Then retire already.
Doctors treat symptoms.
Healthcare success is in prevention.
Doctors are inept at prevention, because prevention is largely behavioral. Doctors, like the general public also, are poor at understanding behavior.
Which is why Doctors take the easy path of pill pushers.
Redirect Medicare towards prevention and let the ol’ Docs retire.
Yep. Doctors are critical for health care preventive services.
You need doctors to tell you to maintain a good body weight and not to eat too much.
You need doctors to tell you to get some exercise.
You need doctors to tell you to get a good night’s sleep.
You need doctors to tell you to dial back on the “substances”.
Of course, you need doctors to inquire about firearm ownership and usage, don’t you?
Evidently many of you need doctors to tell you how to wipe your ass after a bowel movement and how many sheet of toilet paper you need for the job.
Or you could get your granny to tell you the some thing. It would be a lot cheaper.
A lot of disease is a result of obesity. The only way Medicare could pay for prevention is to wire patients mouth shut. That would work.
ok. When you are in the ER with chest pains a lecture on how to prevent heart disease will go a long way.
There’s no money in prevention.
Big Pharma wants you to eat unhealthy, to get you hooked on their products.