Where Have All The Doctors Gone?
I have done no research on this topic other than personal experience. Being an old geezer, I regularly visit a number of doctors who specialize in various branches of medicine. Other than my G.P. doctor, I attend a cardiologist, an endocrinologist, a neurologist, and an urologist. Within the past year, the following has occurred: The endocrinologist sold his practice to another practice which has three locations in the area. The other three M.D.'s have retired. The endocrinologist's practice has been taken over by a group of Indian and Syrian doctors, who were educated overseas but got their board certifications and residencies in the USA. I have yet to find a replacement neurologist, however, my G.P. is doing a good job as a substitute. I have interviewed several urologists and so far, have I have not been satisfied. I did find a cardiologist. He is a young local man educated in Florida. He's not a M.D. but a D.O. However, his references are A1..
As my wife and I searched we had a revelation. There were in our area, hardly any American educated M.D.'s practicing in my here. As you all know, the internet is the mighty Wizard of Information who puts the whole world into my computer.At first, mainly out of curiosity, I tried to find American educated M.D.'s or at the very least a doctor who spoke English in a way that I could easily understand. I searched within my town, then adjacent towns, then cities further away. Finally, I wound up at the largest city in the area, but it was over 30 miles away.
Has anyone had a similar experience?Has becoming a M.D. lost its prestige or ability to produce income? Was Obamacare a contributing factor? What, if anything, is going on?
As my wife and I searched we had a revelation. There were in our area, hardly any American educated M.D.'s practicing in my here. As you all know, the internet is the mighty Wizard of Information who puts the whole world into my computer.At first, mainly out of curiosity, I tried to find American educated M.D.'s or at the very least a doctor who spoke English in a way that I could easily understand. I searched within my town, then adjacent towns, then cities further away. Finally, I wound up at the largest city in the area, but it was over 30 miles away.
Has anyone had a similar experience?Has becoming a M.D. lost its prestige or ability to produce income? Was Obamacare a contributing factor? What, if anything, is going on?
May your memories be glad ones offsetting any sadness.
Todd and wishing you happy memories.
Warm regards,
DOB
We should be working on that. We won't solve in my lifetime, but I think we will eventually.
"3:1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
3:2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
3:5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
3:8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
3:9 What hath man more of his labour?
3:10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
3:11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
3:12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
3:13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
3:14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.
3:15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
3:16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
3:17 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
3:18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
3:19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.
3:20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
3:21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
3:22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him? "
And yet the idiots keep on living
Upon a peak in Darien
The sage renounced his fellow man
His fellow man he did renounce
And leapt and lit and didn't bounce"
No - honestly...Through medical issues with my son I came to know the staff at a local facility that does hyperbaric (pure oxygen) treatments. They treat retired NFL players, soldiers with lots of experience around artillery guns, and a local MMA fighter (Uriah Faber). They already set me as straight as they can and we are keeping an eye on the ole noodle. Thanks. And, I have been reading of gluten and joint pain(?) Learning every day...
Thanks.
I should know. By 16 I was bad to the bone.
During the 60s in Dothan, Alabama, smokers liked to say that Marlboros would make you sterile.
Marlboro TV commercials played The Magnificent Seven music at that time.
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