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0 pointsmaxerickson8y ago0 comments

The why is complicated, it seems obvious enough that more doctors would be a good thing.

Or at least, more practitioners. We don't need doctors with huge amounts of training to do every evaluation.

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True, but the AMA seems to fight enabling other professions (nurses, pharmacists) from taking on roles traditionally held by doctors.

I rather wish software engineering had a professional association with the lobbying power of the AMA.

arjie8y ago

It would be a damned nightmare. The practitioners are dying of overwork, their patients are dying due to being treated by people who can barely stand after 36-hr days, and meanwhile the professional association comes up with a worker wellbeing plan.

Incompetence on a national scale.

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