It really has gotten this bad when a physician would rather drive a truck cross country than practice primary care:
In the last six months in our community, five primary care physicians have called it quits. Some have gone into hospital medicine, some have gone into the more controlled atmosphere of nursing home medicine, some have gone into the fringe of nutritional medicine and one will simply be driving a truck cross-country commercially.
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Not surprising. It’s called job burnout. When there is no reason to believe that next year will be any better than this year, and in fact is pre-loaded by Medicare to become worse, sometimes it only makes sense to cut your losses and get out to do something else.
The failure of private practice medicine, if it is to happen, has to begin somewhere.
The pillage of medicine by the government, insurers, the medical associations and everyone else is unconscionable. Doctors do not have fight, do not stand as one and do not have the courage to take back their profession. The casualties are far worse than these; I know of at least 5 suicides over the past 12 years. It’s a crying shame.
Leaving medical practice is not unique to primary care. Specialists must deal with the same issues. Three urologists in my area have quit: one retired early, one opened a vineyard/winery and the other is practicing herbal urology.
It is really a strange and sad news that a physician would rather drive a truck cross country than practice primary care.
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