Most Passive Group of Professionals

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I understand that most physician's get into medicine to help people and that the bureucratic/policy side of medicine does not attract most. However, as professionals how/why have physicians allowed for politicians/insurance companies to largely dictate the future of medicine? This passiveness has been responsible, in part, to the lower reimbursement rates that physicians are continually forced to face.

 

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1. Politicians and interest groups control the vast majority of professional fields;
2. Imo physicians should NOT be dictating the future of medicine. Their experience is useful and should be heard by policymakers, but the average practionner has no clue what kind of a beast health care is and have no business running it (and remember that physicians constitute a minority of the health care force);
3. IIRC physicians aren't getting pay cuts overall. The average and median earning goes up every year, and faster than inflation.