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03-17-2010, 12:22 PM | #1 | ||
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Here is a sobering poll from the doctors who take care of us. From the New England Journal of Medicine:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us Last edited by Dubious; 03-17-2010 at 01:13 PM. Reason: link changed |
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03-17-2010, 05:22 PM | #2 | |||
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another link with more of the article is here-
http://www.themedicusfirm.com/pages/...-health-reform IMO - the doctors polled may "say" they will quit or retire early but... I don't really believe they would give up the income & other perks.
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03-17-2010, 07:10 PM | #3 | ||
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http://www.nejmjobs.org/content/rpt/pdf/marapr_10.pdf Makes you wonder where it all goes though, does it not? |
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03-18-2010, 10:35 PM | #4 | |||
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A couple of things. When I opened the "revised link" in your first post on the thread, this is what now comes up first: March 18, 2010It would appear that someone at the NEJM decided today that a qualification was in order concerning the source of the study. Secondly, the detailed survey results and methods just became available today. (My email request yesterday went unanswered.) To reach it, you have to link to the article on the Medicus site at http://www.themedicusfirm.com/pages/...-health-reform and then click on the pop-up at the bottom of the page maked "For more information on the study’s methodology, click here." Personally, I was most struck by the responses to one question, which was only hinted at in the article, where the latter reads, in pertinent part: Skeptics may suspect that physicians exaggerate their intent to leave medicine due to health reform. Some experts point to the malpractice crisis of years ago, when many doctors also expressed a desire to leave medicine. Some did quit; many did not. However, health reform could be the proverbial “last straw” for physicians who are already demoralized, overloaded, and discouraged by multiple issues, combining to form the perfect storm of high malpractice insurance costs, decreasing reimbursements, increasing student loan debt, and more.And the question? How do you think the passage of health reform (with or without the public option) would impact your thoughts on recommending medical practice as a career to others, such as your kids, or a friend?Translation: over of third of the 53% of the polled doctors who chose to respond to the mailed questionnaire would not recommend others going into the profession, whether or not health care passes! And although an addtional 27% said they would recommend it now, but not if health care reform passed, 12% came out the other way entirely: they would be more likely to recommend it with health care in place. Thus the net effect of health care reform on the likelihood of recommending medicine to others was -15%. Yet as to the effect of health care reform without the public option (the case at hand) there is the very curious reponse: How do you think the passage of health reform WITHOUT a public option would affect your professional/practice plans, if at all?And as to the effect on professional plans IF the public option was included, the results were even more dramatic: No change: 53%Accordingly, even though an aggregate of only 15% of those responding said that the passage of health care reform would impact their recommendation of medicine to others as a career, between 31 and 47% (twice to three tines as many) of those polled indicated that the passage of health reform would have a negative impact on their own decision to stay in the profession. What could that possibly mean? Or is if that old Hypocritic Oath again? Mike |
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03-18-2010, 11:06 PM | #5 | ||
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Naw Mike, I think you are reading too much into it. First, the link (just checked it) http://www.nejmjobs.org/content/rpt/pdf/marapr_10.pdf goes straight to the newsletter for which states is "From the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine" (just cut and pasted that from the newsletter, nifty, eh?). Not the disclaimer. All the other links go to that as of 11 am yesterday. I found it very curious that yesterday all the links except this one (can't find it anywhere) have dissappeared even though the newsletter exists. Clearly, there are those that don't want others to read this. As for the disclaimer? Go figure. The disclaimer wasn't there until yesterday around 11 am. Hmmm...think there is any relationship with the timeliness of impending vote? Wouldn't want people to know what docs really felt about reform, would we now?? And it wouldn't matter anyway, at least to me. The Medicus Firm performed a well-constructed survey for which the "trend" not surprisingly, showed docs convincingly don't want this particular bill. Health care reform, yes....this bill, no! Love ya like a brother, though! |
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03-18-2010, 11:55 PM | #6 | |||
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But seriously, I was troubled by the high rate of discouragement, with or without healthcare reform:
I would not recommend medicine as a career, regardless of health reform: 36%Maybe it's nothing more than sampling bias, where these folks are already in a headhunter's database. What do you think? |
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