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Medicine is a challenging profession. Being a doctor can be lucrative in some income categories, but it’s also hard as hell at every level. It’s expensive, exhausting, draining, high-risk and stressful.
And that’s true of most high-end professions.
That’s why we have (or used to have) a screening system called “merit” to separate those who could hack it from those who can’t. It’s why you have the stories about med school students being told, “Look to the right and look to the left, one of you won’t be here next year.” But now that medicine is being DEIed to death, a whole lot of people are getting in, not on merit, but on identity politics, and they can’t hack it. So they do what they always do which is cry that they’re being discriminated against because they entered a tough line of work.
Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, the president and CEO of Physicians For a Healthy California, said that nearly half—47%—of all women physicians of color said they felt burnout and were concerned about their wellbeing.
Alonzo-Diaz is also the co-author of the study “A Prescription For Change.” Female physicians of color are drowning in work, feeling undervalued and, in many cases, experiencing discrimination and racial bias, she said. Aside from the burnout at work, many juggle responsibilities at home.
Doctors in general are drowning in work, feeling undervalued and experiencing burnout.
In surveys, between 49% to 63% of doctors in general report that they feel burned out.
By contrast, Lupe and CBS News are hyping a survey that claims that 47% of minority female doctors feel burned out. Meaning that they’re actually feeling less burned out than average. (Not that CBS will tell you this. Or anything that contradicts the ‘Narrative’ and the ‘Message’.)
Anyway, how do we solve the crisis of medicine being a tough profession?
“Health care organizations can acknowledge, understand and create policies and practices in their places of employment to support and address the causes of burnout,” Alonzo-Diaz said.
The study suggests other recommendations like allowing anonymous employee feedback and compensating them for their work in equity, diversity and inclusion roles.
Paying doctors to push identity politics sounds like it would help Lupe more than it would help most minority female doctors.
Yes … well …
Instead of fretting about a hopelessly compromised healthcare system, I recommend Jesus. I know that may not be popular here, but if you think about it, a positive attitude about your after-outcome will help you overcome the complete failure of the healthcare industry.
I’ve haven’t been to a doctor for over a decade, and I’m not inclined to do so. I have not met a doctor that struck me as ‘competent’ in over 20 years. Even ‘competence’ has been dumbed down.
One doctor we use to treat my brother ‘knows’ the protocols. That is, she can do as she’s told when presented with certain information. She clearly doesn’t understand any of the underlying science. Anyone who knows the science can just walk into her office and tell.
So I don’t think there is any point in seeing a doctor. If it’s not a broken bone or blood spurting everywhere, it’s unlikely you will get any help that’s better than chatgpt.
Which brings me back to your insurance plan.
If you have a plan for your after-outcome, you don’t need to worry about it.
My plan is to take up golf with my late father-in-law. He was a great guy, and we’ve already made our plan to work on my drives. So, I’m good, and I’m not going to worry about incompetent doctors.
Think about it. For peace of mind.
Just a suggestion.
“Instead of fretting about a hopelessly compromised healthcare system, I recommend Jesus. I know that may not be popular here, but if you think about it, a positive attitude about your after-outcome will help you overcome the complete failure of the healthcare industry.”
But don’t you see? That was precisely the mindset of the Christian Dark and Middle Ages. Europeans stopped caring about life on earth and they stopped caring about pursuing happiness on earth.
What’s the point of pursuing happiness on earth when you actually believe that you are depraved at birth by virtue of Original Sin? When you actually believe that life on earth is a punishment for Adam and Eve disobeying God? And the Christian after-life is what really counts?
“What kind of life, then, does the immortal soul require on earth? Self-denial, asceticism, the resolute shunning of this temptation. But isn’t it unfair to ask men to throw away their whole enjoyment of life? Augustine’s answer is: what else befits creatures befouled by Original Sin, creatures who are, as he put it, “crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous”?…
What were the practical results of the medieval approach? The Dark Ages were dark on principle. Augustine fought against secular philosophy, science, art; he regarded all of it as an abomination to be swept aside; he cursed science in particular as “the lust of the eyes.” Unlike many Americans today, who drive to church in their Cadillac or tape their favorite reverend on the VCR so as not to interrupt their tennis practice, the medievals took religion seriously. They proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual. I do not have to remind you of the lives of the saints, who were the heroes of the period, including the men who ate only sheep’s gall and ashes, quenched their thirst with laundry water, and slept with a rock for their pillow. These were men resolutely defying nature, the body, sex, pleasure, all the snares of this life — and they were canonized for it, as, by the essence of religion, they should have been. The economic and social results of this kind of value code were inevitable; mass stagnation and abject poverty, ignorance and mass illiteracy, waves of insanity that swept whole towns, a life expectancy in the teens. “Woe unto ye who laugh now,” the Sermon on the Mount had said. Well, they were pretty safe on this count. They had precious little to laugh about.” – Leonard Peikoff
Doing without necessary medical care isn’t much of a solution. Many people have non-emergency, treatable medical conditions of one kind or another and benefit tremendously from a properly-functioning (i.e. free market) medical system. Most of the problem with health care and health insurance today are easily traced to government interference (controls and regulations). Freeing up medicine along with the rest of productive human activities is a better answer than seeking help from the spiritual realm (which has its own place, but not as a substitute for the practice of medicine).
Thanks Dan!!! One can kinda see it around here also, “reading between the lines” as it were. The less competent doctors get assigned less critical work. The smart ones know what’s going on, obviously.
Peace of mind is for both today and the uncertain tomorrow. Providence is in both, and our momentary light afflictions are producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond compare. 2 Cor. 4:17.
They are looking for high paying jobs with great benefits, high respect and low stress. Good luck with that.
they feel entitled to it
Perfect point 🙂
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
Merit must have hierarchy. Hierarchy and merit are the enemies of sameness. We are now all the same, because sameness is the tool used to eliminate excellence, merit and hierarchy.
Whatever can be imagined or desired can be made real by mere declaration. The white race has no particular merit, culture or history that does not belong to all races because of the fiction that whites stole every land and achievement from every darker race.
Want to be a doctor? As long as you are not white, you will breeze through medical schools and not be weeded out because your grades or your inability to cope with stressful rotations. If you are, then sue for racial discrimination and become a racial grievance lottery millionaire. You were not a victim of your poor choices, no. It was whitey’s perception and treatment of you that deprived you of the respect and position due you.
Want to be an air traffic controller? You don’t even need to go to an FAA-approved university air traffic control program! Neither must you even pass an aptitude test determining your ability to handle the challenging environment of air traffic control. If you are non-white and have been unemployed for 3 years, that’ll do the trick.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/dei-air-traffic-control-safety/
ex-cons of America, do you want to get planes to crash into each other? Sign here.
I try never to fly. Only if necessary, and it usually isn’t.
Would Lupe like some whine with that? If so, I have an excellent vintage to recommend – a wonderful GFY ’24.
nice one …
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“The elimination of Merit and Competency to attain any position ,job, education, leadership etc… will destroy our civilization. ”
– Dr. Jordan Peterson
Dark days ahead folks. Prepare.
My orientation at the City College of New York had, “Look to the right and look to the left, TWO of you won’t be here next year.” That was CCNY BOE, before open admissions made a selective school that was “The poor boy’s (men’s) Harvard” into a remedial institution. The old “would you buy a bridge from that person” could nowadays be would you let that person build a bridge. Those who are destroying education would say yes. After all a bridge is a graft and jobs project.