[GuB-42]

Sure, but no doctors is worse than lower skilled doctors as even lower skilled doctors are better than the average patient self-treatment attempt.

We need doctors who are available to treat simple conditions and refer to a more qualified doctor for the complex ones. Such a job doesn't require being a genius, just people who are not complete idiots, and the qualifications required here are genius-level, not idiotproof-level.

[throwaway2037]

    > We need doctors who are available to treat simple conditions and refer to a more qualified doctor for the complex ones.

This is most medical systems work in highly industrialised nations. First, you visit a GP. If necessary the send you to a specialist.

[mcmoor]

I don't know, lower skilled doctors can be quite a pseudo science amplifier at worst. Sometimes it does feel like that no doctor is better lower skilled one, especially when self treatment (or more accurately, remote treatment) is getting better nowadays.

[GuB-42]

The problem is worse when there is a lack of actual doctors.

It people can't see a doctor, or can't get decent care because doctors are overworked, they will go to the "pseudo doctors". "pseudo doctors" are usually much less regulated, because they don't really practice medicine, can't make prescriptions, are not covered by healthcare subsidies, etc... but they are available, and actually caring, because there is no shortage of them.

This is actually good for the patients, sometimes, all you need to get better is someone who listens to you and points you to a healthier lifestyle something, something that "pseudo doctors" can do well. The problem is when they bring their pseudoscience to "treat" actual medical problems that can't just be solved by eating vegetables and getting some rest.

Now imagine an actual doctor who is available and caring, giving you all the benefits of the "pseudo doctor", but in addition, can actually practice medicine. Maybe not to the highest level, but he would have attended an actual medical school and knows enough not to treat cancer with fruits.

The problem now in many places is that it is not just hard to become a doctor, it is hard to access medical studies.

[mcmoor]

Sounds like we need something between nurse and doctor. Or is actual nurse already suffice for this?

[erik_seaberg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner is a title I've seen.

[mcmoor]

So what's the drawback of this? Because otherwise this sounds like what's actually needed.

[data_maan]

No real doctor will be caring, because he has no time for that, the way the system is currently.