‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’
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I suppose that’s fair, yes.
But I also think that it grossly oversimplifies how easy it is to cure literally anything over the course of the entire human race. I don’t think that most doctors are deliberately slow-footing their jobs to stay in business.
I think that it’s more that diseases don’t just go away, that the only things we’ve truly cured usually involve vaccines (and we know how popular those are), and that some doctors just aren’t good at their jobs.
To me, that’s more an argument that medicine shouldn’t be a business than suspiciously eyeballing the doctors themselves. Considering how much of the medical school application involves your ability to pay for the process, the college classes, the EC stuff, the test prep, and for medical school itself, it’s no wonder our talent pool is mostly limited to who can afford to take on a job that requires altruism than who would be truly qualified for the job.
Not to mention, a lot of people are attracted to the medical field simply for the money, and not for any noble reasons like wanting to truly help someone. I think you would get doctors who were more dedicated to helping people if they didn't make so much money -- this would weed out some of the greedy doctors.
Absolutely. But that means removing the cost for medical school and drastically curbing how medical malpractice works, because it does cost a fortune to be a doctor in the US.
When you get down to it, ALL colleges need to be more affordable.
Medical malpractice fees would probably go down if, instead of covering for those bad doctors, they actually pulled their licenses -- permanently. I'm sure a lot of this gets swept under the carpet. And, on the other side of the coin, there are probably a lot of people crying wolf on the doctors just to get some money. There should be reasonable limits to how much money they get, but only if they truly deserve it.