What happened to the prestige of physicians?

[pre med 2014]

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there are obvious perils of bureaucracy, but the belief that a free healthcare market will sufficiently self-regulate is extremely naive.

There are times when patient dignity, privacy, and autonomy can be compromised. Like when an HIV patient continues to have unprotected sex. The problem with government is that it gets way out of control, you cannot trust these people to evaluate human worth. Secondly, we have police to deal with situations such as above. The government is an imaginary institution, I have worked for a bureaucracy and it is a total joke, the work is literally pointless and imaginary.

Look at the DEA website, do you think it's a coincidence that half the doctors going to prison for 'prescribing pain killers to drug addicts' are Muslim? Who is the real criminal, the government officials? Or the doctor who would rather give a drug addict the oxy rather than let one patient in true need go without?

Don't be quick to trust these people, there is nothing they can do that cannot be more effectively solved at the local level and even by local state government.

 

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There are times when patient dignity, privacy, and autonomy can be compromised. Like when an HIV patient continues to have unprotected sex. The problem with government is that it gets way out of control, you cannot trust these people to evaluate human worth. Secondly, we have police to deal with situations such as above. The government is an imaginary institution, I have worked for a bureaucracy and it is a total joke, the work is literally pointless and imaginary.

Look at the DEA website, do you think it's a coincidence that half the doctors going to prison for 'prescribing pain killers to drug addicts' are Muslim? Who is the real criminal, the government officials? Or the doctor who would rather give a drug addict the oxy rather than let one patient in true need go without?.

 

[DocEspana]

There are times when patient dignity, privacy, and autonomy can be compromised. Like when an HIV patient continues to have unprotected sex. The problem with government is that it gets way out of control, you cannot trust these people to evaluate human worth. Secondly, we have police to deal with situations such as above. The government is an imaginary institution, I have worked for a bureaucracy and it is a total joke, the work is literally pointless and imaginary.

Look at the DEA website, do you think it's a coincidence that half the doctors going to prison for 'prescribing pain killers to drug addicts' are Muslim? Who is the real criminal, the government officials? Or the doctor who would rather give a drug addict the oxy rather than let one patient in true need go without?

Don't be quick to trust these people, there is nothing they can do that cannot be more effectively solved at the local level and even by local state government.

Inappropriate amount of fear/

Appropriate amount of fear.

 

[Xenops]

Here's a weird situation for you: students currently in nursing school or just graduated paid ME respect as a "future doctor" (not even accepted to med school yet). They even called me "doctor', to which I replied "not yet!"

I was telling one about how hard it was to find a medical-related job for a 7-month span, and she replied "why is that? You're so smart, you're practically a doctor!"

What? 😕