https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/03/15/unless-we-future-proof-healthcare-study-shows-that-by-2025-75-of-healthcare-workers-will-leave-the-profession/?sh=6314de952bcb
You know, last time I needed to go to the hospital I sometimes waited 1-2 hours for a doctor. It's frustrating being told that under socialism you'll have long lines (maybe true!?) but like bruh then you go to the hospital (in a medium sized city btw) and it's like "oh we only have two doctors working urgent care right now"
bruh
"In socialism you'll have to wait in a line!"
Cool, sounds infinitely better than ignoring all of my problems, never seeing a doctor, and hoping the problems magically go away on their own.
We believe doctors and healthcare professionals aren't supposed to leave medicine, as it's a calling and profession for life. There are challenges, but the satisfaction of helping others in need, along with the social status and compensation, made healthcare workers proud.
Uh yeah we think that “once you’re here you’re here forever” and shouldn’t complain because your social status (which we have a direct hand in changing btw) and maybe 1/2 entry level tech worker compensation are enough to get you to throw yourself in front of COVID bullets for the unvaccinated. Also we’re going to browbeat you with “don’t you like helping others in need? Wouldn’t it be selfish to leave?”
Just in time for the cancer I've certainly got from growing up down the street from industrial processing facilities to emerge!
In nursing, management doesn’t care about patients because they’ll never implement the actual practices that are known to help patient care like lowering the number of patients nurses need
That is truly some jokerifcation juice right there.
The profession is seeing a squeeze already from the boomers retiring and becoming patients and instead of new nurses to replace them, the rate of new nurses is drying up not only because there aren’t enough programs to get new nurses, but people aren’t willing to jump into the field anymore. When there’s a new innovation or someone leaves, the rest of the team is expected to pick up the slack of the person that left.
Dear lord I hate neoliberalism or whatever economic term describes this. Pick the slack with no extra compensation, literally more work at less pay (because you're doing more at the same rate).
If the doctor fucks up you’re supposed to catch it if you have anything to do with it, pharmacy fucks up, it’s your job to catch it, blood bank fucks up, it’s your responsibility. I get it, you can’t just mindlessly do the job,
If this were any other “industry” there would be safeguards that would protect nurse, rather than blaming them.
Everything you wrote just makes my blood boil, which I can't afford because there won't be a nurse to help with my blood boil-itis
I just work in a care home and the short time I've been there I've seen nine people leave. This is out of about twelve carer staff total.
I've had to train people to do a job I've not even spent a year doing.
Shit's bad. Burnout is high. Can't even imagine what COVID peak was like.
I've had situations like this working retail where the biggest worry about messing up is your register not adding up. Cannot imagine this model applied to anything healthcare related, it's criminal
Healthcare of all things never should have become an “industry”. This exactly what happens when an “industry” doesn't care about its workers. Healthcare workers of all stripes deserve so much more than they receive. It's vile that healthcare is governed by the vampire money holders who siphon out value, not the people who actually know how to deliever healthcare services. It's sucks so much that a bank has a greater say over a hospital's functionality, more than the healthcare workers themselves. The money-guys aren't the ones saving lives, they shouldn't have shit to say on how to organize a healthcare facility. The vampires are the ones cause the burn out.
Gutting unemployment benefits and burying the idea of loan forgiveness to keep Millennials and Zoomers on the grind?
Hollowing out regulations surrounding health care work so that totally inexperienced and unqualified people are free to fill positions as warm bodies?
Trying to outsource and automate skilled labor with clumsily implemented tech gadgets in order to keep locations open with fewer and fewer workers on staff?
A Wisconsin Hospital Sued to Keep Medical Workers From Taking Better Jobs
I absolutely think they will.
They will call in the national guard to serve as scabs, like always. That’s basically all they exist for at this point
They'll try. But its not like the National Guard rosters are overflowing, either.
I had a really bad experience at the doctor's office yesterday.
In the 3 months between signing up for a marketplace plan and going to the first available appointment, they stopped accepting my plan (which I pay $463 each month for). I had to pay $125 out of pocket for the visit. My doctor could not proscribe my current medication without insurance authorization.
I have to switch medication because I've been on this one too long and it will eventually cause liver damage. It's an incurable chronic autoimmune disease with bad symptoms so I need some kind of treatment. There is another medication but it has no generic and costs $27,000 per year and also has nasty side effects.
I'm legitimately considering woo healing and just trying to live my healthiest life as an alternative to healthcare. Will the extra $500+ I save each month contribute more to my wellbeing than insurance is providing? Serious question.
incurable chronic autoimmune disease
I bet (while being no expert in the field) that your disease is stoppable, reversable or even fully curable with a couple years or even just months of approprate diet and maybe some other lifestyle adjustments. The problem is that the average doctor is trained to sell chemistry and - even when not financially motivated - see pills and stuff as solutions to everything, at least from my experience.
There is so many places i could "send" you to, no idea...say maybe try spending a couple hours on https://nutritionfacts.org/ using search by keywords typical for your disease!?
How long until we see articles asking whether euthanasia is a more efficient alternative to healthcare
I'm sure that's probably because COVID is over and things are chill and not because a mass exodus from the profession has meant there's no more nurses at the end of their rope left to post
So my spouse works for a local college in the medical department and she's been telling me doctors and nurses, PAs and MAs are quitting in record numbers from the stress and harassment. It's getting absolutely nuts but I guess that's something they might want, so they can make medical positions into gig ones
Ah, the gig economy. Where it costs $50 to take a cab across town because investors are no longer willing to subsidize a failed business model.
