This past year, numerous people have informed me that physicians in the DC area are walking away from practices in large numbers. Although this is reported anecdotally, patients trying to find pediatricians, pulmonologists, allergists, psychiatrists, and other specialties are having an increasingly hard time finding them. A few docs have moved out of the area. Many of them are retiring, sometimes abruptly. Others are reporting they're "taking a break" from practice, and still others are just walking away, leaving their staff to tell patients they don't know where the docs went.
A number of ER docs have left the area as a result of the taking over of ER facilities by larger medical practices, who focus on using less expensive nurse practitioners to staff them (with considerably less training) to reduce cost while encouraging them to order more expensive tests to increase profit.This is leaving some seriously ill patients out in the lurch without having the care properly transitioned.
Don't have any hard numbers on this, but reports of this are way more than they've been in the past. It has a feel of panic...
The ER docs are vital. The rest are unneeded. People need to learn why they get sick and what "dis-ease" really is. Then we can be left with exclusively ER/trauma doctors and surgeons only. Timeline? My guess is approximately 15 years.
All things being equal, I would respectfully suggest we keep the surgeons. I don't think very highly of most of the medical profession, but the arena of surgery is the one that I solidly do. Technical proficiency in surgery is the one arena in which western medicine has outstripped all previous medical communities.
We only need like 1% of them for trauma/emergency situations. 99% of surgeries are unnecessary.
I'm sure your numbers are accurate, but trauma is pretty much the only thing I ever really am concerned with. I don't bother with western medicine and haven't seen an MD since 1999. Injury and trauma were the only things I was desperate to avoid for my two trips to Iraq in 2004 and 2008.
In terms of combat and deployment, you would indeed need virtually all the surgeons on hand as none of the above situations would be routine.
Agreed. Most surgeries today are either elective and/or unnecessary if the MDs understood health and wellness. But they've been profoundly miseducated. You are wise to avoid them under all but the most critical situations.
Perfect health is our natural state. When your health is out of balance it normally means you have been through a "conflict shock" of some sort - fear, worry, scare, anger, separation, loss, self-devaluation, indigestible life situations, injustice, attacked, etc. When these situations are experienced your subconscious mind (psyche) makes adjustments to specific organs and tissues to help you get through your unresolved conflict, during which they typically perform better then normal. But when you resolve your conflict, the psyche restores these organs/tissues back to their normal functioning and in today's world, this is what we call "dis-ease". Which is a normal bodily process.
Should you leave things alone and follow your instinct, homeostasis would soon be achieved. But unfortunately we've all been brainwashed into running to a doctor to "fix" the problem, to suppress the symptoms, to stifle the pain, etc. And this is when all the REAL problems with health start for the 99%. As it is the misguided and harmful interventions that doctors have been taught that lead to the bigger problems most people have with their health.
Our body/mind/psyche are never wrong. Humans, on the other hand....
Surgeons and anesthesiologists.
Sometimes you just need a plumber.
And I'd like to see the end of Rockefeller medicine. Back to the old-school doctors.
We'd be healthier. Docs would be happier.