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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why?  Not enough doctors, too much demand, a lot of recently trained NPs, and cheaper cost to hire the NPs that you can find instead of the doctors with higher salaries and whom you can't find anyway.

[b]There were a lot of physician deaths during COVID[/b], and there were even more people who tried earlier, c switched to nonclinical work, or just left the profession.[/quote]

That's simply not true.  All told, 4,511 physicians died during this early phase of COVID-19—622 more deaths than would have occurred had the pandemic not happened. Excess physician deaths peaked at 70 in December 2020 among all active physicians, followed by a rapid drop in 2021 when safe and effective vaccines became available.

Active physicians had lower excess death rates than nonactive doctors and the general population despite having higher risk for contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection throughout the pandemic.

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/new-study-tallies-excess-physician-deaths-during-early#:~:text=All%20told%2C%204%2C511%20physicians%20died,and%20effective%20vaccines%20became%20available.[/quote]

That is still a lot of physician deaths, and it lowers the pool of people who are seeing patients, because there are both patient-heavy practicing physicians and those who don't dee patients at all. And your numbers cover mortality, not morbidity.

I saw patients in the COVID ward despite my cardiac history. I'm now on multiple medications for cardiac arrythmias after catching COVID in the first wave. I can see how much you matter my life, though.

Thanks for making it clear. I appreciate the lack of a filter -- it allows for others to judge you as you are. [/quote]

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