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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (606194)	8/27/2016 7:58:10 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

The famous medical cartel.... Tell me, if they're so powerful, how come primary care medicine is, apparently, on the list of jobs that "Americans won't do"? By now, close to half of our PCP's are foreign trained. Some years ago I read a study showing that only about 2% of the 4th year American medical school students plan to spend their careers in Primary Care. Why? Apparently, because this isn't the best way towards fame and fortune - cartel or no cartel. Of course, those young people are making a mistake - as socialism in healthcare keeps advancing, the doc's work hours are improving, and their incomes keep going up. Except... they, along with the truck and taxi drivers, are about to lose their jobs to computers. They say, a career of the future is to be trained to examine people - and to feed the information to a "Dr. Computer", who will take over from that point on. (Personally, I wouldn't recommend to any young person to take this career path - they'll be out of business as soon as the quality of the interface between the patient and the AI "doctor" improves). So, if anyone knows any members of the all powerful medical cartel (I don't), tell them to enjoy their great power and influence while it lasts, for they're about to join the jobless millions of the forthcoming jobless society. Or so they say.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (606194)

8/27/2020 10:43:28 PM

From: Maple MAGA

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Respond to of 793670

Great post to Skinowski, perhaps more important now a year later...

“I have been waiting for the medical cartel to declare aspirin to be a prescription-only chemical. <

Quite obviously, the transformation of one of the oldest and least costly medications into something fantastically expensive didn't happen due to free market forces.

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There are huge profits to be had. Letting people treat themselves with a pharmacologically active chemical like aspirin is too dangerous, especially when appointments and medical examination can be made and money banked.

"Hello Mrs Smith. You have a headache? We can fit you in at 3.30pm on Thursday next week."
"But I have a headache now. On Thursday it will be gone."
"Sorry but that's the earliest we have."
"Can't you just email the pharmacy a prescription?"
"No, it's far too dangerous to let people self-medicate. Heck it could be a brain tumour, meningitis or any number of things wrong so we need to properly diagnose it and bank a lot of money."
"But when it is a brain tumour, you just say - take an aspirin, have a lie down and come back for another consultation in a week if it persists. Then you up the dose to some other pain killer and say try that for another week. This is just a headache which will respond to aspirin. If it doesn't, I'll do something else."
"Oh, and where did you get your medical degree Mrs Smart Aleck patient?"

By then, Mrs Smith is really getting a headache.

Water should be prescription only too. People can die from dehydration. We can't be too safe. Doctors should monitor our water levels to ensure we are on the straight and narrow.

Safety first,
Mqurice”