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Most people work for money so I would take all this with a grain of salt. If you are a RN what are you going to do if not nursing? The same applies to all fields including Physicians.
While it's anecdote, every single peer in bedside medical care I know without exception has either left the field, or has immediate plans to as soon as student loan debt is repaid. The few older medical professionals in my family are simply sticking out the last few years until they can retire early. This was generally the case prior to pandemic due to how poor the work environment has become, but the pandemic seems…
I would bet it's caused by:
- stifling bureaucracy
- hostile legal climate
- massive start up costs
The only winning move is not to play. Let the system fall apart and join on the later upswing. The unfortunate part is all the needless suffering people will endure during this process.
High stress environment, stagnant wages unless you're a travel nurse, underappreciated during the pandemic, and having friends turn on you because they associate you with some crazy conspiracy theory. These are all reasons I've heard of career nurses quitting and going into other industries.
I'm trying to think of how any of those can be solved with "technology" :-/
There's just something masochist about their profession.
High stress environment, stagnant wages unless you're a travel nurse, underappreciated during the pandemic, and having friends turn on you because they associate you with some crazy conspiracy theory. These are all reasons I've heard of career nurses quitting and going into other industries.
A family friend was talking to a doctor who was considering quitting. The reason why, at least for that doctor, wasn't really the stress from patients. It was all the damned paperwork and the stress that created.
1. A few doctors left practices after they got taken over by a bigger entity and the hoops they had to jump trough weren't worth it, so they retired.
2. The insurance companies - they control EVERYTHING. One thing that happens a lot is that they don't allow her to order an MRI unless she orders an X-Ray first - even if what they're testing for wouldn't show up on an X-Ray. And this slows down the process of diagnosis by days. There are more examples of things like this - things that should be up to the provider, but end up being up to the insurance company (what drug to prescribe or what treatment to pursue first) - it makes no sense (at least from what I hear from her).
Considering it was bothersome for both healthcare workers and the public, in my opinion the friction is more between the healthcare workers and management/government entities (& their policies) rather than "some patient bothered me" cases.
U.S. nursing salaries relative to average U.S. wages are above the OECD average: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2017-58-en... So pay isn't the problem. The U.S. is also above the OECD average for the number of nurses per 1000 population: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334515420/figure/fi... So staffing isn't the problem either. The U.S. is below the OECD average for the number of doctors…
While it's anecdote, every single peer in bedside medical care I know without exception has either left the field, or has immediate plans to as soon as student loan debt is repaid. The few older medical professionals in my family are simply sticking out the last few years until they can retire early. This was generally the case prior to pandemic due to how poor the work environment has become, but the pandemic seems…
Everything is controlled by insurance companies. You can’t do anything unless it’s exactly how insurance wants and only for what insurance will pay.
It limits everything, including how every profession can be compensated simply because you can’t easily hire somebody for more than what insurance will pay for their services. You can, but the funds have to come from somewhere.