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Why at the doctors specifically?

crimsonalucard 8y ago
They hoard Monopolized knowledge that can likely be known by a cancer technician. Then they charge a premium for it. The therapy, doctor visits and all that come from them and they charge that much because you're dying and you need access to their monopolized knowledge. Reduce 12 years of training to 4 years and lower the selection criteria of students entering a specialty and I'll show you an economy where doctors are not in always stressed out and paid fairly. Grades never correlate with how good a doctor is, so why are we filtering the supply of doctors based off of that criteria. It's insane. We need more software engineers so we bootcamp it. We need more cancer specialists we should lower the selection criteria and train specialists without the overhead of 12 years of training where the majority of that training is irrelevant and used to only filter and reduce the supply of doctors. Then they hide behind the bureaucracy as if they aren't in control. I know I'm in good hands because said doctor knows organic chemistry and had a high enough GPA to get into medschool.
- maire 8y ago
  Malpractice insurance takes a surprising % of doctor's income. Delivering babies is particularly expensive. It reached the point that the doctor that delivered my babies no longer carries malpractice insurance.
  - elliekelly 8y ago
    Did he proactively disclose that to you or did it just come up in conversation? Attorneys in many states aren't required to have malpractice insurance but must disclose to clients if their malpractice insurance doesn't meet some minimum standard. Edit to add that I also suspect the health insurance companies are a big part of driving up the malpractice insurance costs. For example, if there's some sort of error in a routine surgery where the patient is left permanently disabled the patient won't necessarily be the one suing the doctor but the insurance company might go after the doctor's malpractice insurance to "soften the blow" of the additional cost of caring for/insuring the patient.
    - maire 8y ago
      She not he. When my daughter had her babies I recommended my doctor who was pretty young when she delivered my babies. In fact - we were both pregnant together. She was a couple of months behind me. My doctor notified up front that she did not have malpractice insurance. In fact the insurance situation is pretty hard on working mothers. I know 2 doctors who gave up medicine when they had their children. They wanted to work part time and the insurance structure does not support part time work. A generation earlier - my father was a family practitioner who gave up delivering babies because the insurance was so high. He had to specialize in internal medicine. That is why we no longer have family practitioners in the US.
      - elliekelly 8y ago
        Yikes! I’m embarrassed to have assumed your doctor was a male. Thanks for pointing that out :)
        crimsonalucard 8y ago
        Why would you be embarrassed? Most doctors are male, this is a fact. I'm ashamed that your ashamed of this. Sexism is bad but to be ashamed of this, which is clearly not sexism is embarrassing and emasculating.
        elliekelly 8y ago
        > emasculating. I think you've meant this as an insult by insinuating my comment somehow made me "less of a man." Swing & a miss. As you can clearly discern from my username, I'm a woman, so I don't much care about your opinion of my "manliness." Perhaps you should ask yourself why you feel the need to attack someone's "masculinity" when you disagree with something they've said rather than discussing your disagreement on the merits.
        crimsonalucard 8y ago
        No i did not mean to be insulting at all. I mean that its emasculating to all men to consider such an assumption that is statistically valid to be shameful. Assuming that someone is a he instead of a she no matter the circumstance is not in any way shameful. Neither is it the other way around but you'll never hear someone being ashamed that they assumed a doctor was a she instead of a he. It's only in certain places and modern times where people have to be so careful about non-issues. A mistaken pronoun is a non-issue made into an issue by fear of sexism.

They hoard Monopolized knowledge that can likely be known by a cancer technician. Then they charge a premium for it. The therapy, doctor visits and all that come from them and they charge that much because you're dying and you need access to their monopolized knowledge. Reduce 12 years of training to 4 years and lower the selection criteria of students entering a specialty and I'll show you an economy where doctors are not in always stressed out and paid fairly. Grades never correlate with how good a doctor is, so why are we filtering the supply of doctors based off of that criteria. It's insane. We need more software engineers so we bootcamp it. We need more cancer specialists we should lower the selection criteria and train specialists without the overhead of 12 years of training where the majority of that training is irrelevant and used to only filter and reduce the supply of doctors. Then they hide behind the bureaucracy as if they aren't in control. I know I'm in good hands because said doctor knows organic chemistry and had a high enough GPA to get into medschool.

maire 8y ago
Malpractice insurance takes a surprising % of doctor's income. Delivering babies is particularly expensive. It reached the point that the doctor that delivered my babies no longer carries malpractice insurance.
- elliekelly 8y ago
  Did he proactively disclose that to you or did it just come up in conversation? Attorneys in many states aren't required to have malpractice insurance but must disclose to clients if their malpractice insurance doesn't meet some minimum standard. Edit to add that I also suspect the health insurance companies are a big part of driving up the malpractice insurance costs. For example, if there's some sort of error in a routine surgery where the patient is left permanently disabled the patient won't necessarily be the one suing the doctor but the insurance company might go after the doctor's malpractice insurance to "soften the blow" of the additional cost of caring for/insuring the patient.
  - maire 8y ago
    She not he. When my daughter had her babies I recommended my doctor who was pretty young when she delivered my babies. In fact - we were both pregnant together. She was a couple of months behind me. My doctor notified up front that she did not have malpractice insurance. In fact the insurance situation is pretty hard on working mothers. I know 2 doctors who gave up medicine when they had their children. They wanted to work part time and the insurance structure does not support part time work. A generation earlier - my father was a family practitioner who gave up delivering babies because the insurance was so high. He had to specialize in internal medicine. That is why we no longer have family practitioners in the US.
    - elliekelly 8y ago
      Yikes! I’m embarrassed to have assumed your doctor was a male. Thanks for pointing that out :)
      - crimsonalucard 8y ago
        Why would you be embarrassed? Most doctors are male, this is a fact. I'm ashamed that your ashamed of this. Sexism is bad but to be ashamed of this, which is clearly not sexism is embarrassing and emasculating.
        elliekelly 8y ago
        > emasculating. I think you've meant this as an insult by insinuating my comment somehow made me "less of a man." Swing & a miss. As you can clearly discern from my username, I'm a woman, so I don't much care about your opinion of my "manliness." Perhaps you should ask yourself why you feel the need to attack someone's "masculinity" when you disagree with something they've said rather than discussing your disagreement on the merits.
        crimsonalucard 8y ago
        No i did not mean to be insulting at all. I mean that its emasculating to all men to consider such an assumption that is statistically valid to be shameful. Assuming that someone is a he instead of a she no matter the circumstance is not in any way shameful. Neither is it the other way around but you'll never hear someone being ashamed that they assumed a doctor was a she instead of a he. It's only in certain places and modern times where people have to be so careful about non-issues. A mistaken pronoun is a non-issue made into an issue by fear of sexism.