I wonder what is contributing to the shifting of the political ideology of the doctors. While it may be that they are looking less at earnings from running their own private practices and more towards the salaried jobs in hospitals, it still does not give a proper reason to why they want to do that.

Ha,
idiots.

“dont throw your pearls before pigs, lest they stomp them under their hooves than turn on you.”

Surgeons, Doctors saving your ill, overweight, metabolic syndrome, psychologic, depressive DSMV4, entitlement etc, etc

and yet you still sue them and turn on them in sniffling, chicken hearted blogs.

mrfreeze, May 31 at 11:46 am,

Believe it or not, that was a Mao Tse-tung tactic.

MarthaA - Thanks for your comment. The problem is (IMO), the medical field is producing “fewer” general physicians because more and more graduates are opting for “specialties.” The system seems to drive a mercenary fervor in graduates because they stand to make a lot of money. Soon there won’t be any doctors who even care about the Hippocratic Oath. They will, instead, worship at the altar of the “capitalistic oath.”

In my world, ALL doctors would be required to spend several years in general practice (possibly in places they DON’T like) in order to season them and ensure that they’re in the right profession.

mrfreeze, May 30 at 7:50 pm,

“A couple of years ago on NPR I heard about a small group of
“entrepreneurial” doctors whose sole purpose was to run a
“profitable” business. Arrogant to the point of absurdity, I couldn’t
believe my ears listening to their fucking self-righteous, entitled,
frat-boy attitudes about all the sacrifices they made, all the loans
they needed to pay back and how, basically, delivering health care
was all about them rather than their patients.” — mrfreeze,
May 30 at 7:50 pm

Sounds like these doctors you’re talking about could care less about
their Hippocratic Oath; I doubt seriously any of these doctors will go
into socialized medical care preferring to stay in private practice,
which is good, because reprobate, profit driven only, doctors would be
a hazard to
society.

mrfreeze, May 30 at 7:50 pm,

“A couple of years ago on NPR I heard about a small group of
“entrepreneurial” doctors whose sole purpose was to run a
“profitable” business. Arrogant to the point of absurdity, I couldn’t
believe my ears listening to their fucking self-righteous, entitled,
frat-boy attitudes about all the sacrifices they made, all the loans
they needed to pay back and how, basically, delivering health care
was all about them rather than their patients.” — mrfreeze,
May 30 at 7:50 pm

Sounds like these doctors you’re talking about could care less about
their Hippocratic Oath; I doubt seriously any of these doctors will go
into socialized medical care preferring to stay in private practice,
which is good, because reprobate doctors would be a hazard to
society.

Hopefully, something is changing though I lack confidence.  I’ve had some enlightening experiences with our medical system this last year and a half.  Too many to enumerate here.  So, I will focus on the cost not the quality.  In January 2010 I had a back operation.  The hospital bill, for twenty-four hours in the hospital, was $149,621.25.  That was the hospital bill not the doctor’s bill.  In November I experienced chest pain and went to the emergency room.  That was $60,000 for forty-five minutes, not including the doctor’s bill. 

My neighbor recently went to an emergency room with chest pains.  The cost of determining that the pain was caused by acid reflux was $10,000.

It’s nice that doctors are becoming more liberal.  But, as a society, we can not continue to pay these bills. 

There is some good news.  I recently went to Mayo Clinic.  The first day I met the doctor.  The next day and a half were spent doing every test imaginable.  The fourth day was another doctor appointment.  The total bill (before insurance) came to $2,200 - less than 25% of what the local emergency room charged my neighbor to tell him that he was not having a heart attack.

A couple of years ago on NPR I heard about a small group of “entrepreneurial” doctors whose sole purpose was to run a “profitable” business. Arrogant to the point of absurdity, I couldn’t believe my ears listening to their fucking self-righteous, entitled, frat-boy attitudes about all the sacrifices they made, all the loans they needed to pay back and how, basically, delivering health care was all about them rather than their patients.

I don’t know about you all, but I’ve noticed that whilst everyone else in the U.S. has been forced to become “more productive” and work for less, this cannot be said for the health care industry….Doctors and nurses certainly do deserve just compensation for the hard work they do; however, if the rest of us aren’t doing as well, why should they???????

This article did give me a tinge of schadenfreude.

Wonderful, hopefully they will continue to turn Left where doctors will
be able to objectively follow their Hippocratic Oaths. 
Conservatism threw the Hippocratic Oath away,
except subjectively.