Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
by logfromblammo on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:54AM
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They'll rue the day they purposefully restricted the available supply of skilled physicians through limitations on residency programs when those pesky technology engineers perfect the doc-in-a-box.
Even worse is when some of those guys open source it and give away the software and hardware schematics, just because they hate giving $30 co-pays and dealing with deductibles, just to get an antibiotic prescription for a viral infection.
Don't make professional problem solvers see you as a problem, or you might just get solved.
Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
by amedstudent1 on Friday January 16, 2015 @08:32AM
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Your post is a gold mine of potential points to attack but I'll save it and just focus on this:
>the supply of doctors is kept short purposefully to ensure they make money++
No. It's costly to train them, and it's hard for an average person to afford.
why should a doctor care? they get paid weather you live or die. what happens to you basically has no bearing on their career. a doctor i know worked on a guy who was having chest pains but was 'diagnosed' with COPD. he was to be sent home, but that doctor refused to because of patient history: all 5 of his brothers died of a heart attack before 60. what would have happened to anyone there had he been sent home? nothing, just another heart attack death.
at least they got things right on brother #6 though.
in short, doctors have little incentive to pick up their game. the supply of doctors is kept short purposefully to ensure they make money++. Only way out of this mess is technology when people can finally take their health back into their own hands.