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Re:Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out... by zozbot234 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:38PM (#22752105)
The amount of medical capacity around is very much a function of "status quo" institutions and frameworks. Maybe not billing per se, but plenty of other stuff that's nonetheless quite relevant.
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Re:Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out... by chongli on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:47PM (#22752201)
No, the medical capacity is limited by equipment and training. The medical status quo is based around normal, everyday life, where a wide variety of conditions and diseases need to be treated. It’s not an institutional problem that we don’t have the capacity to treat millions of people with pneumonia, as all of that capacity would be wasted during normal times.
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