I’ve told doctors countless times the medication’s they used to treat my Asperger’s and my bipolar disorder schizoaffective type, make me ill weak and caused me pain. But they never listen to me. So this is not even about people with serious mental handicaps. They don’t listen to patients in general. But that’s true for people with mental illness They think every pain or issue we have is solely our heads.
But I also recently had a friend mother who went to the doctor because her ankles were swelling and she had some other issues. They took a blood test and didn’t tell her. Her kidney function was with stage 3B kidney failure. It was two weeks until my friend showed me the labs and I told her to go back and force him to take more test.
I don’t know what’s going on in medicine if this is something new or is this something old but medical school shouldn’t cost as much as it does if they’re putting out doctors like these.
Profit and loss incentives make it so that if you are competent you get clients and you keep going, if you aren't you lose money and fail.
With central banking we have destroyed this system and in the case of medicine not only there is a lot of central banking interference but here is also a guild system that limits the supply of doctors, so bad doctors don't fail and with time you get more and more bad Doctors. Things will only get worse
Doctors being bad at their jobs predates central banking, take the long held obsession with blood letting as just one example. Fixing finance will not fix doctors.
If doctors want people to listen to them they need people to believe they’re very smart, and getting pulled into the mire of the specifics of people’s conditions would just result with both the patient and doctor finding out they don’t know enough and that’s bad for business.
Absolutely. Nowhere is the perversion of incentives more clear than in places where we hope people will act from their heart and their genuine concern, because they are out-competed by the economic forces of easy, cheap, fast money.
This phenomenon is also visible with regard to single-use plastics, as much a stretch as that may seem: why buy things that can be re-used indefinitely, and passed on to next generations, when money is such a hot potato? Better (rationally) to trade money for cheap plastic things from the other side of the world.
Fair question. The profit incentive in this case is not meant as a psychological incentive, but a purely economic one.
If I make money doing something, I can keep doing it. If I don't, I lose money and so I can't.
It's a natural selection mechanism that will always happen. We broke it (aka we don't like it) because we moved from the consumer choosing who profits to central banks.
So, doctors that are not liked by the consumer don't disappear as fast as they should. They also don't land where they could do good because we leave everything to arbitrary judgements of well meaning bureaucrats instead of the choices of people that have to be served.
No system is perfect but we are missing something important in healthcare and I think this is the main culprit.
But I also recently had a friend mother who went to the doctor because her ankles were swelling and she had some other issues. They took a blood test and didn’t tell her. Her kidney function was with stage 3B kidney failure. It was two weeks until my friend showed me the labs and I told her to go back and force him to take more test.
I don’t know what’s going on in medicine if this is something new or is this something old but medical school shouldn’t cost as much as it does if they’re putting out doctors like these.