Where is your evidence for this? Interesting view to take, and it stinks of this victim culture narrative which is seeping through society. "Option D happened only because X was mean, nasty, and disrespectful".
I completely disagree with you and I challenge you to provide evidence that this "lash out" is the fault of physicians.
The part I do agree with is the lack of physician in leadership roles to help establish policy. We certainly need more influence in the political realm, because the AMA certainly does not reflect the thoughts of many docs.
I don't think this is an "angry lash out" because of anything that physicians have done, I'm sorry if the tone made it appear that way. I'm not claiming to be an expert by any means. I know many PAs and NPs, who are all very respectful of physicians and are great providers in their own right, and don't care so much about independent practice, but I also live in NY where they're a bit more limited. So, anecdotally I don't see individual mid-levels angrily lashing out against Physicians.
But, there is a lot of propaganda against physicians by the heads of these organizations that are pandering on the fears of Americans about healthcare in order to increase their power/authority and sometimes this does require bringing into light some problems Physicians have:
- Physicians are "cold" and "don't spend time with patients" - This is why you need the "heart of the nurse" treating you.
- Physicians have "unexplainably high salaries" driving the cost of healthcare up - This is why you need lower salaried people giving care, and
"because they don't earn as much, they must truly be doing it out of their own benevolence".
- Physicians are "motivated by pharmaceutical companies" to over-prescribe - This is why you need "holistic nurses" to prevent chronic illness, oh, and essential oils.
- Physicians caused the "opioid epidemic" - Meanwhile "holistic nurses" would have avoided this by promoting more "community wellness".
These organizations have never come out straight and said a lot of these things, so you're right, I cannot provide "evidence" this is back lash - but you can see subtly in propaganda and people's views on social media.
Whenever a Physician merely defends themselves, it is always made to seem like the "big giant" is just hurting the "little guy who wants nothing more than to help" for no better reason other than "controlling their turf" when in reality it is about patient safety - but they scoff at that and will post a 20 year old research study about how NP and PCP data is equal in 200 patients.
And even if many insurance companies/big hospitals don't agree with anything that NPs say, they'll still pander to them because this means more cost-savings for the people at the top.
We live in a world now where I will frequently get Ads about "best careers in America" and for ****s and giggles I'll check it out. 140k salary for a software engineer at Google. What will be in the comments? 10,000s of comments about how "They don't deserve so much money" "The disparity in America is horrible" etc etc.
I'm not saying this is a good argument for my case, but it does demonstrate how easy it is to demonize Physicians in this new American culture that demonizes high earners when "your neighbors barely can afford healthcare" - and midlevel organizations are in the perfect position to capitalize on this.
