https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/the_canadian_health_care_myth.html

When you read about computer advances, remember 2001, the movie from ’68, was expecting much better human voice communication with computers. Maybe Siri or Alexa … in a few more years. Or decades.

Data entry should be by voice.

Montage says Dem friends:
“don’t want a health plan that makes a Medicare-for-all mandatory and tosses out private insurance all together.”
Well, those friends who support Sanders or Biden are supporting Medicare-for-all. Whether they “want” it, or not.

You support what you vote for. I used to not want Trump to tweet so much, but voted for him anyway. Now I’m OK with his actual tweets, plus there’s the game of seeing how Dem media is dishonest about what he actually tweets / says.

I don’t see a lot of details about Canada, Denmark, or Sweden’s “great” health care in terms of results. More folk from those countries come to the USA for health care than the reverse.

I flatly do NOT believe most doctors would quit, tho there might well be a big increase in going to part time.

My doctor trained wife in Slovakia, after having 3 kids (in 3 years), switched to become a Professor because family first. Plus Slovak socialized doctors in 1995 were getting paid about the same as janitors.

It’s generally good to have more part time workers who are almost full time mothers. Civilization needs more good mothers with husbands living with their children, and needs this more than single doctors, whether female or male.

Both in Slovakia, the EU, and the USA, there are not enough med schools. A huge need to reduce health costs is more doctors, which means more med schools. I’m certain the increase in numbers of Law Schools after WW II is far more than the increase in numbers of Med Schools, and graduates. I understand Trump is pushing a bit to get another med school, but I don’t hear much about it.

I like the idea. In the last eight years, most doctors I have visited have been pre-occupied with data entry during the course of the visit, in one case to the exclusion of everything else. This needs to stop. We send these people to medical school (170 credit-hours over four years), put them in residency for 3, 4, and 6 years, then put them in fellowships for two years. We need technicians with associate’s degrees to be handing the data entry and the correspondence with the insurance companies.

Research shows that almost 40% of women physicians go part-time or leave medicine altogether within six years of completing their residencies.

so you pay for more years of education than they actually work…
and now with so few men… well… thats going to be great

they fall in love with the image and everything, and are not realistic about it
to quote:

“I was burned out. I missed my kids and I never saw my husband,” Novitsky says. “Then a wild thing happened: I attended a retreat for women physicians and decided to become a certified life coach.”

“When you invest more than a decade of your life to learn a skill and you’re willing to walk away from that early in your career, that’s more than a red flag. It’s a burning fire.”
Sasha Shillcutt, MD

ever notice that the problem is everything for them? everything affects them negatively, they are a victim of being alive… nothing is as it should be, even after they rearrange it, its worse… eternally unhappy and dissatisfied… which as a wife kind of works to get the husband to do and get more, but as the subject, well, not so much

According to the research, within six years of completing training, 22.6% of women physicians were not working full-time compared to 3.6% of male physicians. The gap between men and women expands for those with and without children (30.6% versus 4.6%). That compares to 10% of physicians overall who were working part-time (30 hours or less) in 2018, according to a recent survey of nearly 700,000 physicians conducted by the research firm Merritt Hawkins.

in any other reality that would mean they are a bad investment comparatively
[and this has been known for a long time, at least in the mens areas, but we be evil and are never valid anyway]

“The emergence of this gap so early in physicians’ careers may contribute to later gender inequities in compensation and promotion and suggests the importance of expanding social and institutional support for work-family balance moving forward,” Frank says. “Until system-wide reforms are made within the institution of medicine to better support women in their roles as mothers and physicians, significant gender disparities in physician retention and advancement will persist.”

oh.. ok… without changing it, a small amount of the men leave, but women leave so the whole thing has to be revamped… great… thats efficient…

actually even if you make those changes they wont stay and the men will
why? they have options to leave and still live and survive and have family and men dont… ie… women can marry and be supported… men dont really get that, so they have no real choice…

if ya want the ladies to tough it out, take away those choices…
your never going to revamp it to match what they can get from not working..

Becoming a doctor requires extensive and expensive education followed by years of intense on-the-job training. The idea is that the time, hard work, and financial investment will pay off, not only in dollars and cents, but also in terms of job satisfaction. After all, doctors save lives, or at least improve them. Yet, after just a few years on the job, a growing number of women are walking away from full-time practice.

“People see the statistics and they think women are simply choosing family over their careers, but often there isn’t a choice,” Frank says. “When it comes to balancing a medical career and a family, our findings suggest that women physicians cut their work hours at substantially higher rates than men in an effort to reduce work-family conflict.”

who told them they could bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and so on?
besides, they arent having children in any great numbers given the (other) stats..
in fact, the up and comers cant even find mates… [and are freezing eggs]

despite the increasing number of women entering the medical workforce, women still take on an average of 8.5 hours more work at home each week than men. Married men with children worked 7 hours longer and spent 12 hours less per week on parenting or domestic tasks than women, the research shows.

