Ignore me because my white coat is short.
All the nurses in my hospitals are lazy ****s. They don't take labs when they're ordered so they never get done unless I go draw them myself. I got a paralyzed lady with a giant 17 inch wide decubitus ulcer that needs to be turned frequently but lazy nurses wont do it so this patient's going to die in the hospital for no reason. I have to draw blood and put in IVs and change dressings in our patients. I used to respect nurses before starting clinical rotations smh
Is that why all the ones that have been around for a few years seem to gain so much weight?
Or cut out administrative costs. Physician compensation is a mere 8% of healthcare spending, while administrative costs are 25.3% of it. That's completely and utterly bat**** insane.
You must be on the West Coast or in NYC. The vast majority of nurses aren't unionized- only 16.5% of them are union members.
But by that logic, attendings have earned no higher level of education and are usually working less hours than residents, and thus should be paid less than residents. Unless residents are in subsidized training, in which case they should be paid less...
I dont mind the pharma ceo making that much. I do have a problem with hospital admins and med school admins making millions though. These people literally do not meaningfully contribute to providing the actual care and make out like pirates. At the very least, the pharm ceo directs develop of a meaningful product (most of the time). Lawyers and administrators are real dead weight in this system.
Do you think Teachers are going to become a largely unneeded profession given modern technology? Has anyone ever thought about that? Literally with prerecorded lectures and complex interactive software and hardware, why do we need people delivering live in person lectures to every child in the country?
You'd be surprised. While a lot of middle managers play with cogs often to just look busy and don't actually improve anything much, CEOs, CMOs, and CFOs can substantially affect the viability of a hospital system. I used to work for the only profitable system in the entire state. That was largely due to much cleverness and forward thinking by our brilliant, educated, and well-connected C-level management. I knock their salaries, but the truth is, we'd lose a lot more than the 10 million they get between them if we were to replace them with some schmuck off the street.
Your decision to write off a whole profession based off a whole profession based on your experiences, which sound biased to say the least.
Or the govt can get out of medicine....
