Soon it will be self-server ER. Who needs doctors.
More falsely-named “Government Healthcare”, accurately named “Death Protocol Nightmare”.
Every profession I can think of, including the medical profession, has business aspects. Problems arise when the business aspects take precedence over the profession part.
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“safe and effective”...
And, in comes foreign doctors. Here in my city, you hear a lot of Muslims last name doctors. A lot of Mohammed’s etc. as doctors. The aging population with health problems down the road will not have the privilege of good medical coverage our great country used to offer. When we no longer have an abundance of doctors for specialty care, the government will open euthanasia rooms for the elderly. It’s sad to say our powerful blessed by God medical establishment here in the United States has disintegrated like our military might because of their woke policies , greed and affirmative action … everything liberalism, which is a cancer, touches it disintegrates into ashes. We are living in very serious dire straits.😢
The AMA pushed BS since the late ‘60s that caused this.
They used fishy statistics to say that there would be a MD surplus if more med schools were built or expanded in the mid-70s.
Utter, complete BS that was nothing more then paycheck protection.
So now we have something like 25% of the MD population being foreign, usually from India. H1B docs for Chrissakes.
Any medical school will tell you they don’t know what it is that gets somebody in. They have thousands of applicants who actually qualify intellectually. So they have to sort through and look for “something special” or some government mandated discrimination they can apply to decide who gets in.
Try a supply side solution now. Just expand the med schools by ~ 30% and voila, lotsa docs. All home grown, and all qualified. Maybe they make less then some of the older crocodiles counting their millions. So what. It’s a job, and one that will pay well. No flakes from the Punjab needed.
And AI based triage? LPNs / PAs doing screening? Groovy. That’s the way to increase throughput before you see The Big Guy / Girl with the real MD. Make med care available to all, fast. And reasonable, maybe not cheap.
A supply side solution. Lop off some of the mega cash that Bitch and Biden are sending to their Ookrainian butt buddies and that will be more then enough.
It’s like that (older) ad, where the guy is on the phone w/a doc, telling him where to make the incision.
They didn’t realize how prophetic their ad was....teledoc ER treatment.
That's the problem. Get those mongrels out of the US and all else will be fixed.
“midlevel practitioners”
Mideveil practitioners
Social workers are working split shifts as counselors to raging maniacs threatening to slash their families with a blade in places where defunded police officers are no longer called to crimes.*
Now they will use first aid manuals for campers to see what help they can give in emergency rooms.
They’ll be exhausted.
* In Ypsilanti, Michigan the major highway intersection was blocked by protesters a couple of years ago. They demanded (and got) a review board stricter than the old one because a
man held his family’s life at risk and two officers risked their to wrestle his weapon away. He sued and was supported by civil rights activists. They claimed the police didn’t sufficiently go through all of the “de-escalation” steps when they saw the man lunge at his family (declared mentally ill later).
Duh.. It’s called supply and demand.
We don’t produce enough MDs because we have morons from. K-12 and rotten schools that indoctrinate and not educate.
Obama care drives demand even higher and supply lower by colluding with all other 3rd party payers to squeeze reimbursement rates.
It’s a perfect storm and all we have to do is look at UK to see what happens when you entitle everyone to “free” medical care
Also for those who say it’s a private insurance co in this case, you have to realize government payers are the 2000lb gorilla in the room
-PJ
Military started doing this decades ago.
Rather than going to the ER and undergoing the fecklessness there, find a witch doctor and have them shake some sand and rattle some bones. Your chances to living or dying are about even.
The majority....the *large* majority...of people who visit ERs don’t have a problem that even remotely resembles an “emergency”.
Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are cheaper than doc and, for most maladies, are better and diagnosing and treating.
IMHO
HAHAHAHAHA! Stop, Jennifer, you're killing me. Perhaps literally.
Collapse is near.
Better be thinking about what comes next, because that decision is coming up fast.