NHS Meltdown: Not Enough Emergency Docs
And the tales of medical woe continue to mount in the UK as the NHS collapses. Now, there is a serious shortage of emergency room doctors. From the story:
The College of Emergency Medicine has issued a report calling for the number of A&E consultants must double within three years in order to ensure there is proper supervision of junior doctors so patients get the best care.This is not the direction in which we should want to go.
In their report The Way Ahead, the College said there needs to be 1500 emergency medicine consultants by 2012 as this would mean there was a senior doctor on duty in each A&E at all times. Currently only a minority of hospital emergency departments have adequate numbers of senior doctors and complex cases and very sick patients are seen by doctors who are still training.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:07 PM
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4 Comments:
It sure isn't. The greater the shortage of doctors and nurses, the more vulnerable patients are not only not going to receive the care they need, but also end up euthanized. What's causing the shortage, overseas and here?
I think it is a combination of things, from resources, to regulatory-caused shortages, to over utilization. I recall the Clinton paying medical schools to produce fewer doctors. Don't know if that policy was ever rescinded.
The Clinton administration paid medical schools to produce fewer doctors? Why on EARTH...? How does it hurt society to have more, or even too many, doctors? If there being "too many" doctors made it harder to make a living as a doctor, the problem would correct itself in the marketplace via fewer people going to medical school, without the government having to spend a dime or stick its nose into the situation at all. What is wrong with having too many doctors? In fact, that would be an advantage, not a problem, and help to offset medical greed, the overloading with which doctors now have to contend, and the shortage of physicians in the most needy parts of the country. If the government was going to spend money on medical schools, it should have been demanding more doctors in return, and if there were too many, it should have been paying them to go where physicians are lacking and poor people desperately need them. How is it good economics to pay medical schools to reduce the availability of an essential service? How are how many doctors there are, and the bottom lines of medical shcools, even the government's business in the first place? If a medical school is having financial trouble, the place it should turn to is the university of which it is part.
Who benefits from this? The medical schools, I suppose, by getting more money to produce less product. Why would the government, and its executive branch, no less, want to help them do that? Were the medical schools running out of money? If they were, what caused that?
This is part of how the Clintons were going to solve the "health care crisis?" The only benefit that came out of Hillary's "health care reform program" was to insurance companies, including via the increase in severity of federal laws against insurance fraud. Did the Clinton administration paying medical schools to turn out fewer doctors benefit the insurance companies?
Let's see -- Clinton said he despised the military, he ignored and, failed to do what the country needed him to do about, terrorism, he made sure more prisons were built and that the prison system expanded, at which point more and more people started either ending up in jail and prison as prisoners or seeking "job security and good pay" via employment at prisons in order to fill them and keep the prison industry in business and profitable, his wife's health care reform program was as disastrous as her presidential campaign was, with the insurance industry and Obama as the respective beneficiary as each, now Obama, who's taken her on board and given her yet another job of which, based on her record to date, she'll make a mess, with the country's entire survival at stake, wants to force everyone to carry insurance, going to prison has become more like a "mainstream,""everyday" experience as the population has been warmed up in that way for accepting confinement in institutions and totalitarianism, and the medical profession, and society at large, is lacking part of a generation of doctors who would have been doctors otherwise, which only has made the cost of medical care go up and forced more people who cannot afford it to go without it, which doesn't do any favors for the general health and well-being of the population. Plus, it makes fewer doctors available to care for the elderly and the disabled, as well as for the less affluent, the de facto result of which is that they get sicker and weaker, which leaves them even more vulnerable to "medical judgement" that based on their "poor prognoses" and "failure to thrive," and, of course, on "the need not to waste resources and technology," they get euthanized. I've been saying since Clinton was in office that I strongly suspected that their ultimate goal was to turn the U.S. into a totalitarian nation, and neither they nor the legacy of their "health care agenda" have faded into the sunset; instead, we're still stuck with them and the way they have made things worse -- and enough people have been as stupid about looking to Obama as a "savior" as they were about the Clintons, and as they are about the death culture, that now we're stuck with the next stage of their totalitarian agenda, which he's going to enact with Hillary right on the scene.
Why on EARTH would there be regulatory-caused shortages of doctors if Clinton really had "felt our pain"? All the yammering about "fixing the health care system" was to inure people further to "living under a system," brainwash them into feeling powerless, and distract them from the real agenda, which had been at the very least to enrich the insurance companies, and the more power insurance companies can exert, the more difficult it is for people to have autonomy, self-respect, and control over their own health care, and the more afraid people feel, and are constantly encouraged to feel, because they don't carry and can't afford health insurance, and the more brainwashed they are into believing that they absolutely must have it, the more the death culture, which depends on its existence on people being fearful and sheep, can take hold.
I don't remember hearing anything about the Clinton administration paying medical schools to produce fewer doctors, and I wonder how many other people did; the denouement hasn't been public enough to have come to SHS's attention; it's all been drowned out, deliberately, by Hillary's yammering about "fixing the health care system," which has, like water dripping on a stone, encouraged people to feel desperate enough to want "universal health care, like other countries have," and to "hope" (and believe), blindly, "that Obama will fix it." By the time all this is through, even more sheep will be begging, and grateful, to be "euthanized." This is really, really bad, and isn't that an understatement.
Maybe too much money is spent on genetics and stem cell work and leading to expert-ism, too many students are more interested in being researchers and older doctors more interested in being specialists.
We could just pay good ER doctors more, if we didn't spend so much on research. And get as much of the non-emergency stuff out of the ER by having more walk-in clinics, preferably right at the hospital next to the ER.
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