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I don’t think you read the article, or at least you’re not addressing its claim that doctors are burned out and leaving the profession while new doctors are una

• version_five 3y ago
  > Those two issues probably go hand in hand — there just aren’t enough doctors and the existing ones are overworked as a result. That makes the grandparent comment relevant, no? Medicine seems oriented around scarcity of physicians, coupled with paying physicians by the appointment or patient interaction. So the apparatus around healthcare is set up to fully utilize the doctor, as in having a deep queue of work so they never wait and moving them from task to task. Which is a really shitty way to work and leads to burnout. Some alternate reality that had more doctors getting paid reasonably to work an a normal human pace might be better for everyone, even if the average salary went down a bit.
• midoridensha 3y ago
  >its claim that doctors are burned out and leaving the profession Americans totally mistreated and abused its healthcare practitioners during 2 nightmarish years of Covid, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.