Posted on 03/05/2024 2:30:05 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
he United States could save $67 billion each year in health care costs if every person used a primary care provider as their main source of care, according to one estimate. Yet 30% of Americans don't have a primary care doctor due to a shortage of providers, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects we'll be short as many as 124,000 physicians by 2034, more than a third of them primary care providers.
According to a recent survey from Athenahealth, 80% of physicians already report talent shortages within their practices.
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Does AI introduce the probes? Insist on the clot shot? Will my second opinion be AI? Will AI’s degree be from Harvard? Not too much can go wrong there.
With that being said, my nephew is a thoracic surgeon and here's the route he had to take to become one:
Four years college
Four years medical school
Five years general surgery training
Two year fellowship in thoracic surgery before he finally was hired by a local hospital chain.
That's 15 years of schooling.....
Best solution: Getting government the hell outta healthcare and allowing med schools to teach as many students as the market will bear.
But this isn’t really about public health, is it.
The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment, from 1980 to 2005: What Were We Thinking?
Not what they claim, then or since.
Big deal, any AI cannot stop congress from overspending that amount in a few weeks, nor can AI build an electrified wall on the border to stop the invasion that is currently crushing the HC system, and in addition to do anything about the crushing debt of $3,000,000,000,000 added every year to the unsustainable federal debt and these things together will make our nation collapse before 10 ten years is up.
When the Obama Digital Records Act was passed, every doctor office in my town closed except one. They refused to pay the cost of digitizing their office when they only wanted to treat patients. We lost several good doctors.
Bkmk
Teach people to care for themselves for routine health issues and you can cut the healthcare demand by 90%. Most things, short of a broken leg, can be dealt with by just sucking it up.
I’m seeing a new primary care next month. My previous doctor kept looking for something to prescribe meds for so I fired her.
I need a PCP for one thing and that is to do blood work for my thyroid med and the Nexletol I’m taking. I can’t take statins and I refuse to try anymore. I don’t want them messing with anything else. NO vaccinations unless it’s a rabies shot, tetanus shot, or something that is really bad!
I also want to ask why I’m taking Nexletol when my high LDL has never caused a problem. I get my arteries scanned regularly on my own and NO plaque buildup has ever been found even though my LDL has been high since my 30’s when they first started checking it. It’s inherited and nobody in my family has died from it. My BP is good. My other blood work is good. I turn 70 this year with no major health issues. I guess doctors feel like they need to ‘fix’ that. 😕
Bring back brevity and paper charts.
The computer nerds now want to sell us more AI software to combat the ossification and inefficiency their other crappy EHR software caused?
No thanks.
It's just like the Pharma companies want to sell you a new drug (Ingrezza) to combat the side effect (tardive dyskinesia) their old drugs cause !!??
No thanks, dweebs. Go off and play with yourselves.
The Biden/Hamas administration will fix this problem by awarding every illegal alien an MD degree.
That said, it's understandable that some people are afraid of new technologies. They are scary and AI is at the head of the list.
Ease up on the need for health care just:
Stop over feeding the low informationeers segments-who use up the free health care so freeeely and do with be given free rides and (give back)? benefits.
Something about a zip code???
And let some local talent back in the medical field.
It’s too much foreign and even more underling overling? affirmative staffing setters.
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