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It seems fun to hate on "evil" doctors, but why do we consider doctors as any different from "personal business consultants" who's business expertise is health?

• PavlovsCat 13y ago
  > It seems fun to hate on "evil" doctors I can only speak for myself; I made very good experiences with doctors whenever I myself was sick, but I also worked for 11 months on a cancer ward a while ago, and some of the stuff I saw there was kind of rage inducing. Nearly all nurses were fine, most doctors were fine, but the ones that weren't, really really made up for that. I don't think doctors are all evil, nowhere near, but the reservations and skepticism I do harbour, I don't harbour because it's "fun" to have them. It's merely a way to cope with real shitty stuff that does exist. > I'm curious how you guys think medical professionals should actually be paid / how can pricing be done "fairly" in a system where there can never be "information symmetry"? First off, of course there can be "information symmetry". Not between patient and doctor as much as among medical professionals and health insurance providers. Medicine isn't Voodoo, things are reasoned about and tested, usually, and given the right laws and enforcement of them, everything can be documented and subject to review. As for how to improve the situation: while I haven't thought in-depth about this, but how about a flat hourly rate for doctors etc.? That is, not being paid for the kind of treatment, but rather for being on the job. Of course, the hospital would need money depending on what kind of treatments they do, but if there was no (legal) way to pass on that "profit" to the staff itself, there would be no incentive for malpractice based on greed. As I said, I haven't thought much about this and maybe I am overlooking other problems this might cause (like offloading patients that are too expensive and/or too much work to other specialists, like a hot potato), but I wanted to put this out there anyway.