Guest Post by Kevin Lynn
All unmatched U.S. doctors who graduated from U.S. medical schools in good standing should be given the opportunity to serve in communities throughout the country where they are most needed in this pandemic.
This month, more than 1,200 U.S. medical school seniors learned they did not match to a medical residency. In addition, an untold number of prior-year medical school graduates did not match to a residency. In fact, since 2011, each year a total of approximately 2,000 current-year grads and prior-year graduates haven’t matched.
After spending four years on an undergraduate education, those who enter medical school have gone through a highly competitive and rigorous process to get one of the limited number of seats available in U.S. medical schools. Those who commit eight years of their lives to a very specialized education have a reasonable expectation that they will be able to practice medicine. That a doctor has invested eight years of his or her life in an intellectually demanding field of study and is then shut out of the process is a tremendous violation of the social contract in America.
We call on President Donald Trump, Vice President Pence, Dr. Anthony Fauci, VP Pence’s coronavirus team, Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, the AMA, The Match, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the heads of U.S. medical colleges to work together to deploy those unmatched, and willing to serve. In turn for their commitment to serve for one year, we ask that they be given one-year residency equivalency.
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Except most doctors are incompetent and hardly committed to the well being of humanity. Screw ’em. Let them take a shovel in hand a do a real job, instead of killing people off with their fake cures and toxic concoctions.
Medicine in the United States has ceased to be about the well-being of the patient and their relationship with their doctor, and now all about what pill-du-jour the pharmaceutical companies wish to be pushed on the patients.
Couple that with a complete lack of personal responsibility on the part of the patient, and voila! The current crisis of health here in the US.
“Healthcare” is the biggest misnomer, the biggest labeling lie out there. Make no mistake, what happens to you in the 15 minutes allotted to see your doctor is completely insignificant to your PPO or HMO. Your doctor, be he/she a general practitioner or specialist, is at the mercy of some set of codes and bureaucrats that decide what care you will or will not receive.
From my years in health care (Fallon HMO) I saw doctors that were once caring, compassionate people, now broken into harried, hurried cogs in a larger machine. It seemed to me that the only thing they were good for was whipping out the prescription pad and filling it out for the pills you “needed”.
We are a over-medicated society. End of story.
23% of women in the 40-50 age range take antidepressants
11 MILLION take some form of a statin drug (despite numerous new studies showing these are useless and actually harmful)
50 MILLION have high blood pressure, with 37 MILLION on drugs for this
32 MILLION have type 2 diabetes
Yes, we all get older, but the vast majority of health ailments are caused by lifestyle and diet choices. That’s right folks, THE CHOICES YOU MAKE AFFECT YOUR HEALTH.
I am pretty sure everyone who reads TBP knows this.
So why are fat people not told, point blank, the reason why you have high blood pressure and diabetes is because you eat crap food and do not exercise? Because there is literally no money to be made in intensive lifestyle therapy to change these behaviors. There is, however, billions to be made in giving out the pills or shots.
Why are pre- and menopausal women on antidepressants instead of counseling to adjust their diet and alcohol intake, to get to the root of their troubles? Because there is no money in that.
We are, from cradle to grave, nothing more that an ATM machine for pharmaceutical companies. From dangerous “vaccines” like gardasil given to 10 year old girls, adderall, nothing more than legal speed to “problematic boys”, to dangerous pain meds pawned off on the elderly for arthritis (Vioxx) it’s a never-ending “better living through science”.
Make no mistake. There are serious, genetic conditions that need real medical treatment. Type 1 diabetes, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cystic Fibrosis, the list goes on and on. Grandma, who is 85, can truly benefit from some heart medication because she is old and her heart is weak.
But our medical practitioners have sold their sold to the Pharmaceutical Beelzebub and so here we are.
Humans are biological machines, organic in composition. We run on, and thrive on, clean water, clean food, clean air, and quality sleep. We are meant to love, and laugh, and cry. We stay healthy when we have all of these things in balance.
Chemicals cannot make a sick person well, they can only mask the symptoms and prolong the continued decline.
Now we are nothing more than numbers in a tally, a means to and end not only to the drug companies, but the politicians that view us as nothing more than pawns to be directed here and there as the greed and corruption so dictates. The Covid-19 scandal and masking of real treatments that can help real people speaks volumes of where the cold, black hearts of our leaders lie.
We are a nation taught to be helpless in all things, including our own health.
So, nay I say to more “doctors” who have been run through this sad sorry state of affairs we call Healthcare system.
Like all things that have rotted because of too much intervention, this is but one more thing.
The American public needs to take the reins of their lives back, in all things. When that happens, the system will balance as needs will dictate supply.
I’ve recently become a vegetarian (2 weeks now) and soon(?) to become a vegan.
Great rant from our little puppy.
I have some really good doctors. My Ortho Dr. told me my knee problems originated from the area just above my belt. Less than a year later, the Nurse Practitioner who did my physical told me I would not live to see my grandkids grow up if I did not change my lifestyle, so some of them do care.
I totally believe there are doctors, much like politicians, that go into the system and think they are going to “do good”. Unfortunately, the system is rigged against them from day one.
I am 100% and advocate for personal responsibility in all things, including health. Unless you need surgery, your MD will generally be so uninformed about who you are as a person, that whatever they tell you is sadly lacking.
How much can you really know about a person in 15 minutes? If you are taught, from the very beginning, to treat the symptom and not the cause, how can you assist your patient to heal?
If you take money from pharmaceutical companies to shuck and jive on the pill circuit to push their drug, your oath means nothing.
I have been going to the same Dr. office for 35 years. It is one of the few private practices left and when my doc retires, he will probably sell it to one of the conglomerates who are taking over most private practices. I have a good relationship with the Dr. and only ask to see him when it is something I do not want the Practitioner to handle. Hopefully, he will stay in business until I am gone.
EVERY aspect of medicine, from how many medical schools, who runs them, how many students, how many graduates, how many internships, how many residencies, who can perform what kind of procedure, who can dispense what kind of medicine, and on and on, is all centrally controlled by various elements of the AMA, state medical boards, state legislatures, etc. all for the specific purpose of keeping the supply of doctors short, thus insuring higher pay for every doctor. It also serves to insure that there is inadequate competition to keep prices down or allow patients real choice in any given geographic area. The number of hospital beds, what each hospital can do or deliver as services, etc. is also micromanaged, with all nearby competing hospitals given a voice in the restriction process. I am no fan of western medicine, but if we are to understand how medicine in this country got so fucked up, we need to understand just who is pulling the strings and empowering the tyranny. At every point, GOVERNMENT is the key player in making sure that these unelected bodies and unaccountable bodies, have all the monopoly power they need to destroy the freedom of the consumer.
That is actually a very good idea.
Wasn’t there a post here a while back explaining the issue of visas for foreign docs effectively displacing American grads?
Professionally, I have dealt with MDs for 30 years. Mostly from India. They generally pushed pills, ran as many patients thru the office/day as possible and took forever to sign death certificates.
Can’t make money off the dead ones.
The CPNs and PAs I see now are personable, interested and caring.
Maybe we need less MDs and more of the former.
For the record, the number of newly-minted docs who could be of net benefit to patients immediately after receiving their MD degrees would be very small. After medical school only, they simply don’t have enough real-world experience to be truly useful; practical skills are only acquired after training as an intern/resident, a process which typically takes three additional years.
Net-net, you’d be far better off with a crop of new RNs or PAs.
Fuck you incompetent lot