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[quote=Anonymous]It's wild to me that people still think doctors are making the business decisions. Do you think we have any say over how many patients we see/hr, how much time we get to spend with them, how much charting is required, or the cost of care? The only MDs calling these shots are self-employed practitioners are virtually none of them are primary care.

Private Equity has gutted medicine (and isn't done, it'll get worse) while health insurance companies continue to make basic care almost unaffordable. As an ER doc, I see this in real time every day as I manage people's diabetes, hypertension, obesity-related complaints, insomnia, dementia, and any other number of chronic complaints. For some numbers, go on over to the "young retirees" thread to peek at what people are paying for crappy outpt medical care (when they can find it).

If you think we aren't as frustrated as our patients, consider the need to retain the "doctors are evil" narrative. It's as useless as laying into your Delta pilot for cancelling your flight, when we all know airlines routinely overbook and have been bailed out by the feds a bunch of times.

I 100% consider my field of choice a public service field, and sometimes have really nice patients. Sometimes I'm assaulted at work (physically. I'm verbally assaulted almost daily but that's the ER). But we have No. Control. Your non-concierge PMD is in the same boat as me.

We simultaneously expect gold-plated health care in this country, don't want to pay for it, won't agree on a single-payer option to fix it, and won't control our weight, blood pressure, or blood sugar.

The public bashing us doesn't help, but honestly, we're too burned out. It just rolls off at this point.[/quote]

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