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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by conanbatt on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:44AM (#13938918)
This is related to one of the least favoured policy changes Milton Friedman wanted to make: remove medical licenses.

There are plenty of tasks doctors are commanded with that do not require mastery level of expertise, and that enormously raises the cost of medicine. You dont need to study 10 years to read an EKG, someone could learn all the EKG patterns in a much shorter time.

A funny story about this in argentina: anesthesiologists earn more money than surgeons. Surgeons are not unionized, but anesthesiologists are.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by emodendroket on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:34AM (#13939544)
In the US increasingly NPs and PAs are being used instead of regular doctors for primary care.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by 0322317_anes on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:52AM (#13939281)
I have never heard that anesthesiologists make anywhere close to what specialized surgeons make.

Where are you getting this information from?

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by conanbatt on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:44AM (#13939628)
Surgeons and anesthesiologists in Argentina. Is a famous trade quirk here. I think surgeons cannot unionize by law, but anesthesiologists can, but im not sure about that.
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