Leah B. Gilliam, MD

Leah B. Gilliam, MD

@drgruralmd.bsky.social

Family doc. Farm wife. Mama. Mostly complaining about the stupidity of our healthcare system. She/her #medsky

6,116 Followers 716 Following 3,103 Posts Joined Jun 2023
2 hours ago

There is no need to EVER comment on anyone’s reproductive choices. I’m sorry it happened to you.

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2 hours ago

I was dealing with infertility when my mom said “you don’t need to have kids.” She didn’t know. I hadn’t told her. She thought I wanted to be childless and was trying to support that. I didn’t. I just didn’t want the pressure of people always checking in to see how it was going. It crushed me.

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15 hours ago

Idk. And i understand why smaller physician practices sometimes do this, but if you’re going to do it, you HAVE to make sure you bill first and that money will actually be owed to you. I had to put it on a credit card. I don’t have that kind of cash sitting around.

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15 hours ago

When the hospital that made you pay thousands of $$$$ up front before your brain surgery, then didn’t bill first for their services (meaning that you owed the surgeon that money, not them) and wouldn’t refund that money for six weeks sends you a letter requesting a donation…

… it’s gonna be a no.

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1 day ago

Macrobid for everyone! Jk. We don’t treat ASB around here.

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4 days ago

Many*

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4 days ago

This is exactly how so may men think.

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4 days ago

No. Diet Pepsi is not ok.

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5 days ago

Medical school. Residency is graduate medical education.

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5 days ago
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I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

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6 days ago

Idk what the moon is doing but imma need it to stop. I need a break from the madness.

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1 week ago

If he can speak to those people, he stands a chance in Texas.

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1 week ago

I get it, but that plays very well in Texas. I don’t think from anything I’ve seen he’s one to hold those of other faiths or none as less than. I feel like he’s often speaking to religious people to show them specifically that the things that are happening aren’t compatible with Christian values.

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1 week ago

My heart hurts for Jasmine Crockett. She’s an amazing woman who would have done an incredible job.

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1 week ago

I blame DOGE.

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1 week ago

That’s a crime against humanity.

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1 week ago

My family calls these taco beds, thanks to my nieces. They are life.

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1 week ago

A Korean po boy is the product of a country I’m proud to be from. That’s America. Not this crap our government is doing.

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1 week ago
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I have an absurd number of pets. One dog. Two cats. Fifteen chickens. Four goldfish. One horse. Cows. I don’t know how many. Some aren’t pets. At least two are.

Anyway. Meet Speedy. She’s new. She has a snail friend. I think my kid has named that one Snaily. Also added a cory to the new 55G tank.

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1 week ago
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There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

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1 week ago

Without. I can’t think of another time that I’ve been able to just sit without feeling like I should get up and do something else. I had to sit. Sitting was the most important thing at that moment so I was free to enjoy it.

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1 week ago

Ours too. Occasionally they’d get the ones that were hexagon-shaped. That was always a good day.

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1 week ago

Again I say, if I were a bird, I would be a wren.

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1 week ago

What does it say about my life that getting my teeth cleaned this morning has been one of the most relaxed moments of the last month?

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2 weeks ago

I didn’t get the impression that they were making light of it, just that it was a huge case. They were already aware and they’d add my report to the running tally. Less of a case to crack. They already knew a lot about this one.

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2 weeks ago

Oh I don’t doubt that at all.

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2 weeks ago

When I called to report it, the folks at Medicare weren’t surprised. They immediately told me they were aware of the company and that it wasn’t anything I needed to be concerned about personally beyond filing the report.

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2 weeks ago

I live in a red state but the company that’s been billing these claims is based in Colorado. That may be the game. Idk.

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2 weeks ago

There actually have been huge issues with DME fraud lately. I’ve had a half dozen people who were never my patients get EOBs from a DME company for urinary catheters I didn’t order. Medicare had been successfully billed in each case to the tune of $12k. I wonder if that’s the motivation?

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2 weeks ago

He’s gonna lie. They’re gonna clap. It’s just going to make me angry.

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