Posted on 03/09/2023 9:14:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Romneycare and Obamacare effect.
Mask and vaccine mandates in hospitals.
Both of my doctors quit last year.
Spoken like gender studies graduate that works in HR.
I don’t know what it’s like in MA, but the doctors I talk to are fed up with corporate medicine.
> It also calls for a new focus on equity and eliminating sexism and racism in the workplace. <
Medicare payments to physicians are not keeping up with inflation. I suspect that the same is true with private insurance payments. Then you have the silly trash such as noted above.
Everything is falling apart in this country. And if you dig down even a little, you’ll see that it’s all due to “progressive” Democrat policies.
instead, party hardy in college and take education courses and then have half the year off, a no fire policy, and work short days without worrying over life and death decisions and make 6 figures....
I don't blame drs.....
let that 4th grade social studies teacher intubate somebody in ICU or perform a heart transplant....
That was not going on in 2019.
And they plan to do what? Flip burgers at Rotten Ronnies?
If you’ve spent 8 or 10 years of your life becoming a Doctor, you pretty much only have one thing that you’re any good at... That’s being a Doctor.
Dont worry,
After equity changes, people not qualified to be doctors, will be doing just that and murdering people. But we will have more minority and perverts with Dr credentials.
And patients who now demand things that are questionable or unreasonable while abusing us.
When women enter what was a traditional men’s field they do not work at the same levels or for the same duration as men.
Generally.
Odd..
The mass mds I know say it is the crushing state diktats, interference and overwhelming insurance nightmare.
They largely feel they are not able to be doctors, but are de facto state employees ruled over by the insurance companies. And that is why they are getting out.
That should take care of it. /s
The system is near collapse. And it’s not just Massachusetts, not by any means.
They might as well leave; they’ve been proven to be useless over the last three years, and have caused more harm than help.
Here’s my message to the younglings: There will always be doctors. There will always be nurses. There will always be hospitals.
The wellness officers, the compliance officers, the coders, the AI-billing software, the prescription benefit managers, the assistant Vice Presidents for equity, the “care managers”, the value line administrators, the Medicare Advantage Plan directors and a dozen others I need a second cup of coffee to remember - the storm is coming, and when it’s over, all of THAT will look very different.
“After equity changes, people not qualified to be doctors, will be doing just that and murdering people.”
That’s not new. In 2007, my mom’s AA physician came close to killing her.
I didn’t realize just how bad things were until my sister was hospitalized in January with Flu/pneumonia. She had to be put on a vent for several weeks, then for two weeks they could not dial back the sedative because her heart rate and BP skyrocketed - when I visited I saw she was in obvious pain during PT and suggested to my BIL they give her pain meds. They started them the next day and within 24 hours she was able to be tapered off the sedative and was placed on a trach. She is off the trach now, just in rehab.
I kept suggesting my BIL stay on top of her care but at first he said he trusted the nurses/docs because they took such good care of her (same hospital) years ago when she had a stroke. I told him it is not the same now. Now he keeps seeing mistakes and poor care and now he is watching like a hawk. He has to leave work nearly every day to address some issue there.
She has been in two step down facilities since and it keeps getting bad to worse. She has been left in her wheelchair for as much as 5 hours, she has not had her diaper changed for hours, they failed twice to secure her transport to her orthopedist because she has a torn rotator cuff and it is really hindering her PT. She has had to wait all day for pain meds. She has had several medication errors and just missing meds (some are which are critical, she has a blood clotting disorder). She is in a room that is probably 15x15’ with two other patients. There is not enough room for a person to visit and sit in a chair. She has COPD and it was pulling teeth to get the doc to order O2 even though she has a prescription from her pulmonary specialist she sees regularly.
I’ve never seen anything like it. I know when my FIL had surgery in Jan 2022, my husband had to stay at the hospital 24/7 for 12 days because there was no one to make sure my FIL was eating and he couldn’t communicate anything due to dementia.
I could go on and on. Fortunately, she is lucid and can call and text me and her husband anytime, the nurse manager gave her number as well. She wants to go home, she could go home, she has the resources for equipment and caregivers, and home PT and I have it all lined up. The problem now is my BIL keeps talking her out of it because he is intimidated by her care (a story for another day).
On the flip side, we found my FIL’s hospice care and caregiving agencies to be amazing (they were here for a year). Most of the docs, RNs, and CNAs in those agencies had left the hospital setting after Covid.
That is true too.
Generally is the qualifier.
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