Comment by kulahan
We need more of all healthcare professionals. Nurses and CNAs are getting run ragged just the same.
We need more of all healthcare professionals. Nurses and CNAs are getting run ragged just the same.
I’m very ready to have a conversation about whether or not there is a point where we should stop advancing healthcare because people probably shouldn’t be immortal, but doing it by making your healthcare workers struggle under the extreme weight of all the patients they need to care for probably is not the approach.
I simply don’t think we have the medical knowledge necessary yet to know what the “right” number of health care professionals is.
Have you heard of Iatrogenesis?
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
> In 2013, an estimated 142,000 persons died from adverse effects of medical treatment, up from an estimated 94,000 in 1990.
Careful what you wish for!
And, imo, an awful lot of deaths are due to issues that cannot be classified as caused by doctors - eg dosage error over time, something that mitigates symptoms but allows the underlying to deteriorate, etc.