>>688484

Exactly. All while the pay goes down, down, down

>>688581

Bonus. We're the least expensive organization in the government.

Trump/Q team knows how to pinch a penny.

>>688761

Nailed it. And how many patients understand that the insurance company bean counters have the last word in their treatment plan? "Authorization" = how severely does this patient's needed (and DOCTOR recommended) treatment effect our bottom line?

>>688648

Yes – already has. The best minds are no longer choosing medicine unless it's an area of medicine that is on a cash basis (i.e. cosmetic surgery, etc).

It will be the people that suffer when they no longer have our brightest working to keep them healthy. Even now, you know what they call the guy that graduates at the bottom of his medical school…"Doctor". That will soon become the typical practitioner

>>688976

Unless big pharma can produce a do-it-yourself total hip, my job should be secure (though my pay will probably little more than nurse pay as the corporations continue to cut doctor pay so they can make more).