I work in a hospital ER in southern NJ. Until Trump took office you’d think you were in Mexico half the time. No habla the English, no insurance, no nothing, treat me gringo. Now, thank God it’s not so bad. 25 years ago I worked in two other hospital ERs in the same area of NJ. It was NOTHING like it had been up till recently. It’ll change again however because Trump can’t be president for ever. What has changed however is something most Americans who don’t work in the health care field aren’t aware of and that is the staggering numbers of foreign doctors who work here. Fully 99% of the MDs in this hospital are all East Indian and Pakistani. Fully 95% of the nursing staff are all Filipino.
I blame the AMA for this problem. They intentionally limit the number of slots available for medical schools. In a sense it was a way to maintain a monopoly. Normally in a capitalist society supply and demand determine the allocation of resources. But it’s not limited to the medical field. In some states even hairdressers and beauticians are limited by onerous licensing procedure.
The local hospital chain likes to employ Asian quack “doctors”.Five years ago, I had got progressivly sicker over the course of three days. Chills, whole body ached like I had been hit by a baseball bat, yellow nasal discharge, my face hurt, I was miserable.
The quack took a two second look at my medical record and delivered his diagnosis, Cat allergies. I was dumbfounded. I then proceeded to cuss him out and demanded to see a competent doctor. He started to panic. No tests were done, no culture taken, to this day I have no idea what my malady was. I suspect a sinus infection.
I told the doctor to prescribe me some sort of anti biotics, (yeah, yeah, I know, but I figured it was a start). Bingo, immediate relief that day, two days later was good as new.
A few days later, the hospital sent an e-mail asking how my visit went. I wrote a three page rant warning them that the quack was going to misdiagnose someone and cause a needless death. No follow up from the hospital chain. That was my last visit until I injured my foot about six months ago. Hospitals are great if you’re bleeding from a wound, other than that, I avoid them.
Fwiw, I had had a sinus infection about five years prior to that. The doctors remedy, (after anti biotics to quell the infection), wanted me to take Nasonex and some other dope, I forget the name of, ( That crap was some sort of speed. Took a dose of it and stayed up all night staring at the ceiling) Doc said, “ It’s strong stuff”. This was a supposed ENT “specialist”.
I stick with using a Neti pot. No dope, no needless prescription, no experimentation by quack doctors. /rant