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Pharmacists aren't middlemen. They are licensed healthcare providers with a critical role in patient care that goes beyond just handing over pill bottles.
That may describe the professionals training and intended role in the ecosystem, but it does not describe most patients' experience of the pharmacist.
I'm surprised there was no mention about insurance and billing requirements, etc.
Yeah, that surprised me, too. At one time in my life, I considered becoming a doctor, and had even started to take some of the required undergraduate coursework required to apply to medical school (organic chemistry, biology, etc.) I started to talk to doctors about my choice, and nearly all of them advised me not to go into medicine and often went into a long rant about dealing with insurance companies, billing issu…
But we are men of ethical scruples. I've dropped out of multiple grad programs due to witnessing academic fraud committed by students and professors working in tandem to keep money flowing into administrators who believe it is their utmost responsibility to perform a Nietzschean transvaluation of all values until a hauntingly extreme vices become considered virtues.
If I picked the medical profession, it would be because it would be so motivating to me to work in a highly motivating high-stakes environment where finding the moral thing to do is not so everloving exhausting.
Then have a statist regime begin to intimidate and relentlessly attempt to suborn you into destroying the voice of your conscience and the essential goodness of the caring profession is utterly lost.
After leaving a university just a few credits shy of a degree due to learning that university administrators have knowingly destroyed the value of their degree by handing out 50% of their CS degrees to people the professors consider completely incompetent, I was not tempted in the slightest when the university attempted to bribe me with a full scholarship for their Ph.D. program and a guaranteed tenure track teaching job.
Why the hell would I want to perpetuate the scam of a completely decadent educational husk? I am terrified that misuse and/or ignorant design of the internet is threatening our social health; it is destroying the quality of people's education in return for monetary "profit". EDUCATION IS PROFIT IN ITSELF, money is merely potential energy that may help or hinder us toward enlightenment.
So this is why our "education" system is actually a "maleducation" system: universities as founded were dedicated to making the best possible people, but they are now committed to making the most possible profit.
Having been privy to the coarse reality of about 20 students who survived 5 years of medical school, followed by FY1, FY2, and junior positions in the NHS, the intellectualized "best effort" mulling-over in the article couldn't be further away from reality.
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Yeah, that surprised me, too. At one time in my life, I considered becoming a doctor, and had even started to take some of the required undergraduate coursework required to apply to medical school (organic chemistry, biology, etc.) I started to talk to doctors about my choice, and nearly all of them advised me not to go into medicine and often went into a long rant about dealing with insurance companies, billing issu…
Same here. My father is a veterinarian, and we have many family friends who are doctors, and they all drove me away from going into medical practice. It is a tragic waste, because my brain is not compatible with many jobs, but medicine as practiced from the 90s back would have been up my bailiwick, as it gave my father, who shares most of my neuroatypical quirks, tremendous upward mobility. But we are men of ethical…
A book I’ve read some time ago - “Reinventing organizations” gave me back a little bit of hope for humanity, and they did detail an alternative school in germany that had all the real things a school should have - above all a passion for making its students the best, most honesf and awesome people it can.
Anyway just wnated to mention that places like this still exist, so they are possible.
I'm surprised there was no mention about insurance and billing requirements, etc.
Yeah, that surprised me, too. At one time in my life, I considered becoming a doctor, and had even started to take some of the required undergraduate coursework required to apply to medical school (organic chemistry, biology, etc.) I started to talk to doctors about my choice, and nearly all of them advised me not to go into medicine and often went into a long rant about dealing with insurance companies, billing issu…
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Yeah, that surprised me, too. At one time in my life, I considered becoming a doctor, and had even started to take some of the required undergraduate coursework required to apply to medical school (organic chemistry, biology, etc.) I started to talk to doctors about my choice, and nearly all of them advised me not to go into medicine and often went into a long rant about dealing with insurance companies, billing issu…
Our doctor who delivered our second child some 13 years ago told us he had to deliver (if I recall) 3 babies a week minimum to pay for medical malpractice insurance and he had never payed out on a malpractice lawsuit. The insurance is crazy.
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This jumped out at me. "Abortion was originally intended to be performed in limited circumstances only, but now has become an inalienable right in any circumstances whatever—into which, indeed, it is impermissible to inquire." followed coyly a paragraph later by "This, of course, would have the corollary that mass murder by doctors would in theory be permissible, or even obligatory."
I do not believe the author was trying to be coy, but you are eliding the paragraph which gives the correct context to the latter statement: > Moreover, though we pay lip service as a society to diversity and tolerance, we increasingly demand uniformity. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine argued that doctors should not be permitted to opt out of performing procedures that they considered unethica…
Ultimately, the patient is the most important person in medicine, the doctor comes second. This is not the law, this is medical ethics.
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Yeah, that surprised me, too. At one time in my life, I considered becoming a doctor, and had even started to take some of the required undergraduate coursework required to apply to medical school (organic chemistry, biology, etc.) I started to talk to doctors about my choice, and nearly all of them advised me not to go into medicine and often went into a long rant about dealing with insurance companies, billing issu…
Same here. My father is a veterinarian, and we have many family friends who are doctors, and they all drove me away from going into medical practice. It is a tragic waste, because my brain is not compatible with many jobs, but medicine as practiced from the 90s back would have been up my bailiwick, as it gave my father, who shares most of my neuroatypical quirks, tremendous upward mobility. But we are men of ethical…
This must really be tough on doctors. I have a few people in my life who love seeking out medical advice but rarely follow it.
"You have to help me doc, I'll do anything!"
"Ok, do X"
"Well anything but that."