Still... I am hoping for a good “country doctor”. I should be able to trust a professional with experience in the medical field, someone that isn’t worried because I am going to go and sue them. Very often I have been told that I have great intuition and a keen ability to notice the slightest change and that I should have been a doctor.
Right now I wonder what if I had gone to school to be a medical doctor instead of a professional engineer. Would there be a need for an old-school doctor? I know that the trend has been that everyone becomes a specialist... Is there not a need for a general practitioner anymore? I think there is, and I would gladly pay out of my own pocket for those services and tell the insurance companies and the government to stick it.
I would gladly pay out of my own pocket for those services and tell the insurance companies and the government to stick it.
Unfortunately, you are in the minority and few doctors can stay in business based on private pay = except those who cater to the wealthy only, and what does that leave for the rest? We have been conditioned to believe that medicine should be a “right” paid for by someone else... though food and shelter are not argueably less important we haven’t traditionally expected someone else to pay for our food or housing...but sadly for so many that philosophy is changing!
To answer your question, there is a great need for the traditional “country doctor”.. but the financial reality is at variance with the need. We are dumbing down health care by allowing lessor trained individuals to provide some level of care and will pay a price for this eventually, in lives, and morbidity.
I do not know, nor treat any engineers who would not have made excellent clinicians...analytical thinking is analytical thinking regardless the discipline!