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More physicians leaving private practices

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NEW YORK, June 14 (UPI) -- A survey by Accenture indicates more U.S. physicians are selling their private practices to work at larger healthcare systems.

By 2013, less than one-third of U.S. physicians are expected to remain in private practice and patients may increasingly find that being treated by physicians in private, small practice settings may be a thing of the past.

More physicians leaving private practices - UPI.com
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More lies....So much for keeping your doctor....

j-mac
 
"Physicians tell the survey that they are increasingly attracted to the benefits offered by hospital-based employment opportunities, which include: relief from administrative responsibilities; greater access to leading healthcare information technology tools, facilities and equipment; and a more manageable work week and stability."

There seems to be a huge disconnect between the contents of the article and the OP.
 
j-mac said:
More lies....So much for keeping your doctor....
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I think that when he said you could keep your doctor, it was obviously implied that you couldn't force your doctor to continue to provide you service whenever and wherever is most convenient for YOU, if he doesn't want to. :roll:

If the doctor chooses to do something else, that's his business and it's tough **** for you. If we're worried about the number of doctors leaving the practice, we should build more medical schools. That is the biggest bottleneck in our health care system right now. We have an artificial shortage of doctors, thanks to the AMA monopoly on labor.
 
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toddwv said:
"Physicians tell the survey that they are increasingly attracted to the benefits offered by hospital-based employment opportunities, which include: relief from administrative responsibilities; greater access to leading healthcare information technology tools, facilities and equipment; and a more manageable work week and stability."

There seems to be a huge disconnect between the contents of the article and the OP.
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Not at all. See when you make a law that intentionally drives certain costs, and slashes others in the name of "the Greater Good" then you force docs to make decisions like this because they can't afford their practices, and the tools to make them successful. This is only the first step in downgrading America's health care.

j-mac
 
toddwv said:
"Physicians tell the survey that they are increasingly attracted to the benefits offered by hospital-based employment opportunities, which include: relief from administrative responsibilities; greater access to leading healthcare information technology tools, facilities and equipment; and a more manageable work week and stability."

There seems to be a huge disconnect between the contents of the article and the OP.
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What? No way! It's all Obama's fault. We're not going to have any doctors anymore and we're all going to die!
 
It looks like they are working for hospitals or other larger providers instead. So you still have access to your doctor.

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j-mac said:
Not at all. See when you make a law that intentionally drives certain costs, and slashes others in the name of "the Greater Good" then you force docs to make decisions like this because they can't afford their practices, and the tools to make them successful. This is only the first step in downgrading America's health care.
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Why is it a downgrade in America's health care if some private practices consolidate into hospitals? It seems that you've read the initial article, then made several logical leaps without connecting the dots for us.
 
Ikari said:
What? No way! It's all Obama's fault. We're not going to have any doctors anymore and we're all going to die!
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Oh, you'll have doctors. Just not good ones.

We'll all be relegated to "the clinic".
 
Kandahar said:
Why is it a downgrade in America's health care if some private practices consolidate into hospitals? It seems that you've read the initial article, then made several logical leaps without connecting the dots for us.
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If anything, one would think they would have better access to diagnostic equipment.
 
Erod said:
Oh, you'll have doctors. Just not good ones.

We'll all be relegated to "the clinic".
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Ohh so scarrrrry. Maybe these "death clinics" will change our life expectancy to that of what UHC countries average... oh wait, that's a net positive because our life expectancy isn't as high as most UHC countries.
 
Erod said:
Oh, you'll have doctors. Just not good ones.

We'll all be relegated to "the clinic".
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:shrug: my "clinic" isn't half bad. They deal with heart and lung transplants for the most part.
 
Erod said:
Oh, you'll have doctors. Just not good ones.

We'll all be relegated to "the clinic".
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I know, that's what I'm saying. Everybody knows that good doctors can only exist in private practices.
 
Erod said:
Oh, you'll have doctors. Just not good ones.

We'll all be relegated to "the clinic".
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Nah, we will just be Nazi death gassed.
 
Ikari said:
I know, that's what I'm saying. Everybody knows that good doctors can only exist in private practices.
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Yeah the butchers at my heart lung transplant center state teaching hospital have a abysmal survival rate higher than the national average.

Oh and they one of the first to successfully implant a Left Ventricular Assist Device. And only have a few Nobel Laureates on their hospitals staff.
 
winston53660 said:
Yeah the butchers at my heart lung transplant center state teaching hospital have a abysmal survival rate higher than the national average.

Oh and they one of the first to successfully implant a Left Ventricular Assist Device. And only have a few Nobel Laureates on their hospitals staff.
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But it's the libertarian view point that if one cannot make insanely large amounts of money doing their job then people will just sit on their ass all day.
 
None of this matters. Obamacare is unconstitutional anyway, and will be ruled rightly so.
 
winston53660 said:
Yeah the butchers at my heart lung transplant center state teaching hospital have a abysmal survival rate higher than the national average.

Oh and they one of the first to successfully implant a Left Ventricular Assist Device. And only have a few Nobel Laureates on their hospitals staff.
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Yeah, but as previously established good doctors can only exist in private practices. So think about how good those doctors could have been if only they had to work in private practice.
 
Kandahar said:
If we're worried about the number of doctors leaving the practice, we should build more medical schools.
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According to the article, their not leaving medicine. They're just going to be doctors in a different setting.
Despite the OP, we're not actually losing doctors according to this article.
 
Kandahar said:
Why is it a downgrade in America's health care if some private practices consolidate into hospitals? It seems that you've read the initial article, then made several logical leaps without connecting the dots for us.
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The next step after consolidation will be for Big Government to go after Big Hospital.
 
Kandahar said:
I think that when he said you could keep your doctor, it was obviously implied that you couldn't force your doctor to continue to provide you service whenever and wherever is most convenient for YOU, if he doesn't want to. :roll:

If the doctor chooses to do something else, that's his business and it's tough **** for you. If we're worried about the number of doctors leaving the practice, we should build more medical schools. That is the biggest bottleneck in our health care system right now. We have an artificial shortage of doctors, thanks to the AMA monopoly on labor.
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I disagree. The problem is not fewer medical school students due to not enough medical schools... it's that more and more graduating medical students are going into specialties and not into a primary care practice.
 
j-mac said:
Not at all. See when you make a law that intentionally drives certain costs, and slashes others in the name of "the Greater Good" then you force docs to make decisions like this because they can't afford their practices, and the tools to make them successful. This is only the first step in downgrading America's health care.

j-mac
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The article doesn't make apoint about docs being forced out due to costs. It says that they are lured away.

Physicians tell the survey that they are increasingly attracted to the benefits offered by hospital-based employment opportunities, which include: relief from administrative responsibilities; greater access to leading healthcare information technology tools, facilities and equipment; and a more manageable work week and stability.

Read more: More physicians leaving private practices - UPI.com​

Maybe you meant to link to some other article that is accordance with your OP?
 
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