[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by blueash

Lots of opinions and a couple of "facts" upon which those opinions were formed.
Easiest to fact check, how many applicants were there for medical schools in 1978? was is 129000 US applicants? Not even close. In 1978 there were under 30,000 applicants. The last year reported in 2014 had the highest number of applicants in history..........

When you start with non-factual facts, you might end up with non-reasonable conclusions, or not

As to what we Americans will stand for, that is for the political forum but to suggest that there is some secret conspiracy of people attempting to collapse the health care industry is ....

Speaking of "When you start with non-factual facts"......in this quote above, you have a huge non-premise premise.

Number of medical school graduates is not the problem with the looming and already present shortage of primary care physicians!

Besides the fact that many grads do not choose primary care specialties like family practice or internal medicine because these specialties do not pay enough to repay $350,000 to $400,000 of student loan debt and still afford to buy a home and normal living expense......there is THIS:

"Most people are aware of America's looming physician shortage, but the shortage of residency slots for medical school graduates has received less attention.

In order to practice medicine in this country, graduates of allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) medical schools must complete a residency training program. In recent years the number of MD and DO graduates has increased by more than 23 percent in an effort by schools to address the country's growing physician shortage, which the American Association of Medical Colleges estimates will approach 90,000 too few physicians by 2025.

While the number of medical school graduates is increasing, the number of residency training positions has not kept pace. If this imbalance is not addressed, the number of American MD and DO graduates will exceed the number of first-year residency positions, which by some estimates could occur as soon as 2017.

When this happens, young physicians-who dedicated years to the pursuit of a medical education and incurred significant debt doing so-will not be able to practice medicine, and the physician shortage will persist.

Part of the problem stems from the funding mechanism for Graduate Medical Education (GME). Medicare covers the majority of the cost teaching hospitals spend on training medical residents, but the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 capped the number of residency slots the federal government would fund....."

Shortage of residency slots may have chilling effect on next generation of physicians | TheHill

[champion6]

Originally Posted by rosygail

My husband waited 10 hours to see a doctor in the TVRH ER on March 2nd, and he was having chest pain! This is inexcusable care! They must do better!

Your description seems to imply that he had or was having a heart attack. When he was seen by a doctor, what was his diagnosis? Did he have a heart attack?

[crabbyannie1]

Originally Posted by linday

My mom developed double pneumonia and was sent to er from premier medical and waited 9 hours before getting room and treatment. Mom got better thank God! But, have been advised in the future to only go to the villages hospital by ambulance or it may be your last hospital stay ever! Unacceptable!

Please take my word for it...being transported there by ambulance means nothing. You still wait after triage. I waited 9 hours and my husband waited 5. The busiest hospitals in NYC don't have this kind of backlog. They really don't.