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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by neaden on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:18PM (#22056078)
I think this is the key, so much of of the problems physicians face were created by physician and their own lobbying. American Physicians are paid more then other countries by a lot [1] in large part because of high educational requirements that were supported by physicians. Resident burn out is awful, but the people pushing them to work insane hours aren't the hospital administrators, but older physicians who have the attitude that they went through it too. It's really hard for a physician from another country to immigrate to the US and practice, restrictions supported by, you guessed it, physicians!

If you really want to lower physician burn out and decrease health costs we need to increase the supply of physicians in this country, and you'll have to fight the existing physicians to do it.

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010....

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by naveen99 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:36PM (#22056255)
American software developers also get paid multiples of their non-us counterparts. Same with many other professions.
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by neaden on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:46PM (#22056366)
As mentioned it's way easier for software developers to immigrate to the US, and there is no organization limiting the number of software engineers trained into the profession every year. There is an additional confounder in that the biggest and highest paying software companies are all located in the US and exporting products throughout the world, which is not how it works with physicians.
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:43PM (#22056319)
Except there is no organization limiting the number of software developers. In fact, I can't think of another field out there with so many free resources for one to educate and prove themselves a capable programmer.
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by naveen99 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:55PM (#22057199)
Nurses make more in the us, then most doctors outside the us. There is a shortage of people in general in the usa, and we have the INS artificially limiting immigration for everyone.
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by Scoundreller on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:27PM (#22056890)
Also don’t forget about resistance to becoming employees, but then complaining about the protections/advantages afforded to employees.
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