No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage

New York Times ^ | Dec 4, 2013 | SCOTT GOTTLIEB and EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL

[Grampa Dave]

“If there will not be a doctor shortage, why do they need pharmacists to provide urgent care and “skilled health aides” (NON-licensed) “monitor” patients at home?! “

Another wonderful facet of ObozoCare aka ACA.

Liberal slugs and union thugs will be employed at very good wages to get a paycheck and serve as health care providers as our doctor population disappears.

We will be lucky to see a new BS or even a MS degreed RN, with zero actual patient care experience and hesheit will be in charge of the various aides/providers with even less real patient care experience.

[Grampa Dave]

“I guess the letter from my long time doc taking an early retirement because of Obamacare didn’t happen!”

The same here with our family doctor “retiring” after 35 years and his young associate going to Kaiser. I guess the closed practice is just a figment of our imagination.

The reality was close to 5000 patients suddenly had to find new docs in a community where older docs were “retiring” and younger docs going to Kaiser.

This happened last summer.

[Grampa Dave]

Bingo, the doctor has nailed the reality of medicine:

“You completely miss the point. It takes 10 years of training to be able to figure out when it’s NOT “ just simple sutures, or a sinus or bladder infection.” Did that lac actually involve a tendon laceration? Is that sinus infection actually venous sinous thrombosis? Is the bladder infection actually an infected renal stone, or cancer?

I’ve practiced ER for almost 30 years, can’t tell you how many times “ simple” things turn out to be anything but.”

[Grampa Dave]

did you hear about the “group appointments”?

Yeah, like, everyone that needs a prostate exam will be grouped up in a room and the doctor will do everyone during the same visit.

“How’s it going over there, Charlie?”

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Apparently, this is being done at some HMO’s/Groups now. A friend, who is patient with a high rated HMO had a foot problem. He went in for his foot exam and several other patients were in the same room separated by a cloth curtain and lined up for the exam. He could hear the podiatrist talking to each patient about their problems and then his treatment options.

So much for patient confidentiality.

Some orthodontists have been seeing their young patients in a semi amphi theatre setting. The high powered dentist would go from patient to patient to do his/her thing. Many neglected to wash their hands and change gloves as they went to patient to patient.

When our 40 something sons need braces, we found a good guy, who saw them one at a time.

My wife had a senior lap over problem at age 70 and needed braces. She eliminated several orthodontists, who used the group oral gangbang workshop program, before she found one, who did one patient at a time.

[Nachum]

Uh yes there already is. It is already difficult for me to hire new physicians, and I live in a highly desireable area to practice.

Which is why, embedded in the law a requirement for doctors who take federal loans for Med School to practice for two years where the govt. tells them. Conscription.

[zeestephen]

RE : “Group appointments”

Oh, yikes, I hope not.

I'm a year away from Medicare eligibility.

ObamaCare reduces Medicare funding by $1 trillion over the next 10 years.

I believe they call that “savings.”

Or, translated into English, that means the doctors I will depend on for my twilight years just got a $1 trillion pay cut.

I'm sure that will put all of them in a really good mood!