Gawker has written an article titled “Stupid Americans Trust Doctors” written by Parenne and published on June 17, 2009, located over at http://gawker.com/5294409/stupid-americans-trust-doctors in which it says:
” Doctors are lazy and greedy and do not care about you. But Americans do not know this! Because of the TV, they think doctors would come up with a good national health care plan. They would not. If the doctors made a plan, it would involve paying them even more money to not bother keeping up with advances in their fields and not ever letting you sue them when they hurt or kill you.”
Here is one female doctor’s view on why she went into medicine via http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/02/the-health-reform-we-need-are-not-getting/?page=3
“I am a doctor and… yes, I love the money! Its amazing, you gomers keep coming back to us and we just sprinkle a little Rx here or a little there and bam, we charge it. I get about 175/hr if I moonlight. Can’t help it if you losers were too busy thinking you could become awesome investment bankers or physicists when you could look around you and see that physicists are selling pizza in their spare time to make ends meet. Me, i looked around saw the benz’s and the $$$ and no doctors selling Pizzas and knew that I was gonna hit this field up.”
According to Wikipedia gomer is:
“a medical slang term for a patient in a hospital who is demented (and not fully conscious) or bordering on death, hence taking up room unnecessarily in the hospital.”
One man’s views on doctors is the following:
“I finished my phd recently and worked closely with recent graduate MDs. These people are disgusting, greedy and self-entitled. I say, lets shove money down their throats and see if they become happy. I have lost my hopes of good doctor-patient relationship, and just pray I will never need their services.”
At a recent GOP debate a question was asked to Ron Paul
“… a healthy 30 year old young man has a good job makes a good living but decides you know what I am not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because you know what I am healthy I don’t need but something terrible happens and all of a sudden he needs it.”
Audience members of the Tea Party debate cheered and yelled out support for allowing this hypothetical uninsured man to die. See for yourself…
When you can’t trust your doctor because many of them are operating a business designed to maximize profit and some members of society don’t consider a human life as sacred then how can you put any credibility in the “free market” applied to healthcare.
It may be dumb but then what is the option they have ?
You bring up a valid point. About the only thing you can do is become educated perhaps even become a doctor yourself and stay up to date with the latest medical journals and articles.
I would argue that the business side of medicine needs to be eliminated in the U.S. so healthcare is what is actually being practiced.