Posted on 11/15/2012 8:43:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“We will probably need doctors a lot sooner than 2025. There’s just this little notion that we may be losing many of the doctors we have right now.”
Perhaps we will follow the British model and avert the shortage by replacing them with 26 year old middle eastern “surgeons” like the ones who bombed Glasgow International Airport in 2007.
Not to worry. They will death panel the elderly and dumb down the doctor requirements.
Well it beats the Gulag.
Only an idiot would go into any primary care area. The only happy docs I know are specialists who can control their practice. ophthalmologists , plastic surgeons, hand surgeons, radiologists.
We are inventing all kinds of doctor replacements — nurse practitioners, for example (sorry NPs). Pretty soon, anyone will be able to practice medicine as “doctors”.
White Guy doctor here. I could work 24 hours per day every day of the week and I wouldn’t put a dent in the number of patients who want to see me. We are in for a very RUDE AWAKENING. And, yes, get ready for your serious medical conditions to be addressed by a salaried physician assistant or nurse practitioner. Maybe Dr. Muhammed will come in and take a look. Worse care, less frequently (as appointments will be rarer than gold), with fewer phone calls returned. Obama, Pelosi and Reid have destroyed our future.
Good luck finding a doctor that accepts new Medicare patients!
Blame the doctors is part of the dim playbook for when kenyancare fails. The marxists need enemies for the push to single payer.
This is what I alluded to above...we’ll have NPs and PAs doing surgery and everything. Good grief.
Exactamundo
A doctor just out of college is sad since the only real effective doctor takes years of actual experience treating patients. Pills from a computer model will be the new doctor.
Why go to medical school? If you don’t need identification to vote why do you need any to “practice” medicine? ;-)
Many doctors will just retire or cut back on hours. Know 2 retiring and a 3rd that is cutting hours. “Why work if I can’t keep the money I make? I’ll cover my expenses and make what I need then shut the doors and wait out this four years.”
Sadly, don’t think it’ll be better after Obama is out. Permanent damage and with the vote theft at the polls and vote buying via taxdollars away from the polls, unlikely a Republican will ever win national office again.
Have you ever noticed that whatever they officially name a bill, it always does the opposite. It is if it is by design. lol
Word of warning from experience: Look to your own health! Do not rely on the "healthcare" business (and yes, it is a business) to do anything but put you in a corral to lay insurance egg-payments for them...
the new slavery? These guys also bury their mistakes...
This white guy doc agrees with all you say.
Plus, what others do not think about, is the young folks who come out of med school anywhere from 200-500k already in debt, and then come into a system that doesn’t want to pay them.
Who in their right mind would want to do that? A young person wanting to be a doc in modern American must approach it with missionary zeal, because that’s what it’s similar to.
Every doc I know who has kids interested in health care are trying to get them in DENTAL school, which has so far (but not for long) appeared to escape the brunt of Obamacare.
It’s a mess for which their is only one solution - a 2 tiered system, and the Obamaphiles ain’t gonna like that.
I don’t know. Engineering school is making me crazy...I might welcome death.
As if they care. The nomenklatura will always receive the best care from the best doctors and the best hospitals. As for everyone else, well, sorry comrade.
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