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Article  26 “Is It Your Intention To Let Government Murder The Medical Profession?”      You must be wondering?  How do the 850,000 physicians in our country feel about government interference in, and control of, your healthcare?  Have you asked your personal physician their thoughts about this issue?  I suspect that your doctor didn’t have the time in their office to talk with you about it.  So, how would you ever get their true feelings about it?  Besides that, most physicians feel reluctant to voice their opinions loudly out in the public arena.  My guess is that 95% of our population has absolutely no idea what doctors actually are concerned about when and if the government takes over healthcare. After 40 some years working in the medical profession as a specialist for the most part, I want you to understand at least what this one physician believes. First, I would like to speak in general terms: What do you think the wide range of physicians that I have had direct person to person interaction with in my career think and do in response to the serious factors affecting the medical profession?  These highly trained and conscientious doctors all over this country since the intrusion of government mandated managed care systems in the 1970’s, have been rather quietly suffering in silence.  You may not have thought of it that way---but, pay attention and I’ll explain. Over the last 40 years this is what has been happening: 1.   A gradual and increasing number of patients have been siphoned away from private practices by managed care groups—so much more difficult to keep a private practice financially stable and functioning. 2.   Government restrictions on medical practice fees (like Medicare, Medi-Cal, Medicaid) have gradually been reduced nearly 60% below the common fees charged to regular patients—so they see the same number of patients, give the same medical treatment, and their practice income drops. 3.   The outrageous medical malpractice jury awards for “pain and suffering” (only that part of the award—not the part that actually provides for the injured person’s care for life which is not at issue here) made the insurance premiums unaffordable to thousands of medical doctors.  It has caused literally hundreds of physicians to quit practice, move to another state where a “CAP” had been placed on the “pain and suffering” award, change careers, greatly restrict their practices to low risk patients, move into non-clinical areas of medicine like research, and directly interferes with recruiting students into a medical career as a physician. 4.   The trial lawyers have successfully prevented any legal caps on medical malpractice awards in most of the states because their incomes are dependent on fees from the outrageous malpractice awards.  In addition, their political lobby power in all of the states congresses, which are primarily attorneys, is enough to easily prevent caps on awards—so, causes the problems listed in #3—so doctors now migrate to the states that have “caps” on malpractice cases proving that caps help physicians survive, and patients receive justifiable verdicts and awards for their injuries. 5.   Over the last ten years physicians incomes have dropped significantly—to the point that present incomes are well below other professionals who have no restrictions on their fees.  And, even below what a high school dropout can make in business, or on the Internet. Second, take a close look at the consequences of these intrusions: 1.   Over the last 20 years physicians have been disappearing.  Not only are medical schools not graduating more doctors, but also new medical schools are not being built.  Well documented surveys of physicians have shown doctors are retiring 20 or so years before physicians usually retire, are quitting medical practice in droves, are moving in great numbers to the overhead protection and malpractice coverage of managed care groups, and are changing careers all together.  It’s well known that the numbers of physicians are decreasing in the USA, in terms of the increasing population demands for physician’s services. 2.   Career tracks into the medical profession are severely compromised.  Let me set the picture for you.  A high school or college student thinking about becoming a physician should do some serious thinking about what the future will hold for new doctors.  If you choose to tell them the truth about the realities, then you need to tell them the following: * The day they graduate from medical school the new doctor will face an average educational debt of about $150,000.   * To start a medical practice following a one year internship, or 3 to 5 year residency training, during which the pay stipend is just about enough to pay for food, clothing, and place to rent, will require $50,000 to $100,000 to obtain office space, furnish it, hire employees, and etc.  Unless doctors are from a wealthy family, a new doctor in starting out with about a $250,000 debt is already in far over his or her head.  Can you imagine what a bank loan officer would say when they are told about the debt and a new doctor without a job at that point—if the doctor needed a loan? * Understanding the risk of medical malpractice suits and the premiums charged for coverage in this lawsuit-happy patient population is enough to frighten anyone away.  Example, OB-GYN malpractice insurance premiums are $100,000 to $250,000 per year in states without a cap.  It means a doctor must earn $250,000 in medical practice and pay the premium, before they can feed their family.  Not many can do that. * Knowing that a successful malpractice suit against them, a doctor can have his medical license taken away, be forced into re-training, be denied licensure in other states, or completely kicked out of the medical profession--all on the whim of 3 doctor board members.  Governor appointees to the state medical boards are required to show allegiance to the government, not to the doctor—even if the board members are all physicians.  It’s a significant risk for any physician who made only a single medical mistake in his career and came before the Board. If you care at all about your own healthcare in the future, you may want to ask your doctor what he or she intends to do when Socialized Medicine is forced on them.  While you are there, you may also want to ask your private doctor when she intends to quit medical practice.  Problem is, you may not want to hear their answer.  The fact is, most of you are supporting the enemy by participating in the one or more of the above mutilation tactics whether you realize it or not.  Do you honestly believe physicians are just going to continue putting up with these preventable and increasing intrusions into the medical profession?  Would you? The author, Curt Graham, is a retired medical doctor who has written extensively on many topics over his 35 plus years in active medical practice.  He is a published author in Modern Physician, and is recognized as an expert author on several topics by many websites including EzineArticles.com, and SelfGrowth.com. Learn how to obtain better medical and health care using easy and quick strategies exposed by this insider physician.  Discover tactics to get top medical care that all others will never know.  Go there now!                  http://www.healthcaresecretsrevealed-finally.com Copyright 2004-2011, L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc., Curt Graham,M.D. All Rights Reserved. Word Count = 1118 Keywords = healthcare,medical practice,physicians,medical treatment,medical malpractice,medical career tracks,doctors Curt Graham, M.D., L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc. 2404 Mason Ave.  Las Vegas, NV 89102 E-mail = cgmdrx(at)gmail.com © Copyright 2004-2011 Curtis Graham, M.D., L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.