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🗓️ 30 June 2023
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0:00.0 | Yeah, I think people might kind of trust the individual doctor if they are fortunate enough |
0:06.2 | to be in a place where they can develop a relationship with an individual doctor. |
0:10.3 | But, you know, in the abstract, the field of doctors, yeah, I think there's a lot of |
0:18.2 | distrust and even hatred there. |
0:21.4 | Yeah, and part of that is because the American Medical Association has worked for a hundred |
0:26.6 | years to restrict the flow of doctors into the workplace in order to drive up their rates, |
0:33.1 | right? |
0:34.1 | They've been the most successful professional organization in the world at elevating |
0:39.8 | their professional class to like God-like levels, right? |
0:44.0 | So where the average starting doctor salary is something like 350,000, which they justify |
0:49.6 | because they say, well, yeah, we have a million dollars in medical school bills or whatever |
0:54.4 | it is. |
0:55.4 | It's like a ridiculous system. |
0:57.8 | You should be churning out, you know, two, three times as many doctors as you're doing because |
1:02.3 | there's no shortage of applicants in medical schools. |
1:05.8 | And they should have starting salaries that don't signal to them that they are many God-demigods, |
1:13.6 | you know, roaming the earth and curing people at their whim, you know, like they should |
1:18.0 | have a much more, there should be much less space, culturally and socioeconomically between |
1:25.7 | them and the public that they treat. |
1:28.0 | Yeah. |
1:29.0 | And unfortunately, like, I mean, for rhetorical purposes, like a lot of people who, you |
1:36.1 | know, agree with us about either single-player health insurance or more preferably just |
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