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Disinfected's avatar

I've concluded that the Primary care docs are nothing more than gate keepers. Anything weird, you get referred to a specialist (for extra $$, of course), and for everything else you get a prescription drug, a lab test of some sort, or a generic instruction (don't eat so much fat, stop drinking so much, stay off it for a few days, etc). Pretty much plug and play, you might as well be interacting with an online algorithm, which not surprisingly, is getting more and more popular now as well. Very little medicine or alleged "health care" going on in my experience.

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JohnAZ's avatar

There is a major change in primary care that has been going on for a while. First, the Hospitalist, hospital employees that take over as the attending when you are in the hospital. A good indication of the grift here is that in your D/C orders, you are to visit your Primary care guy within two weeks of discharge. Double dose of corruption as the primary care guys do not do squat except book keep.

Second - is the incorporation of Primary care guys into large groups. Here in Arizona, we have corporations buying up all the Primary practices and acting as the “staff” for all of them. For a while, hospitals were doing the same, but I believe the corporations have the lead. Let me tell you from experience, the corporate takeover is hideous. When we went to our latest Primary Care guys, my first question was “Are you ever going to sell out?”

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shibumi's avatar

As a doctor, you can't go against the advice of your Medical Group. Also, because of the cost of malpractice insurance, you can't afford to be independent.

Therein lies a big problem.

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Cankerpuss's avatar

So it sounds like the root problem for doctors is......LOYAS! Attorneys. The most useless profession invented by man. At least prostitutes give something in return for money. Attorneys. Nothing. They just take, take, take. They suck society dry and don't produce a damned thing. And our nation is full of them.

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Letsrock's avatar

The corporations are now even taking over veterinarian practices. They're the lowest of the low.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Yup!

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Letsrock's avatar

Looks exactly the same to me.

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