"Mega Clinics" do not help either. Large practices ran by spreadsheets and implicit in pharma shilling. Mediocre doctors who like being told what to do by administration as they're not in the field due to personal passion, but for security. The amount of horseshit these people doll out to genuinely ill patients is astounding. I've long since left all these practices, the last one being a large endocrinologist arm of a "faith based organization" when it was apparent early on in the Fauxvid crisis that they were using it as an excuse for cost cutting (mandatory virtual sign ins, payments and visits to reduce low level admin staff costs.)
Small practices are the way to go... And even then you'll often want to see the ARNP as opposed to the Doctor.
Finance has ruined SO many aspects of modern medicine. It's literally killing people and has been for years.
In large practices, I definitely won't put the majority on the docs. Most of them don't know any better (they're honestly just not that bright) and I've had quite a few who were just as disillusioned as myself but choose to remain out of, let's be real, fear. I won't call it cowardice because man needs to earn a living. But I was faced with the same dilema in a different sector (ironically, finance) and bailed. Now that I reflect on it, had I stayed my actions could have ending up causing just as much harm via forming the system on the back end, via finance.
Sorry for the rant. :) It's been a long day. I'm coming to terms that I'm an armchair economist who kind of hates capitalism. Even though advances it brought about keep me alive. (T1). And if you can't tell, it's always comforting to talk to a Doc who gets it. o/
"Mega Clinics" do not help either. Large practices ran by spreadsheets and implicit in pharma shilling. Mediocre doctors who like being told what to do by administration as they're not in the field due to personal passion, but for security. The amount of horseshit these people doll out to genuinely ill patients is astounding. I've long since left all these practices, the last one being a large endocrinologist arm of a "faith based organization" when it was apparent early on in the Fauxvid crisis that they were using it as an excuse for cost cutting (mandatory virtual sign ins, payments and visits to reduce low level admin staff costs.)
Small practices are the way to go... And even then you'll often want to see the ARNP as opposed to the Doctor.
Finance has ruined SO many aspects of modern medicine. It's literally killing people and has been for years.
In large practices, I definitely won't put the majority on the docs. Most of them don't know any better (they're honestly just not that bright) and I've had quite a few who were just as disillusioned as myself but choose to remain out of, let's be real, fear. I won't call it cowardice because man needs to earn a living. But I was faced with the same dilema in a different sector (ironically, finance) and bailed. Now that I reflect on it, had I stayed my actions could have ending up causing just as much harm via forming the system on the back end, via finance.
Sorry for the rant. :) It's been a long day. I'm coming to terms that I'm an armchair economist who kind of hates capitalism. Even though advances it brought about keep me alive. (T1). And if you can't tell, it's always comforting to talk to a Doc who gets it. o/