That is great. Unfortunately that would mean a lot less doctors and less access to health care.
That is true and you make a good point. Thank you.
All I can offer here is my own experience. I think that a lot of doctors who go into the field for money, and also unfortunately some of those who go into the field for love, just are not good physicians. At one time I had a condition that would have led to my death within months. I knew it was serious. I actually was aware that I was dying, which surprises me because I have never experienced that feeling before or since. I went to three physicians about this problem.
Not one of those physicians ever bothered to give me an exam. I was put off with stories such as “you have a cold.” I am telling the truth here. I was told that even though I was suffering from excruciating pain in my abdomen; pain that would cause me to double over. I couldn’t help it. It was awful. How can a physician (or anybody, for that matter) decide that excruciating abdominal pain is symptomatic of “a cold”? It doesn’t make sense.
I would have been very happy if I had never had to see those three physicians because they were lazy and they obviously didn’t care about my health because if they had they would have made at least some sort of attempt to find out what was wrong.
The fourth physician made a correct diagnosis within five minutes. He was a resident. He performed the surgery that saved my life.
If I could have gone straight to the fourth physician I would have been in a much better situation. But the first three physicians were still paid.
Unfortunately, this has happened to me twice (although the second time I wasn’t dying). I have had severe pain in one foot and had a physician look down at my foot and say “Your foot is perfect.” Uh huh. I guess he had x ray vision or some other sort of power that let him see all the various parts and pieces and sinews and tendons and nerves and bones and blood vessels that are in a human foot. He didn’t do his job but he was paid anyway.
I saw two more physicians. The second one misdiagnosed the problem and then told me about his history of STDs. I got out of there. The third one told me that he didn’t know what was wrong. Both physicians were paid.
The fourth physician correctly diagnosed the problem and performed the surgery, along with the third physician as her supervisor (the one who told me he didn’t know). The surgery was botched. So, again, I went to yet another physician. This one correctly diagnosed the problem and performed surgery which was successful.
The reason I’m providing these examples is that I would have been willing to pay for good care. I would have saved a lot of money if I hadn’t had to waste my time going to physicians who were so sloppy and careless. If I could have spent my money only on the physicians that provided decent care I would have no complaint.
Good, caring physicians should be reimbursed appropriately.
Bad, sloppy physicians shouldn’t be physicians in the first place.
And, finally,
PHYSICIANS WHO TRY TO KILL THEIR PATIENTS SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AND IMPRISONED. I’m adding that because my Mom’s physician tried to kill her by prescribing a medication that he knew she was allergic to. His reason? He was tired of treating diabetics and wanted to go into liposuction. I will be happy to provide the details in a PM. This is not paranoid thinking, although I would tend to think that if I read this post. My entire family became aware of what was happening and my brother called the physician and gave him hell. I apologize for taking this off-topic. It’s obviously a sore spot for me because I loved my mother very much and it hurts and angers me to know that somebody she trusted for so many years decided she could be discarded like a piece of trash. And this somebody was a physician. And he was paid for his attempt to kill my mother.
