The 1788 Doctors' Riot
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The 1788 Doctors' Riot
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#2I was surprised not to see any mention of Burke & Hare under the “See Also” section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
These guys started out doing roughly the same as those doctors - robbing freshly dug graves for anatomical study - but they moved on to killing to provide the bodies instead. Pretty grim
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#3Fascinating. It is quite shocking to read about our world not so long ago. I did dissection at university from a cadavar donated for education. We attended a service afterwards, prior to the cremation. I was very grateful to have the chance to learn from it in a way that would have been almost impossible using prosections or models.
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#4I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021.
2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care.
I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
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#5 No doctors actually rioted; thus the title words Doctors' Riot seems strange
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#6I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021. 2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care. I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
Strictly this problem is fairly local to the US - other countries manage to not have an engineered shortage of medically trained folks, and provide general, non-bankrupting, insurance schemes to pay them for their expertise.
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#7I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021. 2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care. I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
I would look up the ladder before blaming physicians. It's not the high salary of the doctor that's inflated the cost of medical care. It's insurance, middlemen, overpaid administrators, and the general move to for-profit medicine that's to blame in my experience. Doctors make good money, but they also go through 8 years of expensive schooling to get there and are often just making ends meet for years after school.
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#8No doctors actually rioted; thus the title words Doctors' Riot seems strange
I agree. The implication is the opposite of reality, and I can't help but feel it's intentional.
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#9I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021. 2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care. I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
I would look up the ladder before blaming physicians. It's not the high salary of the doctor that's inflated the cost of medical care. It's insurance, middlemen, overpaid administrators, and the general move to for-profit medicine that's to blame in my experience. Doctors make good money, but they also go through 8 years of expensive schooling to get there and are often just making ends meet for years after school.
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#10I'd love a good riot against Physicians in 2021. 2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care. I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
I would look up the ladder before blaming physicians. It's not the high salary of the doctor that's inflated the cost of medical care. It's insurance, middlemen, overpaid administrators, and the general move to for-profit medicine that's to blame in my experience. Doctors make good money, but they also go through 8 years of expensive schooling to get there and are often just making ends meet for years after school.
Everything's part of the problem. It's why it's so hard to find "the thing" that causes high US healthcare costs. Every single part of it is more expensive than it should be, including doctors, and it all adds up to a system that's way more expensive than it should be, without any single entity or group being responsible for most of the problem.