Do Gods in White Exist?

[kushami]

I can see that doctors in Australia are tired and burnt out, but I don't know what to do to help them. I have tried to vote for the party that has policies that support the medical system here. Don't know if that made much difference.

Doctors used to have a lot of power and influence (not always a good thing but could be used for good) but now they seem helpless in the face of overwork and underfunding.

 

[southwestforests]

I can see that doctors in Australia are tired and burnt out, but I don't know what to do to help them. ... but now they seem helpless in the face of overwork and underfunding.

That has got to be a difficult spot to be in.
Given that governments are comprised of humans who have human nature, and they are influenced by a human population who have human nature, I'm not sure how the situation gets improved without first having a fundamental improvement in human nature.

 

[NameHere]

I find it interesting that the institutionalized lack of sleep and constantly overworked state of Medical Students: slams right into their ability to maintain empathy for the sick. What a set up.

I knew of this one doctor who worked 18 hours a day and survived on sodas. All. Day. Long. Sodas. Non-stop. Caffeine. Sodas. Every 30 mins a soda. This is an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. Once I saw that, I never again expected a doctor to understand what a healthy lifestyle is.

I'm in the USA. What we have here is what I call drive-by medicine. If your insurance is paying for the visit, the doctor is only allowed between 15 to 30 mins per patient.

I see doctors like contractors. They don't know everything; they specialize and stick to what is familiar and comfortable. If you are shopping for a builder to build you a concrete home, you are not going to go to a standard builder who builds stick (wooden) homes and ask them to build your concrete home. You are going to find a builder who has already built lots of concrete homes. Same with doctors.

 

[NameHere]

"Presumably educated" is the key word.
In an effort to better understand the cause of my periodically recurring cough, and in light of the limited support I had received from my primary care physician, I took the initiative to investigate further on my own. Anticipating that another brief consultation would once again fail to yield any conclusive findings, I arrived prepared with Petri dish results from preliminary testing I had conducted independently.

To my disappointment, my physician could neither identify the presented evidence nor acknowledge or express any interest in having the results verified by a certified laboratory.
https://swaresearch.blogspot.com/2025/06/aspergillus-trichoderma-and-penicillium.html

PCPs are very "inside the box thinkers" and don't have time to think outside the box. Unfortunately, you'd have to see a doctor who doesn't take insurance, and pay hundreds out of pocket, to find someone who would take interest. And even then, not guaranteed.

I have, so far, seen 2 doctors who don't take insurance in the past 10 years, and wouldn't go back to see them again; they were unhelpful, dismissive, and robotic. Even doctors who don't take insurance usually follow a fixed path and do not want to bother to listen; they have a prescribed one-size-fits-all plan for all their patients and they figure that those patients whom their plan doesn't fit will simply go elsewhere, and they are ok with that.