The 1788 Doctors' Riot(en.wikipedia.org) |
The 1788 Doctors' Riot(en.wikipedia.org) |
These guys started out doing roughly the same as those doctors - robbing freshly dug graves for anatomical study - but they moved on to killing to provide the bodies instead. Pretty grim
Wasn't H. H. Holmes also accused of this? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_H_Holmes)
""" Holmes had an entrepreneurial spirit. Based on his former medical education and his connections, he was able to sell skeletons to medical labs and schools. "He, and sometimes a hired assistant, were accused of stripping the flesh off the bodies, dissecting them, and preparing the viable skeletons. The rest of the remains would be tossed in pits of lime or acid, effectively breaking down the remaining evidence." """
Edit: that facial reconstruction of William Burke is really interesting.
2 centuries of corruption has lined their pockets and caused the rest of us to avoid medical care.
I say this as I'm married to a doctor taking home 200-250k/yr. I don't mind shooting myself in the foot to save life.
Healthcare costs do need to come down, but slashing physician salaries should be near the bottom of the list of things to target.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/ph...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179628/#__sec1...
If you look at the life expectancy for someone who's already reached age 45, since 1880 to now the US has gone from ~70yrs -> ~81 years.
A much less significant change
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectation-age-45-b...
Plus, the AMA/AOA has been lobbying for more residency spots for a while now, which would increase supply for physicians. These are generally things that could bring down costs.
If you spend time studying something useless or not making money you wont get money. Its as simple as that.
Maybe it's the opacity surrounding billing. What exactly costs $7k when you are hospitalized for 3 days? Hell, let's skip the ER and the procedures and go with a mental health inpatient stay. There's 72 hours of oversight by the staff. If they're making $20/hour, which isn't off-base to my knowledge and may be generous as they generally aren't BSNs, that's $1440 in wages. Food for 3 days and maybe an hour, hour and a half of the doctor's time over the course of 3 days, and medication. Those additional things don't add up to the remaining $5,560. Even with the cost of the building, electricity, janitors, it doesn't add up. So why does it cost so much for a 3 day stay without an emergency medical procedure?
Also Physicians make 200-600k/yr, that pays for the school in a year.