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My doctor and dentist are both mothers and employed part-time. one works 4 hours only each day. the other works 3 days a week. they are both under 40 years old. I like them, but it doesn't make sense to enroll female students in medical schools with limited slots when many choose to work part-time compared to male doctors.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 02-20-2020 at 03:44 PM..
The whole health care system is going to fall apart by 2030 anyway. It will be a third-world quality health care system regardless for a majority, so might as well have low taxes rather than a tax-payer scheme that socializes the costs.
A high majority of new doctors are females and based on past patters many will be part-timers only. All this while morbid obesity skyrockets to 24% for all Americans and 70 million are senior-citizens and many boomers will be in their 80s by then and need extremely intensive health care services on a daily basis.
A majority of those in medical school are women and 31% of female physicians with children work part-time compared to 5% of men.
So basically many of new doctors will be only part-timers to care for their children.
All this while, morbid obesity is suppose to skyrocket to 24% based on current models. With rates of 27% for women and 32% for lower-income Americans by 2030.
All this while there are 70 million plus Americans over 65.
There has also been a rapid rise in overdoses, alcoholism and other ailments.
The only reason we have crappy health care is because the government helps to create monopolies in every area from pharmaceutical companies to health insurance to hospitals and doctors through licensing, regulations, approvals and outright prohibition.
It’s time to give the government more power to create more monopolies!
Last edited by lifeexplorer; 02-20-2020 at 05:15 PM..
While there is always the possibility that technology and research can find a way out of this, I am not optimistic. The best way to improve health outcomes is to lose weight, and technology can't help much with that. People are just lazy.
While there is always the possibility that technology and research can find a way out of this, I am not optimistic. The best way to improve health outcomes is to lose weight, and technology can't help much with that. People are just lazy.
Yes do whatever you can to avoid doctors and the medical industrial complex.
If you think this is a reason to avoid doctors, you haven’t really thought it through.
Let’s take the little girl in your article. If she had avoided the doctors, she would have been dead anyway. It is just that Cancer would be the cause of her death instead of medical errors.
Remove the “medical industrial complex” completely, and the death from medical errors goes down to zero, which is great. But the death from all other causes will skyrocket to the point where the current rate of medical error related deaths, will seem minuscule in comparison.
As far as the OP goes, thankfully, I was planning on retiring from medicine in 2030. I happily work 80+ hours a week, so I guess they will have to find a few of those part timers to replace me.
There was a time when doctors could finish all of their education in 6 years. I know a doctor who retired about 3 years ago, and that's how he went through medical school. They should reintroduce these types of programs. They will likely just bring doctors from 3rd world countries though, because it's better than allowing the entire system to collapse.
My doctor is from South America and my dentist from Vietnam. I couldn’t be happier.
If you think this is a reason to avoid doctors, you haven’t really thought it through.
Let’s take the little girl in your article. If she had avoided the doctors, she would have been dead anyway. It is just that Cancer would be the cause of her death instead of medical errors.
Remove the “medical industrial complex” completely, and the death from medical errors goes down to zero, which is great. But the death from all other causes will skyrocket to the point where the current rate of medical error related deaths, will seem minuscule in comparison.
As far as the OP goes, thankfully, I was planning on retiring from medicine in 2030. I happily work 80+ hours a week, so I guess they will have to find a few of those part timers to replace me.
I don't avoid doctors per se.
I avoid blindly entangling myself in the complex. As I've noted numerous times on this board if you have Google and a modicum amount of intelligence you can successfully navigate your medical journey if maladies should arise.
I know plenty of people who simply go, blindly follow, digest poison (prescription drugs), and never take on the self-advocate role so vital to the health of an individual as well as the relationship between that person and their doctors.
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