[by the way, they dont count the work men do… ie. she does the house work, and his mowing the lawn isnt in the figures… it doesnt count… been like that for decades in case anyone wondered how come it never changes and remains a justification that no matter what they do, just doesnt go away]

my source? AAMC

then you have some of the ladies commenting about ladies..
[the mens comments fall on deaf ears… or get negative returns… ]

The transformed wife:
Women are Destroying the Medical Profession

if she was a man writing it everyone would yell that this was a MCPig…
but since she is religious… dont pay attention either..

“A 15-year follow-up of doctors after graduation showed that on average, after career breaks and part-time working are taken into account, women work 25 per cent less than their male counterparts. The problem, put starkly, is that the average male medical graduate will work full time, while the average female won’t. This means that the state will get more man-hours out of a male graduate than a female graduate.

“The problem is starting to affect both hospitals and primary care. Some 38 per cent of female consultants work part-time compared to five per cent of the men. Two thirds of GPs are women, with a large proportion opting for less than full time work. As medicine becomes a female-majority profession, this is only going to get worse.”

want to know why the men make more? you think the ‘studies’ make allowances for the amount of time and so on? of course not… those studies that do do that find no disparity… and you cant use that to revamp the whole field to make the nest suitable for birds

dont worry, is all the guys fault…
The female problem: how male bias in medical trials ruined women’s health
What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership

This past year, more women than men were enrolled in U.S. medical schools. Yet overall women make up only 34% of physicians in the U.S., and gender parity is still not reflected in medical leadership. Women account for only 18% of hospital CEOs and 16% of all deans and department chairs in the U.S.—positions that typically direct the mission and control the resources at medical centers.

https://hbr.org/2018/06/whats-holding-women-in-medicine-back-from-leadership
[none of it takes into account they leave… its just one long litany of everything is wrong and the men make it so]

anyone want to do the math as to how to employ people who dont stay long enough to rise up to a position with experience?

heck… we have to change the patients too.. one study is complaining that the patients are rude.. “Inappropriate/offensive words or actions from patients. 23%”

here is one from the lancet that you know from the title:
Why do women leave surgical training? A qualitative and feminist study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32612-6/fulltext

and they found six new problems in the never ending list of them
Six new contributing factors emerged: inaccessibility of leave, a distinction between valid and invalid reasons for leave, poor mental health, absence of interactions with other women in the surgery section and other supports, fear of repercussion, and insufficient pathways for independent and specific support.

a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges that “projected a shortage of 42,600 to 121,300 physicians by 2030, up from its 2017 projected shortage of 40,800 to 104,900 doctors.”

remember the changes since the 1968 revolution
but then again… blame it on all the politicians listening to the complainers and going in and ‘fixing’ it more and more and making it less and less… it was better before… i am old enough to remember when they made house calls…

So the OBGYN complaining about leaving really might leave anyway..
even without socialist medicine!!! the odds are that with other choices like a professional husband, she can just decide to halve the family money, and put the burden on him, and thats that… (its not uncommon for the two earner family to suddenly have her not earn and he be holding the bag without any say in it!!!)

well..
at least its interesting to watch.

Maybe the quality of the staff depends on the quality of their boss?

Per our Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for medical office clerks is $16.16 per hour, summing to $33,600 per year. They receive benefits atop that. Median wages for “Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop” are currently $10.74 per hour and sum to $22,330 in a typical year. I think McDonald’s franchises usually have benefit plans.

However, they are in charge of getting your medical records accurate

They may be in charge of assembling them according to protocol. They don’t edit them unless its a very peculiar place. AFAICR, neither coders nor analysts change content, either. Been out of the trade for a while.

unlike the fast food employees who never get the order right.

I’ve seen this happen. It’s an occasional problem with one place we frequent. I can hardly remember it happening anywhere else.

Resident care providers at assisted living centers also earn much less than $15.00 an hour. If you haven’t seen how hard these people work, caring for the unloved and forgotten you should spend a day in their shoes.

1. Median wage for nursing assistants is currently $13.72 an hour, summing to $28,500 a year. Pretty sure benefits packages are bog standard among nursing home staff and assisted living center staff.

2. I never mentioned nursing home staff or home health aides, so I have no clue why you brought it up except that you have your resentments.

3. I’ve seen them at work. I wasn’t dissatisfied globally. Some places have better institutional cultures than others. Some employees are more assiduous than others. My mother wasn’t unloved or forgotten, just too ruined physically and mentally for anything but 24 hour care. Perhaps there was an unloved or forgotten person on her floor, but I don’t know who it was. Plenty of family bustling in and out.

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There’s always variation from one situation to another and one person to another. That having been said, I’ve had too many bad experiences with medical office staff to think of it as an occupation with exemplary standards. In my experience, DMV clerks are vastly improved over what the standard was 40 years ago. Medical office staff, not so much. (This observation does not extend to dental practice employees, with whom I’ve not had trouble).

Most of the staff you are complaining about make the same wage as folks at McDonald’s. However, they are in charge of getting your medical records accurate unlike the fast food employees who never get the order right. Resident care providers at assisted living centers also earn much less than $15.00 an hour. If you haven’t seen how hard these people work, caring for the unloved and forgotten you should spend a day in their shoes.