6 out of 10 doctors agree they'd love more patients

[TaoJoannes]

http://www.rwjf.org/healthreform/product.jsp?id=48408
A RWJF survey summarized in the September 14, 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 62.9 percent of physicians nationwide support proposals to expand health care coverage that include both public and private insurance options

[qiphlow]

but we all know that doctors know nothing about health care. that's why we let the insurance company experts make all the decisions.

[Steve James]

10 out of 10 patients agree they'd rather not need a doctor.

[Dmitri]

10 out of 10 patients agree they'd rather not need a doctor.

Actually that's probably more like 9 or even 8 out of 10. A lot of people love to mope and whine about their life and believe they need constant help...

[Darth Rock&Roll]

lol.

Dmitri, I think you've hit on the real problem with your comment.

In fact, up here in Canada, it is exactly that personality profile that is the bane of the system.

you basically have a huge amount of people who think that a slight cough, a boil or a bunyan that causes them even the slightest discomfort is reason to make way to the emergency room.

Truly, it's fucking ridiculous.

Other problems are that doctors have no regulatory body except for themselves.
This is plane wrong and doctors are overworked all the time and often because of this are negligent in their duty of care.

This results in literally thousands of unneeded deaths every year in Canada and the number is 10x that in the USA.

In fact, during the 2 x where there were significant strikes in the systems and doctors were not readily available, the mortality rate dropped by some 70%!!!



It's ridiculous really.

what do you call a guy who graduated in the bottom 25 percentile? You call him doctor anyway.

[Steve James]

Ok, 9 out of 10, if 10% are hypochondriacs; and 8 of 10, if we count fools.
I guess we could argue it down to a 50/50 proposition. Me, I'd rather not need to see a doctor, the mileage of others may vary.