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Dr. Sid Rohrscheib is a general surgeon in central Illinois. His career spans the period from the 1990s to present and he has witnessed the changes wrought by the financialization of medicine. We have corresponded for a while about the problems in health care and he kindly consented to come on the podcast.
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Great interview. So many doctors leaving general practice to go into business for cosmetic injections, the vanity business. Could tell this Doc is no fan of Nurse Practitioners and we are introducing more of them in my province. My Doc just retired, so now I have to try and find a new one. Fifteen years ago my GP, an internal specialist, and then a surgeon saved my life. Caught the problem through bloodwork. Doctors are my heroes.
And everything he said about the newbies in medicine is true in every other line of work. ‘Two Dimensional’ was too kind.
I agree, excellent interview. I lived in central Illinois (Land of Lincoln) for 5 years so I know his “beat area” well. What this doc describes is a microcosm of what is happening across the country, unfortunately for us, the patients.
I went to the doctor 2 years ago for extremely slow healing canker sores. The doctor just threw some mouthwash at me after a brief search online. Last year, I finally went back after recurring issues of the same type. He did some blood tests, and they were immediately posted on the website. After a little research, it looked pretty clear that I had leukemia. I had to harass my doctor to go over the results and get a referral for me to a cancer specialist. It took almost 3 months to finally get that referral, and the cancer specialist had me inpatient in a week to begin a grueling treatment program.
Between Covid and my personal experiences with docs, I have little to no faith in them anymore. We are living in the age of incompetency.
Good interview, thanks. It’s particularly valuable to get the inside view of how these things are evolving, if for no other reason than to have a better idea of how to navigate the medical racket.
Dr. Sid is describing the symptoms of a sick health care system but not the disease. The “health care system” is terrible here in Canada (cheaper to kill the sick), U.K. (google Aoife Johnston), and elsewhere. Modern health systems require an EROI (look it up if you don’t know what that means) of 12:1 or higher. We’re below that and have been for a while. That’s why the system is failing. Waves of migrants and deadly COVID shots have hastened a decline that was already in progress. This falling EROI will continue to erode all central systems including education, just in time deliveries, etc. Do what you can to prepare for this eventuality including localizing and getting out of the ‘system’ wherever and whenever you can.