Typhoon Exactly…. And these doctors/ whatever do nothing anymore. I could do what they do honestly. Check my eyes, ears nose thoat. Stethoscope, take a deep breath, take another deep breath. That’s it…. Someone else does the Pulse, BP amd O2saturation.
We have a history of heart disease.. she’s never done an ekg… old doctor always did
He would check my prostate, she doesn’t believe in it…. So where am I today??? Urologist because the colonoscopy guy said it was very enlarged…. Something SHE would have known maybe a few years ago??
Yeah, I'm old enough (maybe you too) to remember doctors that made house calls. Or at least knew you if you ran into them in a grocery store etc.. Now you could've seen them last week and ran into them and they wouldn't know you.
Somewhere along the line it all became about making money and assembly line doctoring became the norm. See as many patients you can to maximize profits. In and out.
Most doctors when I was young were independent. They may be affiliated with a hospital, but weren't part of a huge conglomerate like today.
The doctor I mentioned that I had down here for 20 years, but left to just do marijuana was a part of a big medial conglomerate BayCare. Several years ago he and one of his partners in the office left BayCare
They went independent. They didn't like the way they were micromanaged. They couldn't even fire someone in their office. Fast forward a few years and he tells me he's sold his practice and will work for a new conglomerate, Wellcare.
I said thought you didn't like being micromanaged by a conglomerate telling you what type paintings you could have in your office and what type medical instruments you could use etc..
He said I don't, but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. lol Fast forward a few years and we get a letter in the mail saying he's leaving his primary care practice to go do just a marijuana practice, which is all cash, no insurance.
My wife still sees him for that with her Meniere's disease. Anyway, my grandfather who was a pharmacist saw this coming years ago.
He's the same guy who when we drove into Boston pointed out who had the tallest buildings. The insurance companies. So yeah, the cost of medical care has gone up drastically. But medical outcomes have not kept pace.
