• Deceptichum@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    62
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    Blaming doctors for insurance, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies prices is a bit rich.

    Letting capitalists into healthcare is the issue, not the fucking doctors. Shit the doctors are probably just as indebted to their student loans as their patients are to the hospitals, while getting reamed with fucked 24/36 hour shifts and overworked to the bone.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      24
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      People don’t seem to understand that the entire medical profession is structured around exploitation — where they still expect you to work 80+ hour weeks back to back, often with shifts that last 18+ hours, and a few hours sleep in between.

      Lumping the medical scientists/professionals with medical capitalists is class warfare.

    • Tinidril@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      10 months ago

      My primary care doctor of 20+ years just quit the practice. He confided in me that it just wasn’t worth it for him to keep dealing with the crazy demands and dwindling rewards. He is one of about 150k doctors who left the profession in the last couple years.