Posted on 12/04/2013 6:40:09 PM PST by Innovative
The rise of nonphysician providers will enable more team care. Skilled health aides will monitor patients at home and alert a doctor if certain medical parameters decline. Nurses will provide wound care to diabetic patients, adjust medications like blood thinners and provide the initial management of chemotherapy side effects for cancer patients. Pharmacists will provide more counseling and urgent care. Physicians will remain essential to the proper diagnosis and treatment of disease, but will be backed up by teams who will help manage the more routine features of chronic illness.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
‘Skilled health aides, doctor, Nurses, Pharmacists.’
Interesting, in the above list, only one category is actually licensed to ‘practice’, medicine. Does this mean that they will start licensing people who have not qualified as a doctor to ‘practice’ medicine?
Death panels may not be needed after all.
Ppl will scream about this but does it really take 10 years of training and a million dollars of debt to be able to do simple sutures, diagnose simple illnesses like uncomplicated sinus or bladder infections, or identify situations that need a higher level of care?
Medical care could be made more “affordable” without bleeding everyone if there was an intermediate level of care that was consistently available. Think PA, RN, or even paramedic type, who could get someone more serious seen at a full doctor but take off the load of the most basic cases like sprains, uncomplicated common infections, and sports physicals.
The. Roman Empire of medicine is being dismantled and destroyed before our very eyes by madmen and women and millions will die because of it. How did this Zeke Immanuel with his ghoulish ideas rise to a place of power? Just observing his behavior in TV interviews is enough to give you nightmares.
There is -already- a doctor shortage. My last two doctors have quit practicing, and both of them were Indian immigrants. I had no problem with them other than I really would like to have a doctor who’s first language is English.
The Times doesn't believe the lie any more than Oulanem does. They're just working to keep everything on schedule so they can witness the glorious purge of the unfit in their lifetimes.
I can't wait for the Black Friday colonoscopy specials.
Like every single decision maker and profiteer in the Obamacare disaster he is politically connected. His brother Rahm was part of the Obama Administration.
Whew. I feel better already.
I guess the letter from my long time doc taking an early retirement because of Obamacare didn’t happen.
Total garbage. Nurses will be doing the work of doctors and there will be a decrease in liability for malpractice and there will be a lot of malpractice
Never mind how the entire dirst paragraph is competely incoherent with the headline
Given Zeke’s glaring lack of charm, skill, insight, or anything even remotely redeeming, his rise to power can only be explained by the concept of divine punishment.
The most wretched human beings this nation has ever produced are now in complete control of it. If that’s not God’s wrath, I don’t know what is.
This approach already exists, and is nothing new. It isn’t going to prevent physician shortages.
Who would go to med school now with the pressure to share their money/earnings and otherwise quit being so wealthy after spending and paying back loans hundreds. Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
No.
Ezekiel Emanuel?! Yeah, this article is TOTALLY believable right there...
Putz.
Third party payer is a disaster Medicaid & care, worse
If the free market had its way in medicine, it would be reasonable and affordable
Relatively
But Obama and his supporters ( who are not going away, they’ll just choose another god figure) would be focusing on some different ailing industry to extracyt multi trillions from
Physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners are not Doctors. But, They are the included in the New Normal as Primary Health Care Practitioners.
It is impossible that there will be a shortage of Doctors
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