It's really an indictment of how far HN has fallen to Redditification* that you see this kind of low-brow ignorance so prevalently and so often.
Yes, the greedy doctors who are lucky to get a couple hours of medical coding training when they start practicing and get needled constantly by their billing department for underbilling actually have "years of learning" in how to screw over their patients.
Maybe they mean the man-years of time wasted arguing with insurance companies, shuffling around medications and care plans to please them, evenings and weekends spent in the EHR finishing up patient notes (because there's no time to get them done during the working day with 20 minute visits) and correcting and signing off on patient care for the PAs and NPs (cold-heartedly taking 100% of the malpractice risk burden for the nurses who actually care about "healing").
I'd encourage people this far gone on the deep end of visualizing physicians as hand-rubbing greed machines to spend a day actually shadowing one. Because you are very ignorant about how they spend their time and the amount of effort they put into caring for patients in spite of continual soul-crushing roadblocks put in their path.
* Yeah I know it's against site rules to say but I don't care it's true
Yes, the greedy doctors who are lucky to get a couple hours of medical coding training when they start practicing and get needled constantly by their billing department for underbilling actually have "years of learning" in how to screw over their patients.
Maybe they mean the man-years of time wasted arguing with insurance companies, shuffling around medications and care plans to please them, evenings and weekends spent in the EHR finishing up patient notes (because there's no time to get them done during the working day with 20 minute visits) and correcting and signing off on patient care for the PAs and NPs (cold-heartedly taking 100% of the malpractice risk burden for the nurses who actually care about "healing").
I'd encourage people this far gone on the deep end of visualizing physicians as hand-rubbing greed machines to spend a day actually shadowing one. Because you are very ignorant about how they spend their time and the amount of effort they put into caring for patients in spite of continual soul-crushing roadblocks put in their path.
* Yeah I know it's against site rules to say but I don't care it's true