  DawnI

He is a medical resident, so he gets paid minimum wage (yes really… they work 80h a week and that’s what it works out to).

Also, he will never work as a doctor again, his injuries are so bad. Not sure how long his insurance will last.

He will be in a wheelchair for life, as a quadrapeligic. Do you think insurance is going to build him an accessible house and pay his salary for the rest of his life?

Gofundme is a drop in the bucket. SERIOUSLY.

E
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E
2 years ago

❤️️

Mendocino Mamma
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Mendocino Mamma
2 years ago

Dawnl… absolutely correct 100% one of my family members was in a horrific car crash and in the hospital for several months before they ultimately passed away. Their bills were over $2000000 when it was all said and done.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago

Medical Care and Health insurance are legalized piracy, and, a Go-Fund-Me is a symptom of a terminal problem.

American youth doesn’t want to work in healthcare, and, Filipino Nurses keep the whole thing afloat by working cheap…

It is a sick system, and our geriatric President knows this, since he was instrumental in gutting social security, making SS payments taxable etc, back in the Reagan years…

Many changes need to occur, but mainly, we need a country where people work and pay taxes. No healthcare system will work when the population is growing weed to sell on the black market for cash!

We can’t all be internet billionaires, or even doctors working for Adventist Health…

Nobody can afford a catastrophic healthcare bill. If AH loves this guy so much, they should write off his bill, rather than embarrassing themselves by asking you and me to donate.

Adventist Health just wants money. They are not interested in taking care of you and me…

AND:

Corporate Healthcare will entertain us by whining about how much they have been losing!

https://www.abc10.com/article/money/business/sutter-health-layoffs-coronavirus-pandemic/103-b39d5089-e812-42b1-99ba-303e793cf332

I guess the CARES act money ran out!

Sutter Health is being sued for overcharging it’s patients in Northern California, and now, Sutter Health is terminating employees…

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

This patient is at SF General, and he is described as being a “Resident”. He may not have been covered by AH Insurance…

It’s a long road to recovery from his injuries, as described. We wish him well, and, he should be applying for Medi-Cal about now.

Auntie Ovine
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Auntie Ovine
2 years ago

Did they ever pay that bill?

robash141
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robash141
2 years ago

A doctor has to go begging for money on the internet to cover medical expenses after an accident. If this isn’t testament to the barbaric nature of our health care system, then I don’t know what is..

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  robash141

I doubt whether “medical expenses” are the real burden. They are almost certainly covered.
Things like travel, housing and food for relatives staying with the patient, child care because of absent parent, repeated followup expenses or even transportation to a hospital that is not the closest but provides better care is not reimbursed. The biggie will be loss of earnings. And that is true for countries with nationalized health care as much as here.

Robash141
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Robash141
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Those are “ medical expenses “ if there wasn’t a medical condition they wouldn’t have those expenses.. You sound like a fucking claims adjuster

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago

Have any of the Medicare for All believers ever wondered how the standard 5 minutes of attention visit with a doctor (if you even can get a doctor) came about? Well… “No one knows exactly why 15 minutes became the norm, but many experts trace the time crunch back to Medicare’s 1992 adoption of a byzantine formula that relies on “relative value units,” or RVUs, to calculate doctors’ fees.” https://khn.org/news/15-minute-doctor-visits/

Of course, that has not necessarily become shorter- in fact may have even become a couple of minutes longer. Not that it means more time with the doctor. Quite the contrary. With the advent of electronic medical records manadated by ACA, the doctor will hardly be listening to you for even five minutes. He will be interfacing with the computer. “I spend less time with patients, and more time filling out multiple boxes on forms that don’t fit the way I work. Often I am filling out the same information over and over again. A lot of it is checking boxes, rather than understanding what this patient really needs.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/04/25/why-is-your-doctor-typing-hint-think-agile/?sh=4eb6fd725210

And do you know what this doctor believes is the most valuable skill for a doctor? Typing.
https://33charts.com/keyboarding-doctors/

And the recommended improvement that the Medicare For All fantasizers envision? More government. Oh well, probably a wand that a doctor can wave at a patient for 20 seconds to get all the information he wants (the he’ll with what you need) will probably mandated next and no one will have to worry about doctors actually talking to their patients ever again.

robash141
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robash141
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Sounds like a bunch of flim- flammy bullshit..