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If there were more doctors, it wouldn't be a problem. The issue is with this profession, they aren't just incentivized by the money but by saving a life. How do you say no when someone's life is on the line? They need reinforcements.
They could earn comfortable six figure salaries and just not work as much overtime
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Yeah that was my thought seeing this. Same with the BMA here in the UK.
Of course the other thing about increasing supply of doctors and surgeons is that pay will go down. I'm sure people who want nicer hours will be fine with that. Right?
Just like with sugar, it's a Congressionally mandated cartel...
AMA is terrible for a multitude of reasons. Have not and will never join them.
Controlling access does keep salary high. But you aren’t you placing your life in the hands of these people. Don’t you want them to be the very best?
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The US is basically middle of the pack when it comes to MDs per capita and has more than UK, France, Singapore, and Japan - also 26% of UK MDs are foreign. This obviously isn’t the reason USA spends 20% of its GDP on healthcare
how many doctors are there today in the United States, per capita, compared to 30 years ago?
serious question.
In economics, the math works if you assume the "suppliers" of Doctors are a cartel. So, yep. And to be clear, there is no AHA board room explicitly planning this. It's just over the decades, they freak out way more about predicted Dr. surpluses than shortages--for obvious reasons
You've been saying that for a couple years now but it's just not true anymore.
In the 90s yes, boomer doctors at the AMA did what boomers do and got caps on residency slots put in place.
But today the AMA is advocating for the opposite.
Surgeons and specialists are incredible superhumans. I don't know how they do it. But yes there's too few of them; we can never reach even their staff at the office and at the hospital they give you 5 min to talk to them at best.
Your regular reminder that the AMA successfully lobbied Congress to give an anti-trust exemption so that they could cap the number of practicing physicians in the US.
The AMA is a guild interested in the well-being of its members, but its been calling for more residency spots to create more doctors for over a decade now.
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Doctor shortages are scary. They pay is great, but because of the shortages, the hours aren't. However, it's hard to just make more doctors because this is difficult stuff to skill into. You pretty much gotta know you wanna be in medicine from high school or its nigh unattainable
Reminder that congress funds residency spots and hasn’t increased spots as a way to lower spend. AMA hasn’t advocated for limited spots in a long time. Shortages in primary care are due to salary decreases, existing slots not filled. Speciality care due to congress
The AMA charges for CPT code data sets. The increase in fees they charge for this is outrageous. Went from sub $20k to plus $50k in last few years.
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I don't think more doctors would fix the issue. The oncall system isn't to mitigate low staff count, it's because continuity of care reduces mistakes.
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I would have pursued this as a career path if I saw some realistic possibility at work life balance. It’s some of the most meaningful work there is. I’m not money driven at all, but I do value my time and my own health.
Professions used to be hobbies until all this technology came around and made work life relatively suck to what's available when you're not working.
You have no idea what you’re talking about do some research a minority of physicians belong to the AMA. They have virtually no power.
Artificial scarcity makes everyone's life worse, especially medical staff.
pre-dates AMA. Physicians in 1800s slandered anyone outside their guild as "quacks" selling "elixirs" & made medical licensing universal in the name of maintaining quality. We can see quality is now in the shitter, prices are astronomical & docs have sold their souls to the govt
Also a reminder that the residency schedule was designed by a guy with a massive cocaine addiction.
Every physician should take a polygraph test and asked if they cheated during the preparation to become a physician
also they should be asked if they have ever taken cocaine
if they fail either or both pull their license
they are still actively fighting scope-of-practice reforms
"The past several years have seen hundreds of laws proposing to expand nondoctor medical professionals’ work, the American Medical Association (AMA) says, noting that it and allies have put millions of dollars into
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I do wonder how much of this could be avoided by simply having more physicians per capita
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