MD resqponse to Dinah

[Guest guest]

Dear Caring Doc,

From the training and 'brainwashing' you percieve you have had to endure for so many years it seems natural that your profession adopts a certain 'entitlement' attitude.

However, perhaps a little less propaganda and brainwashing from Pharma, medical institutes, professors(paid by med institutes and pharma) would benefit the medics of today.

How about a few weeks of FREE thinking, gut instinct stuff . Perhaps you could spend a little time on line and read up about diseases and their treatment , how to recognise them, How the incidence of these diseases were going down BEFORE vaccines were introduced due to sanitary , diet improvements and antibiotics.

Perhaps you could investigate the links between doctors in cushy paid positions and drug companies and the biased evidence based medicine they practice.

How about giving a little thought to the system of medicine that is in place today, male dominated both in numbers and thinking.

A little feminine influence may again be needed in the medicine of the future.- Real listening skills, co operation, nutrition.

Did you know before the 'Burning times' 500 years ago most women were healers , midwives and herbalists?They owned more property and had more money in their society. They were burned at the stake and condemned as witches. Afterwards only men could practice medicine. That legacy is still in place to day. With most prevailing attitudes being taught at med school being male. Most drug therapy texts are written as if fighting a war not healing a body.!

How about if you spent all that money at Med school and the bottom line is that illness is best treated and prevented by good food,unpolluted water air and food, hygene, rest, sunshine and Love and that everyone else is now learning it via the internet for FREE.( omitting Trauma medicine which is unsurpassed by allopathy)

They are also learning that our cultures ability to maintain these 'commons' are being stolen from us by corporations and governments looking for quick profits who are then covering up and hiding the evidence of these toxic blunders and then subptly blaming us by calling it all genetic.

At least you are now aware and medically qualified and can get out there and do some real good by changing the system from within. If money is not your only goal you should have much sucess for much needs changing.

Ange

We go to school for no less than 8 years after highschool. During medical school we rely on the knowledge, skills and wisdom of our professors, our mentors to build us up after the rigors of school have deconstructed us. Then we have 3 years (at least) of post-graduate training. While in training we participate in at least three educational conferences a day in addition to caring for our patients. We jump through firey hoops at all hours of the day and night. We work 80 to 120 hours a week for very little pay ( as little as $5.60 per hour). You try resuscitating a newborn in the middle of the night while you have to take care of a patient crashing in the ICU and the family of the brain-dead teenage mother who OD'd. HAve you had a nine-month old baby die in your arms and then have to go home after two or three hours of sleep (if you are lucky) to your own family with its own set of unique needs.

During medical school and our first year of residency training we pass three standardized national medical board exams each of which is 7 to 8 hours long and for which we study for months. Once we are done with residency, we have to pass our specialty certification boards. Some of us have to practice for a couple of years before we can even take them.

Once we are done with residency and we are in practice we start repaying our loans. I didn't have to pay for undergrad and I had a scholarship for med school tuition and I started my career with $85,000 in educational loan debt, a pittance compared to the debt of some.

In practice, we are mandated to see as many as 40 patients a day. Why? Because medicare and insurance payments are going down; medicaid rarely sends a check; health care expense are increasing; insurance costs and other employee benefits have skyrocketed and we physicians have to see more patients, do more paperwork, answer to insurance companies that question our every medical move in order to support our families and pay our staff.

So we work endlessly; put our own health at risk; incur huge amounts of debt while our classmates have gone of to become bank presidents; study relentlessly; ask our families to sacrifice right along with us all because we are stupid and don't care?