“They will need another gimmick and a better extended track record to revive their profession.”
They don’t care. It’s a business now.
You need to pay >$100 for a doctor to tell you you need pink stuff for your kid, which you get for $50 from the pharmacy for $5.00 in antibiotics
It also costs you in time - waiting at the doctors office, travelling back and forth from the pharmacy, and working with insurance paperwork.
I know all the arguments against it from doctors, but if you had amoxicillin in your medicine cabinet, the vast majority of the time you could just treat your kid at home and dispense with the cost, expense, and risk of dealing with the medical complex.
Works for sheep, cows and chickens.
Love having to go to a GP just to be diagnoised then I need to come back for a procedure, then get a referral for a specialist.
Nickel and dime. “That’s a different issue, you’ll need to come back for that.”
“I don’t care about your observations, here’s a pill...and PLEASE...don’t tell me about anything but the most common drug side effects. If its not a common side effect you are just a nutjob”.
“How DARE you question my blanket diagnoses!”
Very tired of medical doctors who can never be asked to justify their opinions.
My wife used to work in HR at Dartmouth-Hitchcock hospital. You can’t imagine the arrogant, self-righteous condescending talk and behavior from these medical ‘professionals’. It was disgusting. So self-entitled. Like spoiled kids.