[SkyPuncher]

I’m married to a doctor. My opinion is training level generally needs to correlate to the level of acuity.

Surgeons will always need to be extremely highly trained because they do not have the ability to hesitate. Most of healthcare simply isn’t anywhere near the acuity level of surgery.

By far, the biggest need is primary care. The exact opposite of acute. The rigor, effort, and expense of medical school simply doesn’t match modern primary care. Either the system needs to change to accommodate that or physicians are in for a reckoning.

Physician lobbies have a golden opportunity to ensure even higher pay and better product by building better care models. Instead they simple say “fuck your I got mine”

[the_d3f4ult]

Physician lobbies are notorious for not actually aligning with physicians' interests and, rather, being in the pockets of the hospital industry. The AMA is the worst for this. Most physicians feel that they do not have a voice anymore.