Another reason for the shortage for doctors and nurses is lack of respect from more people than you would imagine. Patients come into the office and have frequently already googled their symptoms, and the treatment. They either demand the same treatment from the website, or think they need to get the same treatment their friends, or family received from another doctor. If they do not get that antibiotic that "they always get" they are irate, borderline threatening, and start writting down everything they can so that they will be ready if the doctor happens to be wrong. And of course, I am not talking about all patients, most are very nice, polite and appreciate the care. But it doesn't take too many patients each day to make any doctor or nurse reconsider "why". No doctor in ages has gone into medicine for the money, there are so many more professions that make much more money than physicians, and don't require being on call evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. The same people who might complain about a $20 or $30 co-pay for seeing the doctor, will possibly be the same ones who will spend 1000's ++++ for super bowl tickets, other event tickets. For the work, the education, the residency training, etc, the doctors are not making nearily as much money as many white collared or blue colored employees, and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans. And of course , with this new health care, many healthcare professionals are calling it quits, because it has been bad enough with a lot of insurancce companies already cutting back on things the doctors would like to do to take care of their patients, and it will probably get worse. Now, I am sure some people might disagree with the thing I have written,but this is a topic very familiar to me, so I am entitled to my opinion.
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