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elewynne t1_it9e4dl wrote

Reply to comment by peter-doubt in Maine doctor's license suspended over COVID-19 claims by HubrisAndScandals

Unfortunately we are not allowed to do much in the US. Lawyers and politicians decided several decades ago that doctors could not be trusted to be in charge of medical things due to potential conflict of interest (like hospitals), and the public (i.e. businessmen and politicians) would be better served with MBAs and such in charge of physicians (in such that some people can make insane amount of money doing it). Story is more complicated, but in short.... Medicine in America is doomed to a slow, awful, death.

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Maxpowr9 t1_it9sk43 wrote

Depends where you live. In rural America it will be coming pretty quickly as the brain drain from said states continues to accelerate.

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peter-doubt t1_itdno6n wrote

And medicare funding isn't matched by rural states... Their hospitals will be closing in big numbers soon.

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ReverendKen t1_itequ74 wrote

The local hospital where I live prefers to kill their patients quickly.

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ReverendKen t1_itfz6ck wrote

Our local hospital is like none I have ever seen. They have a really bad reputation for giving terrible care that results in people not living through the experience. I will never go back and I warn people to go somewhere else.

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Mist_Rising t1_it9s8pc wrote

Doctor absolutely can police themselves, like lawyers they have a system within the system, and that system is very much a prickly thing if they want it to. The thing is both the bar and medical associations prefer they do the least possible because as if turns out policing yourself doesn't work out.

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TjW0569 t1_ita65e8 wrote

It could work. But for it to work, you have to accept that you will be periodically embarrassed by one of your coworkers.
Those professions are so in love with their own authority that they're never going to do that.

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danheskett2022 t1_itcjyjz wrote

The bar and it’s state chapters is really good at policing itself. Being disbarred is the quickest way to ruin your legal practice.

The AMA And state licensing boards are not nearly as effective because they also want to artificially keep turn number of doctors low, to keep wages high. It’s a classic cartel.

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peter-doubt t1_it9mzj4 wrote

This is the most accurate assessment 8ve heard from one source in years...

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