Do doctors really deserve taking high consultation fees?

Jan 22 28 Comments

I am on cholestrol controlling medication. Last couple of years, doctors repeatedly ordered lipid blood tests and he continued same medicine for years.
Same thing for other health issues as well and based on test results what number going up/down doctors recommend medicine.
What different they are doing? For engineers, we have appraisal system and we have to perform well above on those criteria but doctors enjoy their life. I see my primary doctor and cardiologist remains on vacation most part of the year.
IMO, Actual work is done by scientists, doctors are just taking high consultation fees.
Any thoughts?

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  • Wayfair / Eng
    young-monk

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     young-monk
    do engs deserve those high TCs for writing for loops? it's all supply and demand
    Jan 22 3
    • Splunk
      Gill.Bates

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      Gill.Bates
      Then why loop syntax keeps on changing on yoy. I mean language, framework nd all sheet
      Jan 22
    • Wayfair / Eng
      young-monk

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       young-monk
      i have seen enough bugs go out to prod, create million dollar business impact, and they still get promoted. i know a dev who wrote some software which flagged an innocent person as a criminal, and nothing happened to that dev.

      if a dev makes a serious mistake worst thing will be a PIP and they can find another job. if doc makes serious mistake they can lose license to practice

      also you are failing to understand supply and demand equation here. there aren't enough docs in market so they can rate whatever they want to charge. if you want competitive prices then have more kids actually interested in becoming doctors
      Jan 22
  • Arent software developers just leveraging innovations created by others as well? Plus no one usually dies if techies screw up...
    Jan 22 8
    • Wayfair / Eng
      young-monk

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       young-monk
      no wonder medical industry is broken af in this country. well it's boomers who are gonna suffer first because of their own boomer ways...maybe someone will fix it before i get old
      Jan 22
    • New
      uILH07

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      uILH07
      Anticompetition? Medicine is super competitive. The constrained supply is because there are not enough physicians who can teach for it to meet standards. If you have to do 2000 surgical cases before you are competent, you can have an unlimited number of surgeons because there is constraint on the number of teaching physicians and teaching cases. No boot camps for this
      Jan 24
  • New
    niPo64

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    niPo64
    I agree. Most of the work of your average doctor is like a hair stylist - just listening to patient and applying the same few things over and over. Only a few innovate and publish research based on their experiences, mostly surgeons
    Jan 22 0
  • Amazon
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    No.

    There is much ado about competition in tech, but doctors have designed a system to ensure that there is no price or quality transparency in healthcare, and therefore no price or quality competition. A third hospitals are even breaking the law by refusing to post their prices since a year after a late 2020 federal regulation mandating them to do so. (How did we not have the regulation on the books till 2020?? you can thank AMA and AHA lobbying.) And want to find out the complications rate of a surgery at your local hospital? Good luck with that.

    I don't care about whether they *seem* to work hard or whether they seem to be a very creative bunch. I care about the fact that their industry is rigged to have no competition. And the statistics show it - we have the most expensive healthcare system in the world as a percentage of GDP with the worst outcomes in the developed world (highest maternal mortality for procedures totally in control of doctors, along with overall mortality).
    Jan 22 2
    • New
      uILH07

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      uILH07
      Amazon is absolutely clueless. Maternal mortality depends on the overall health of the population and Americans have worse obesity and habits compared to many other developed countries. Also they are more aggressive about saving premies (down to 24 weeks) compared to other countries which would abort these fetuses and not count this towards procedural mortality. Did anyone teach you about confounding variables? Also what exactly makes your job so noble and difficult that you can look down on an entire profession whose entire goal is to keep you healthy? You probably wouldn’t make it through training. There is a reason why US MD training is accepted around the world and not visa versa.

      It is not rigged to have no competition. The fact is that medicine and surgery is a trade skill which requires mentoring and 1:1 teaching. You can’t just learn it on YouTube or Google. There are only a limited amount of doctors and a limited amount of patients who will let trainees work on them.

      If it was truly a free market, doctors could charge you up the ass and take a percentage of future tc for saving your life.
      Jan 24
    • New
      uILH07

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      uILH07
      Source: family member is a doctor
      Jan 24
  • Google
    304 58008

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    Ever had surgery?
    Jan 22 2
    • OP
      Yes twice. If a doctor has done surgery multiple times and taking advantages of high tech machines which all doctors taking help from. It's a repetitive task for them. And they ask to fill the form that if something wrong happens then they are not responsible. Anyways..I was not talking about surgeons in general.
      Jan 22
    • New
      uILH07

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      uILH07
      Uh my family member is a surgeon. That shit is hard- most people don’t have the mental fortitude or spatial awareness or dexterity to pull it off. It is a repetitive task that they make look easy because they’ve practiced so many times and more importantly, know how to deal with complications. The hubris in this thread from fellow code monkeys is unreal
      Jan 24