My sympathy for the good few who new better. To hell with the rest.
If you are a doctor and hate your job ... then you are not doing things right.
quit working for the hospital, go to a small town and open your own practice and don’t accept medicare, medicaid, or insurance and all your problems will magically go away.
In the 35 years I’ve been a nurse, I’ve seen physicians go from being proud, independent professionals to insecure, slavedriven employees.
being a lawyer can be awful too dealing with people screaming at you and unhappy
My whole family used to have a doctor that was so wonderful. He was excellent. Many of the procedures were done right there in the office. This was back in the 70’s and the 80’s.
Prices were affordable.
Then all the increased paperwork and government intervention came along. He quit because that was not what he had in mind for practicing medicine.
We sure missed him, but he was able to see the writing on the wall early on.
I once talked with a doctor about half an hour after he had just told a man’s family that he had opened him up, found his gut full of tumors, and their loved one could not be saved.
Can’t recall ever having more sympathy for another human being. Would not have taken his job for six times whatever he was being paid.
But don’t worry, folks, we’ll soon have all those nice foreign doctors to take their place. They will not speak English very well and will accordingly mistake what you are saying, and their training isn’t nearly as good, but heck, healthcare will continue to be free, right? Blessings be upon Obamacare!
my kid’s pediatrician works his fanny off, he barely has time to draw breath.
A physician’s greatest joy is the patient relationship.
Assembly-line medicine undermines the patient-physician relationship.
Most doctors are burned out, overworked, or exhausted.
Many doctors spend little time with their families.
Workaholics are admired in medicine.
Medicine values competition over nurturing.
Many doctors function in survival mode.
Doctors are not supposed to make mistakes.
Caring for sick people can make you sick if you don’t care for yourself.
Medical education often dissociates mind from body and spirit.
Some medical students believe they graduate with PTSD.
Seeing too much pain and not enough joy is unhealthy.
For a physician, a cry for help is weakness.
The reductionist medical model is dehumanizing for patient and physician.
Many doctors are emotionally detached (especially male physicians).
Doctors are obsessive-compulsive perfectionists in an imperfect medical system.
Physicians are the nation’s social safety net with few resources to help patients.
Some doctors feel like indentured slaves.
Death is perceived as failure.
Doctors don’t take very good care of themselves or each other.
Many doctors are in denial about the high rate of physician suicide.
Physicians are often bullied by insurance companies, employers, and patients.
Doctoring is more than a job; it’s a calling, an identity.
Doctors are often socially isolated.
Doctors can’t just be people. They’re doctors 24/7.
Doctors can feel severe psychological pain.
Doctors can feel powerless.
Doctors can feel trapped. Some see no alternatives to their suffering.
Doctors have easy access to lethal drugs and firearms.
Doctors have the same problems as everyone else.
Doctors have marital distress. They get divorced.
Doctors have addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Doctors have economic hardship and unbearable debt.
Doctors have mental illness.
Doctors are human.
Just off-hand I would say one of the main reasons is doctors are being further and further separated from the actual practice of medicine since they have to deal with mountains of new regulations and paperwork and record-keeping and reporting obligations.
Some doctors make it difficult to sympathize with them. Met a couple on FR with an arrogant streak a mile wide,
Same for pharmacists. Healthcare has become a demeaning torture chamber on every level.
Good job, AMA! It’s so great that you went out of your way to help destroy your noble profession by prostituting yourself out to Obama by supporting Obamacare.
Medicine is an interesting field, I think a huge issue for many is graduating from school with a mountain of debt, and then trying to practice in the current environment.
There are alternatives to satisfying work in the current practice environment -- cosmetic plastic surgery and corrective eye surgery aren't covered by many insurance plans, and there is concierge medicine/direct primary care.
I wouldn't advise anyone with the desire and talent to not go into medicine, I'd just advise doing so with caution and doing so debt-free. I am skeptical of that 9 out of 10 number.
Wait a minute - I thought that there was enormous spate of suicides of bankers, or people who used to work at banks, or people who worked at insurance companies, or people who sold insurance, or people who did IT work for banks - that the 12 or so instances some morons had cobbled together was a worldwide epidemic.
Are all these doctor suicides a plot by the banks?
Please, FR conspiracists, explain the link.
And they cry all the way to the bank. I had a kidney stone and went to the ER for 1.5 hours. So far I have been out of pocket almost $3,000. $507 was from the hospital for a medical exam and then I get another bill for $1,018 from some PA for “services rendered”. $1,500 for 1.5 hours? Really?
This was two months ago and I’m still getting bills! I think they sent them until you balk.
And eventually the only pickings for the elites will be from the unwashed masses of doctors as well.
Then you’ll hear some screaming.
Try exercising your “Right To Healthcare” when no one wants to be a doctor ...
Many have quit or are quitting.