> But with medical fecal transplants there's very little ick factor.
I find the ick factor thing absurd. Again, Which is more likely?
1. An MD, who has been through anatomy lab which cuts off every part of the human body (ever cut off someone's face? Turns out that it is fascinating...), working long hours smelling formaldehyde over a dead body, and realizes that it's been a long time since the last meal so would like to step out for a bite to eat, thinks a fecal transplant is icky or
Except since this isn't a standard procedure, they can charge whatever they please for the testing and prep - why do you think a doctor won't make money with fecal transplants? You seem to be asserting this with absolutely no evidence.
> Except since this isn't a standard procedure, they can charge whatever they please for the testing and prep - why do you think a doctor won't make money with fecal transplants?
Is he allowed to, either by law or his malpractice insurance?
There are hospitals doing fecal transplant procedures, especially for difficult cases of C. difficile that aren't responding well to drugs like Vancomycin. Though some FDA rulings are making that complicated recently as it's gaining popularity.
I've talked to a number of doctors who do it, and while "It's hard to bill insurance for something like this" comes up, much more common issues are the patients being like "You want to do what?", that there's no real standard delivery mechanism, and that it's fairly lab intensive.
I find the ick factor thing absurd. Again, Which is more likely?
1. An MD, who has been through anatomy lab which cuts off every part of the human body (ever cut off someone's face? Turns out that it is fascinating...), working long hours smelling formaldehyde over a dead body, and realizes that it's been a long time since the last meal so would like to step out for a bite to eat, thinks a fecal transplant is icky or
2. S/He won't make money.
I'm gonna go with Occam on this one.