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Posted on 11/29/2016 7:15:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Residency, in case you haven’t heard, is difficult work. 124,000 of us have dedicated three to seven years of our life to communities around the country, collectively making life and death decisions for millions of patients each day. Our weekly duty hour limit is twice that of most working Americans....
completely repeal Obamacare. Although he has reneged and stated that he would keep the ban on preconditions and coverage for young adults on the table, he has been much less clear about what he’d do to the quality and payment schemes of the ACA. A worrisome contingent of conservatives nonetheless wish to ditch those programs: out of nine known conservative proposals, at least five have called for the abolition of payment reform.
Interestingly, there are a number of unique reasons for payment reform programs to be strengthened by conservatives. By incentivizing local healthcare establishments, the ACA encourages them to take the lead as innovators meeting the unique needs of their communities, the type of private sector creativity that Republicans have championed.
Yeah - and I’ve watched doctors waste many minutes searching through the humongous database of listed maladies/and allowed treatments trying to get a simple test authorized....
Which must mean that conservatives want Medicare dismantled, because it is basically price controls on 40% or more of health care.
OK by me, but if you advocate that here on FR, expect the "I PAID IN!! THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED ME!! crowd to be on you like white on rice.
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He is a second year resident.
Yeah, I've heard. Those sixteen hour shifts with required rest periods are brutal, huh?
It was a lot more difficult when I did it. But, as we used to say, "The worst thing about being on every other night is that you miss half the good cases".
But here's the real deal: Being a staff physician, with real responsibility and no one to call for help, is ten times harder.
So, if you are struggling now, maybe you should look into another line of work.
See post 23. Pic of author.
It will wind up taking sixty years, but they will get what they wanted.
Bullsh!t. I was a surgey resident back when we worked 110 plus hour weeks!
Forcing people to use stupid codes in ADDITION to learning thousands of diseases and several treatments for each and WHEN to use which is just idiot gummint micromanagement designed by lawyers. The I’d NO NEED for codes in an era when computers can TALK.
I am so sick of this iPad “correcting” my no errors with gibberish it is on mistake from being blasted with the twelve gauge in my back yard! Speaking of dumb computers.
You’re a surgeon?
Yes I remember the days before the 80 hour per week max. I was a night shift ICU nurse and we used to pick our residents’ heads up off the desk to run codes at 3 a.m. And by codes, I mean arrests. Not the bullcrap ICD-10 or whatever
Nowadays, we see the residents leaving the OR by 4 pm because they need their rest.
No delegated power for these programs: they should go.
People’s circumstances, even if dire, are not amendments to the Constitution.
Thing is, we need immigration simply because of the way social security works. But that is for another thread
I think it's really difficult to know what people think in the context of interactions in an academic environment, because if you said you were for Trump in most academic institutions you would be chastised, and there could be career consequences (e.g. residency and fellowship opportunities and support letters etc.). The whole concept of universities being places of wide-ranging thought and discourse has been turned upside down.
My doctor Wallet sees my insurance card as an ATM always want’s test for things I don’t have to many are in it just for the money.
If I change to another doctor it’s the same game a no win deal no wonder the cost of medical treatment is so high.
Yup, medicare is a real mess. GOP will have to prove it can be trusted with other things before going after the big ones...hope we have time
What an idiot
Wait til he sees what his beloved Ocare pays
So a “Nigerian-American” wants to tell us what kind of medical insurance system we should have.
I am sick and tired of foreigners telling us how to run our country. Cruz, Rubio, Nikki Haley, on and on. (Melania is okay though)
Residents used to have to work much more than they do now. Today there is a cap on hours,the salary is decent considering it’s practice and the high salaries at the end of it, and residents feel free to complain (when long ago they were essentially hospital slaves and complaining would see you booted from the program).
The quality of doctors has been dropping while these changes have been taking place. Exhibit A: This guy.
Poor little guy. He is so overworked. I did 5 years in general surgery residency. You worked until your job got done. And if Iwe complained the staff had no mercy on us....so ...... you kept it to yourself and did your work. Then on those rare weekends you were off you moonlighted to make a few extra dollars. This dumb bastard needs to exit the profession and raise daisies. He is worked sooooo hard. Sorry I have been there and we did not bitch about it.
Generation Snowflake= the irrelevant generation.
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