Hell. This is hell.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's a good thing we've walled off an attending physician position behind 10+ years of schooling that costs $250k+, famous for its spike in burnout and suicides at the resident level where they're making nothing and working constantly. Just in time for the survivors of these severe COVID cases to need lifelong multi-specialist treatment. Just in time for the massive backlog of cases people have been putting off for two years, making the issues more serious and requiring more treatment. Just in time for the next pandemic we're less capable of responding to.

    :marx-joker:

    • PrideBoy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Bring a doctor is like going through an insane hazing to be in a frat.

      I can think of no better way to deliver healthcare to people :doomjak:

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Really wish the phrase "physician shortage" would break through more in mainstream discourse. The AMA artificially makes it harder for the US to produce medical professionals. We don't have enough doctors or medical schools in the US.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Nursing in this country is also atrocious. $50k to get a BSN at my local state university with scholarships that double as toilet paper. $20k for an LPN, $1k for the cheapest corporate CNA course. I've worked with patient:provider ratios of 20:1 and that was just accepted. For that wage, for double that wage, I wouldn't risk my life doing the job again knowing that it will only get worse. That city and anywhere within driving distance of that school has priced students out of living there unless they also have full-time jobs, which pay a whopping $14/hr at most unless you want to work manufacturing/Amazon without class availability.

        Social murder. Every fucking person responsible for the healthcare system should line the Via Appia as a warning to future generations.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      3 years ago

      I doubt they'll even bother with that. I think they want everyone to get infected, because they think it'll end the pandemic.

      • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        That's absolutely what everyone is banking on, now that Omicron appears to be less deadly. Can't wait for the spring when we get hit with another Delta-level or worse variant and it's immediately obvious that they opted to just sacrifice everyone to Omicron on a hunch.

      • FirstToServe [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        They're not going to do a single thing now that the vaccine is out and all pain caused by the pandemic can be considered "You get what you deserve" with lots of resentment towards anti-mask/trumpers to fuel it

        Maybe just maybe you'll hear some lip service about giving tax deductions on college loan interest payments for nurses and doctors when the healthcare system truly and utterly collapses