A breast cancer surgeon had to “scrub out mid-surgery” to call a UnitedHealthcare representative because the insurance giant questioned whether the procedure she was in the middle of performing was really necessary.
Dr. Elisabeth Potter posted her story to Instagram this week, and the post has gotten more than 221,000 likes.
Still wearing her scrub cap, Dr. Potter began her video saying, “It’s 2025, and navigating insurance has somehow just gotten worse.”
Yeah, you got it. There are a rare few that aren’t total douchebags.
I’d love to hear more about the decent ones. Because my perception is so skewed to think every surgeon is an asshole. I had one of the dumbest conversations of my professional life with one if you’d like.
Typically, the really chill surgeons are younger.
So the ones who still have a connection to real people because they have massive debt?
There are a variety of reasons. Something related to the work, however, is the change in culture with residents and attendings.