No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage

New York Times ^ | Dec 4, 2013 | SCOTT GOTTLIEB and EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL

[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.

[Innovative]

If there will not be a doctor shortage, why do they need pharmacists to provide urgent care and "skilled health aides" (NON-licensed) "monitor" patients at home?!

Scott Gottlieb was just on Kelly file and mentioned he co-authored this article with Ezekiel Emanuel, one of Obama's advisors.

This article is total garbage -- can't imagine why Scott Gottlieb lent his name to this -- he should resign from The American Enterprize Institute.

[Nachum]

Uh... yes there will.

[Paladin2]

The answer is offshore catastrophic insurance combined with care from Dr. Mom and your favorite Vet.

[mylife]

Walmart clinic care is sure to follow.

[ClearCase_guy]

Translation: Unicorns will dispense magic skittles which cure all disease. Many miracles will occur. It will all be OK.

[Clarence]

LOL- “team care” = far less docs. Nice spin, NYT.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ezekiel J. Emanuel? The father of death panels? The evil-er brother of Rahm Emanuel? Hahahaha!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not a shortage of doctors, just a shortage of doctors who will accept Obamacare.

[Old Yeller]

Where does a feller go for an emergency appendectomy?

[martin_fierro]

EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL <-- Yeah, right. Rahm's bro.

[BenLurkin]

“The rise of nonphysician providers will enable more team care”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/chicken.wav

[mylife]

The Blue ones keep you from screaming.

[paint_your_wagon]

What if I don’t like my team? How do I go about getting a different team?

This is a really @$#%ed up idea.

[Olog-hai]

The rise of nonphysician providers will enable more team care …

LOL! That is a doctor shortage.

Rahm’s brother now into full-time propaganda writing. Wait until the dollars they get paid in become worthless.

[jonose]

>Where does a feller go for an emergency appendectomy?
amazon.com a drone will fly in a robot and a doc from India or Vietnam will do it remotely.

[wfu_deacons]

I work in health care and I can tell you doctors are being swamped with requirements to document every thing they do. We see oncology patients on a weekly basis and our doctors are having to document the same repetitive observations that have nothing to do with the treatment we are providing. Doctors are spending a lot of time typing information into the electronic records system and not seeing patients.

[Steely Tom]

Just like no one will lose a health plan they like.

And every family will be saving $2500 a year.

Sorry, Dr. Death. Why should anyone believe you now? Except the birdbrains at the New York Times.

Oh, and I don’t think they are birdbrains because I think they believe you; I know they know better.

I think they’re birdbrains because they think the public will believe you - or them - at this point.

[Amagi]

Hey look.
The co-author is Dr. Death Panel, the obnoxious Zeke-the-Freak Emanuel.
Now that's a reliable source.

[PistolPaknMama]

My own doc who is about ready to retire, and I have seen for almost 30 years, is not so optimistic.