Of course there is burnout and cynicism! You spend four years in undergrad, four in med school, and then up to another 8 in residencies and fellowships (earning about as much as a waiter), racking up close to $250,000 in debt only to have people tell you that your services should be rendered for free!
“It’s not clear why burnout strikes so many doctors, Shanafelt said, noting that excessive workloads are only part of the equation. Other possible reasons include too much paperwork, loss of professional autonomy and a higher patient load to make up for declining reimbursement rates.”
It would be of interest to compare with other highly regulated professions or occupations.
The media always try’s to paint conservatives as uneducated in comparison to their liberal counter-parts. I guess we see that conservatives may in fact be better read, and more knowlegeable on issues.
Eh there’s a 3% difference in college graduates between “liberals” and “conservatives.” When looked at as “on the left” and “on the right,” Conservatives have like an 11% lead.
Yet the, Department of Labor noted that blue states have higher unemployment rates. With all that free time, you would think they’d be better read.
“According to publishing-industry analyst Michael Norris, of Simba Information, that might be due to the right’s ability to connect with its readers. “I can tell you that there are conservative imprints and conservative publishers that are just brilliant at figuring out what kind of books their audience wants to read,” Norris told Wired. “There just aren’t aggressively left-leaning imprints like that.”
The development of the conservative tradition” – http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/amazon-political-heat-map/
“[C]onservatives, and particularly a segment of the conservative movement, have been pretty self-conscious since about World War II, in coming up with a coherent intellectual tradition. And I think liberals have been much less self-conscious about doing that. I mean, partly the project of liberalism is to be sort of skeptical and eclectic. And to some degree, the kind of default position of liberalism has been diversity, the big tent, bringing in lots of voices” – http://www.npr.org/2012/08/15/158887969/where-is-the-liberal-ayn-rand
41 percent of primary care is delivered by specialists.
My brother-in-law mentioned this. Back when he ran a proctology practice, many of his patients liked him and ask if they could come in for other problems.
Doctors feeling discouraged and unmotivated to even go to work due to this system’s poor management and lack of control. They don’t get reimbursed for their services, their personal relationships get affected, they struggle building a relationship with their patients. Add it all up and you will get physicians battling to stay focused and making all sorts of mistakes at work, causing an inevitable decline in quality of care. And I can keep going!
And…many of them are even thinking of suicide? What’s next?
Who wouldn’t struggle with burnout? With a profession that’s already challenging and demanding as is, on top of the fact that you have all sorts of regulations stating how doctors are getting overpaid for the services they offer and that they should be motivated to help their patients regardless of the reiumbursement they get…I would be going crazy too. Not just because unfortunately nothing is free these days, even though that would be fantastic…but because these people, whether doctors with enough money to put themselves through med school…still have bills to pay and families to feed.
Why are there so many patients visiting specialists when they don’t need to? That said, why are these specialists getting paid more for rendering these services? As we are constantly being told by the media and studies, the current shortage in doctors goes to primare care physicians. If specialists get paid more, then this will only make this shortage worst. This will, if it hasn’t yet, create an incentive for doctors to become specialists and not PCPs…should these PCPs get paid mroe in order to decrease this shortage of doctors and maybe create an incentive for them to offer a better quality of service and make patients open to visit them instead of specialists?
Of course there is burnout and cynicism! You spend four years in undergrad, four in med school, and then up to another 8 in residencies and fellowships (earning about as much as a waiter), racking up close to $250,000 in debt only to have people tell you that your services should be rendered for free!
“It’s not clear why burnout strikes so many doctors, Shanafelt said, noting that excessive workloads are only part of the equation. Other possible reasons include too much paperwork, loss of professional autonomy and a higher patient load to make up for declining reimbursement rates.”
It would be of interest to compare with other highly regulated professions or occupations.
The media always try’s to paint conservatives as uneducated in comparison to their liberal counter-parts. I guess we see that conservatives may in fact be better read, and more knowlegeable on issues.
Doctor burnout? Not surprised.
Eh there’s a 3% difference in college graduates between “liberals” and “conservatives.” When looked at as “on the left” and “on the right,” Conservatives have like an 11% lead.
Yet the, Department of Labor noted that blue states have higher unemployment rates. With all that free time, you would think they’d be better read.
Interesting. Here are a couple other takes.
“According to publishing-industry analyst Michael Norris, of Simba Information, that might be due to the right’s ability to connect with its readers. “I can tell you that there are conservative imprints and conservative publishers that are just brilliant at figuring out what kind of books their audience wants to read,” Norris told Wired. “There just aren’t aggressively left-leaning imprints like that.”
The development of the conservative tradition” – http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/amazon-political-heat-map/
“[C]onservatives, and particularly a segment of the conservative movement, have been pretty self-conscious since about World War II, in coming up with a coherent intellectual tradition. And I think liberals have been much less self-conscious about doing that. I mean, partly the project of liberalism is to be sort of skeptical and eclectic. And to some degree, the kind of default position of liberalism has been diversity, the big tent, bringing in lots of voices” – http://www.npr.org/2012/08/15/158887969/where-is-the-liberal-ayn-rand
41 percent of primary care is delivered by specialists.
My brother-in-law mentioned this. Back when he ran a proctology practice, many of his patients liked him and ask if they could come in for other problems.
And it begins…so to speak.
Doctors feeling discouraged and unmotivated to even go to work due to this system’s poor management and lack of control. They don’t get reimbursed for their services, their personal relationships get affected, they struggle building a relationship with their patients. Add it all up and you will get physicians battling to stay focused and making all sorts of mistakes at work, causing an inevitable decline in quality of care. And I can keep going!
And…many of them are even thinking of suicide? What’s next?
Who wouldn’t struggle with burnout? With a profession that’s already challenging and demanding as is, on top of the fact that you have all sorts of regulations stating how doctors are getting overpaid for the services they offer and that they should be motivated to help their patients regardless of the reiumbursement they get…I would be going crazy too. Not just because unfortunately nothing is free these days, even though that would be fantastic…but because these people, whether doctors with enough money to put themselves through med school…still have bills to pay and families to feed.
Why are there so many patients visiting specialists when they don’t need to? That said, why are these specialists getting paid more for rendering these services? As we are constantly being told by the media and studies, the current shortage in doctors goes to primare care physicians. If specialists get paid more, then this will only make this shortage worst. This will, if it hasn’t yet, create an incentive for doctors to become specialists and not PCPs…should these PCPs get paid mroe in order to decrease this shortage of doctors and maybe create an incentive for them to offer a better quality of service and make patients open to visit them instead of specialists?