Nathan Scandella (personal)

The Honeymoon for Doctors in this Country Needs to End

CNN had an article today on Medicare reimbursement rates. I posted a grumpy reply, which I think is important enough to reproduce here:

Boo, hoo. Doctors get a temporary pay cut, while the paperwork gets sorted out, after years of faster-than-inflation pay hikes, including large rate increases during a deep recession.


It's time for doctors to grow up and join the real economy, where there are actual constraints on money.


They turn out a terrible product in this country (can't keep a schedule, huge overbooking, poor office hours, very little time spent with patients, high rates of errors in prescriptions, archaic record-keeping, scarce support for legal services like abortion, virtually zero phone and email contact, sleep-deprived zombies working on us in ERs ...) and get paid quite well to do so:


http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-doctors-in-other-countries-make/


Either we the patients deserve more, or they deserve less.

Posted at 01:26PM Jun 18, 2010 by Nathan in General  |  Comments[0]