Comments on: Dropping obstetrics http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/dropping-obstetrics.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jasonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/dropping-obstetrics.html#comment-86663 Jason Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/07/dropping-obstetrics.html#comment-86663 It was no surprise when the family physicians began to drop their OB privileges for similar reasons. When I first started seeing the community OB/GYN's switch to GYN only practice was when I started to understand the gravity of the situation. And why not? GYN surgical procedures pay more, are less risk, and can be scheduled nicely. Who is going to pick up the slack here though? FP's are already pushed out. Midwives? Nurse PhD's? Maybe ER docs! It was no surprise when the family physicians began to drop their OB privileges for similar reasons. When I first started seeing the community OB/GYN’s switch to GYN only practice was when I started to understand the gravity of the situation. And why not? GYN surgical procedures pay more, are less risk, and can be scheduled nicely. Who is going to pick up the slack here though? FP’s are already pushed out. Midwives? Nurse PhD’s? Maybe ER docs!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/dropping-obstetrics.html#comment-86662 Anonymous Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/07/dropping-obstetrics.html#comment-86662 There may be a crisis of quality in the future, but not of quantity. There will always be enough so-called medical practitioners from Mukumbura, Zimbabwe or Outer Mongolia desperate enough to get to the U.S. that they will buy themselves a medical diploma (current price in Luanda, Angola is US$ 50) and agree to practice obstetrics in Jerkwater, USA for as long as it takes to get citizenship. <br/><br/>You should have taken better care of your own obstetricians while you had them. Now they are going the way of the thylacine, and there's no coming back. There may be a crisis of quality in the future, but not of quantity. There will always be enough so-called medical practitioners from Mukumbura, Zimbabwe or Outer Mongolia desperate enough to get to the U.S. that they will buy themselves a medical diploma (current price in Luanda, Angola is US$ 50) and agree to practice obstetrics in Jerkwater, USA for as long as it takes to get citizenship.

You should have taken better care of your own obstetricians while you had them. Now they are going the way of the thylacine, and there’s no coming back.

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