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Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by trhway »

karl11 wrote: post #61

Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low

There is significant amount of doctors providing mediocre quality services in US (and given the developments like the rise of AI there will be even more of it). What does economics suggest you're to do with mass amounts of cheap low quality goods? Fastfood it. McDonalds for medical services. If that is what One Medical really does, then we have another Uber/AirBnb/etc.

>If you actually want good medical care, over your lifetime, your best bet is to build a strong relationship with a good doctor. If you also want to never wait, concierge medicine is where you ultimately need to be (doctor is trading off a higher volume of patients for a fee to a small number of patients).

Yes, good restaurant with star chief and great ambience where you're a valuable regular ...

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Post by peteretep »

ztratar wrote: post #21

Losing money per quarter like other tech companies, but I could see a bunch of knobs they can turn to make the unit economics profitable. Curious how this will all play out.

Guessing it'll be a phenomenal avenue for selling insurance or further medical services.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by meddlepal »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #70
dbcurtis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…

I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?

Thanks for asking this question... I was just about to ask this and then I got distracted before coming back. As an engineer I have no idea how to actually qualify whether my doctor is good or not. I _like_ my doctor, he's a personable enough guy, and perhaps I trust him because he hasn't harmed me yet, but I also have no idea if he is any good.

The worst graduate in a medical class is still a Doctor somewhere...

This is probably the same feeling business guys have about engineers...

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by [deleted] »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #70
dbcurtis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…

I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?

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Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by damnyou »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #70
dbcurtis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…

I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?

The most important thing to me is an understanding that the patient is in charge of their health and the doctor's just there to support the patient. For example, if a patient is already on meds from an online pharmacy, the doctor (after ensuring that the patient isnt causing grave harm to themselves) should be willing to write a prescription for those meds.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by damnyou »

karl11 wrote: post #61

Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…

I have serious medical needs and have built long-term relationships with a couple specific doctors at One Medical. Works very well for me — I see my doctors for specialist-y things and a random doctor if it's more urgent.

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Post by closeparen »

stevebmark wrote: post #56

Was anyone who works at One Medical actually told about this? lol

Announcements about IPOs are regulated; employees may have a general sense that an IPO is impending but generally get confirmation at the same time as the public.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by muststopmyths »

cgb223 wrote: post #10

Why do people use One Medical vs just having a doctor? Been thinking about my current medical care and wondering the advantages

For minor issues it can take weeks to get an appointment from a single doctor. One Medical solves that problem.

I use my PPO plan to get a specialist directly if I need one (usually sports medicine/getting too old for this shit).

If I had chronic/serious health issues I might seek out a regular PCP and use One Medical for the routine stuff (physicals, vaccines, cough/cold/flu etc.) Depends on if you have PPO or HMO plans of course.

Their raising fees every other year is beginning to stick in my craw though.

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Post by jhj »

karl11 wrote: post #61

Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…

I've used One Medical in NYC for the past two years but I'll probably drop them the next year.

The primary care checkups were nowhere near as thorough as ones I've had with one-off doctors. The only benefit that I value that they provide to me is the ability to schedule appointments online, but I frequently find that it is more and more rare to find an open slot the day of (or I have to travel way further across town than I would like, with degree of urgency affecting how eager I am to do this), and many practitioners seem booked 1-3 weeks into the future. With such full scheduling, sometimes I just end up going to a local chain of urgent care clinics instead and usually see someone within 30 minutes or so.

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Post by dmode »

blaisio wrote: post #60
cgb223 wrote: post #10

Why do people use One Medical vs just having a doctor? Been thinking about my current medical care and wondering the advantages

Major advantages: - integrated online doctor visits, so you often don't need to go in - you can message someone with any health question and get a response within 24 hours - you can go to any location and they automatically pull up your full medical history, no need to fill out a form - it is easy to get an appointment the same week or same day if you need it - you can come any time without an appointment for lab wor…

Honestly, this sounds like Kaiser. I guess One Medical is an HMO experience on top of your PPO plan
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