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Doctor Shortage Could Cause Health Care Crash
ABC News ^
| November 13, 2012
| Nisha Nathan
Posted on 11/15/2012 12:55:40 AM PST by CutePuppy
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To: Kozak
Medical schools? What medical schools?
Any of our illustrious investigative reporters check on enrollment lately?
No. The only few working today are stretched thin following Benghazi.
No one in their right mind would sign up for this.
100K per year to come out and deal with this at about 150K per year under Obamacare?
No takers.
We will have no doctors and no research and our pharmacuticals will be outdated
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posted on
11/15/2012 4:45:28 AM PST
by
stanne
To: CutePuppy
Gee! No foolin’? One of the doctors in my town has already announced his early retirement.
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posted on
11/15/2012 4:50:16 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: SoftballMominVA
“Im wondering if we will see a push to use nurse practioners in an expanded role.”
Of course, and it will go much further than that. We'll get to the point at which you'll be seeing people with 1 or 2 year degrees ‘treating’ patients. Then the media will spout ‘studies’ about how the treatment people are getting is actually as good or better than from physicians. You can bet, however, that politicians will still be seeing MDs.
To: Fresh Wind
“Doctors will be replaced by computers. You enter your symptoms and the computer spits out a prescription.”
Way too much biological variability and way too many holes in what we understand to be able to approach medical care with a computer algorithm. Computers can be very helpful, but ultimately, it’s really a ‘fuzzy’ logic based discipline. That doesn’t mean they won’t try, but people will get hurt.
To: MayflowerMadam
They will do like they did to the active duty military a few years back when most of the base hospitals went to a daytime, no emergency room operation.
We all received a really thick medical book that listed all the illnesses. You basically had to self diagnose yourself.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:28:26 AM PST
by
USAF80
To: taildragger
Or they will be staffed by foreigners like all the hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
The VA hospitals are like that now. Lots of Russian physicians that can barely speak English.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:32:42 AM PST
by
USAF80
To: Kozak
This ER doctor is looking at international opportunities... I'm going to guess that tourist locations may be interested in US-trained doctors to take care of their visitors, and may provide life-style amenities in an effort to attract such.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:35:50 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
To: Arthur McGowan
Wake up Americans over 60!
Aches and pains, moans and groans, taxation without representation and NOW having to watch the house salad who won reelection for the next four years?
I will prefer to close my eyes and drift away.
The Golden Years are a myth.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:35:50 AM PST
by
urbanpovertylawcenter
(where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
To: USAF80
“Good! It’s about time Americans had to live like the rest of the world!”
— 0bama’s thoughts on this
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:38:31 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: PapaBear3625
"I'm going to guess that tourist locations may be interested in US-trained doctors to take care of their visitors, and may provide life-style amenities in an effort to attract such."
It also looks like so called Medical Tourism is a growth industry in countries such as India, Costa Rica, Panama, etc. If you can schedule your procedure and travel, you can go to one of these countries and get first world treatment at second world prices.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:39:26 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: SoftballMominVA
Of course. CA already wants abortions to be done by physicians' assistants, nurse-practitioners, midwives, dentists, veterinarians and taxidermists.
This is progress.
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:52:33 AM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
To: Truth29
Thailand has good medical care. You can get a policy for around $300 per year (2006) that covers just about everything. The b!tch is the long flight there.
52
posted on
11/15/2012 5:53:32 AM PST
by
USAF80
To: Kozak
This hospitalist is looking at exit strategies
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posted on
11/15/2012 5:58:46 AM PST
by
Mom MD
(T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
To: Mom MD
This doctor retired early earlier this year. F’em.
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posted on
11/15/2012 6:00:13 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Jack Hammer
I’m not spending the last 10 years of my career working for the post office!
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posted on
11/15/2012 6:01:31 AM PST
by
Mom MD
(T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
To: USAF80
does the thailand health plan cover siamese twins? (duckn & runnn)
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posted on
11/15/2012 6:03:58 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
To: Kozak
I heard Howard “the Scream” Dean admit just that with my own ears. (Baltimore MD March 2011.) Obamacare will collapse the current healthcare system, resulting in single payer government run socialized medicine.
To: CutePuppy
part of the porblem can be solved by a high tech medical school program. Most med schools have restricted enrollment...why? Grow the average class from 1200 to 3000 and you solve the problem of retired doctors. Make more studies online and cheaper and you have a solution to the people that don't want 300,000 debt to be a an MD.
Next make medicine effiecent - fewer tests because of fewer lawsuit and make software reduce test not add them.
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posted on
11/15/2012 6:19:43 AM PST
by
q_an_a
(the more laws the less justice)
To: Kozak
Gonna have to be honorary Doctors because medical schools cant crank em out that fast...
Isn't Affirmative Action in medical school an honorary doctorate?
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posted on
11/15/2012 7:49:20 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
To: CutePuppy
I know two doctors the day after the election that quit their practices. ObamaCare forces every doctor to participate at the level of Medicare or worse.
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posted on
11/15/2012 8:06:26 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Padme: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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