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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A lot could be freed up if we would boot kick every last illegal back to where they came.
Deport ALL the illegals and we’d have plenty of food, water, housing, educational resources, and healthcare for American citizens.
True. O it never was. CMS is paying teaching universities extra for diverse students. If they want to keep that guaranteed cash, they have to keep diversity. CMS is the one mandating the covid and flu shots for employees of any institution receiving CMS Medicare funding.
Some women make a lot of noise about “safe abortions.”
But the liberal mendacity for such “logic,” has produced a nation of morally unqualified “medical professionals” who, in turn, are an inceasingly inept risk for millions of patients.
So-called “doctors” and such, who claim to be unable to discern between man and woman, male and female.
Leaving the “professionals” having to consult the Democrat Party in order to resolve your handwriting - using a magic marker - whereby you point (HOPEFULLY) to where your appendix is -OR- the left knee that is to be replaced.
In American medicine, babies come from portals.
Medical coding and EMRs also makes it far, far easier to screw with public health stats, don’t they.
And Deep State has been screwing with ICD 10 codes for a reason.
BTW, I never had errors in my paper records, and boy, mine made up a thick phone book.
But I have found and continue to find them in my EMRs.
Go figure.
I think that's why some organizations are using AI only on their own proprietary data, the integrity of which can be controlled.
AI doesn’t bug me. It’s just a tool.
The people using it...
Well, that’s a different story.
Many practices in PA supplement their MD staff with nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). These people essentially perform as an MD and act as PCPs. I imagine this saves the practice a consider amount of money. Is the practice of using (NPs) and (PAs) being seen in other parts of the country?
I would say it's the people 'programming' it as being the problem. There's an old IT axiom - "Garbage in, garbage out".
We recently saw Google's AI chatbot Gemini makes 'diverse' images of founding fathers. This was the result of the human programmer(s) and managers of that software injecting their personal bias. "Garbage in, garbage out".
Canadian AI doctors: you need to kill yourself.
Yep. I’m an old white guy. If my doctor handed me a new prescription based on AI, I would research it very carefully, not using “Google,” either. Odds are, it would be a suicide pill.
While my father was a family practice physician, my primary care practitioner by choice is a DNP. She has been my primary care practitioner for nearly 10 years and I trust her judgment. She has wisely referred me to specialists when warranted and has given me excellent care.
Statins is a sore subject with me. My wife is on them (and a whole host of other drugs) because she listens to the doctor rather than me. The evidence (independent studies and not the Pharma ran studies) shows yes it lowers LDLs but the wrong ones. It does very little beneficial but has serious side effects which I have witnessed. A friend of mine is going senile because of them. They admit “short term memory loss” is a side effect along with muscle soreness and loss of strength. 23% of your LDLs are in your brain. Guess what happens when the statins crosses the brain blood membrane into your brain. Yeah, you start getting foggy headed. And losing muscle strength and real tender in muscle regions.
Who wants a prostate exam or a Pap smear administered by a robot.
Skynet is going to be responsible for AI med care?
I have been taking the Nexletol for six months and have started having lower back, leg, and foot/ankle pain. When I see the new doctor next month, we are going to discuss this. Personally, I think the overload of meds doctors put older people on are the reason so many become frail and senile. The side effects from some of the meds make them feel so bad that they can’t exercise at all and become sedentary. I can feel it happening.
I’m inclined to tell him I want off of it and will keep having my scans instead. My grandmother lived to 95 because she refused all of the meds.
IMO, doctors have become predatory on older people. Right now I only have two prescription meds. I want off of the second one (Nexletol). My former doctor also wanted me to take infusions for osteoporosis in my right hip. I told her no so she called the oncologist and made the appointment for me. That’s why I fired her.
I’m developing an intense dislike and distrust of doctors, especially since Covid and the scam vax. I’m glad we didn’t take them.
I know. Bring in tens of millions of illegal aliens and give them free medical care. That’ll work....
As an aside. I tried to schedule a doctors appointment with the crap obamacare plans forced in my county. It was a three hour drive, one way, in July. And they had the audacity to ask if I want a morning or afternoon appointment. AND they reminded me if it was serious I could go to the emergency room. YAY Obamacare and illegal immigration.
yes they do, happend to me, was on a high dose of a statin 40 mgs, i lost my keys to my car, and lost my car at the store many times. asked the doc to please lower it a bit. but nope.
I moved to a new city got a new doc young indian guy. he listen to me and lowered the dose. no pains, nor memory loss.
I still believe there is very little value to them. Both types of cholesterol are essential for life. The LDLs the statin captures are the benign type and not the smaller particle one that embeds itself in the walls of the arteries. There was a study one time on Alzheimer and dementia patients where they took them off all meds completely during their study. During this time some of the dementia patients cognitive faculties recovered enough for them not to be labeled dementia. Good news, right?? Wrong. When the study was over they were turned back over to their regular docs who put them back on their drugs and they returned to their dementia state. Why? Because they were looking at something else chemistry wise in the study and they were not there to cure them but study and analyze blood samples and brain chems. Their regular docs do what regular docs do, put them on the prescribed medicine on the flow chart. Standard of care policies give you standard of care results. The US is not in the top 50 of healthcare countries according to the metrics of some independent studies.
thanks for the info on the study. I assumed as much, when i went off the statin everything cleared right up.
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