Where Have All The Doctors Gone?
I have done no research on this topic other than personal experience. Being an old geezer, I regularly visit a number of doctors who specialize in various branches of medicine. Other than my G.P. doctor, I attend a cardiologist, an endocrinologist, a neurologist, and an urologist. Within the past year, the following has occurred: The endocrinologist sold his practice to another practice which has three locations in the area. The other three M.D.'s have retired. The endocrinologist's practice has been taken over by a group of Indian and Syrian doctors, who were educated overseas but got their board certifications and residencies in the USA. I have yet to find a replacement neurologist, however, my G.P. is doing a good job as a substitute. I have interviewed several urologists and so far, have I have not been satisfied. I did find a cardiologist. He is a young local man educated in Florida. He's not a M.D. but a D.O. However, his references are A1..
As my wife and I searched we had a revelation. There were in our area, hardly any American educated M.D.'s practicing in my here. As you all know, the internet is the mighty Wizard of Information who puts the whole world into my computer.At first, mainly out of curiosity, I tried to find American educated M.D.'s or at the very least a doctor who spoke English in a way that I could easily understand. I searched within my town, then adjacent towns, then cities further away. Finally, I wound up at the largest city in the area, but it was over 30 miles away.
Has anyone had a similar experience?Has becoming a M.D. lost its prestige or ability to produce income? Was Obamacare a contributing factor? What, if anything, is going on?
As my wife and I searched we had a revelation. There were in our area, hardly any American educated M.D.'s practicing in my here. As you all know, the internet is the mighty Wizard of Information who puts the whole world into my computer.At first, mainly out of curiosity, I tried to find American educated M.D.'s or at the very least a doctor who spoke English in a way that I could easily understand. I searched within my town, then adjacent towns, then cities further away. Finally, I wound up at the largest city in the area, but it was over 30 miles away.
Has anyone had a similar experience?Has becoming a M.D. lost its prestige or ability to produce income? Was Obamacare a contributing factor? What, if anything, is going on?
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My thoughts on the examples you gave for the three strike law #1 that's like smashing your thumb and then sticking your hand in a meat grinder.
#2 maybe a burglar who is caught and another burglary is attributed wrongly, oh well. Kind of like a known liar who tells the truth about something and complains cause they are not believed.
#3 Huge business because of its illegalization.
Both on the trafficking and enforcement. It is obviously a war that is unwinable. They don't belong with murderers or rapists .
Just my thoughts.
I imagined paying cash to fix together the damage from Mountain Dew, Taco Bell, and Xanax. I've given up Mountain Dew and Taco Bell, so two out of three.... I'm 42 y/o and still feel great. I need to start looking to some neighboring country (Canada or Mexico?) in case my youthful bad habits catch up with me.
It is legal for an Alabama corrections officer to shoot an escaping convicted felon in the back.
That's what I was aiming at and I swore to do my duty. Was mentally prepared to do.
There's also what a felon I allowed to escape may do to encountered innocents to consider.
Retired, I don't have to worry about that anymore.
Thank God. That's messed up.
Yes. Just disgraceful. It cheapens the law, furthers the idea that laws are just a fig leaf for arbitrary power.
So if you #1 badly beat someone up for sleeping with your wife, #2 got scared and plea bargained a reduced sentence guilty for a burglary you're falsely accused of and then #3 got caught as a druggie because your life sucks--you get free room and board for the rest of your life! But no steak, baked potato or fried chicken.
I had a reputation for treating inmates fairly even though there was times I was forced to use force and I also fired three warning shots from towers.
As for that last warning shot, I would have shot the inmate if he had not stopped trying to escape.
That was the only time I took aim at a human being's center mass. But he decided that he was done that day.
Addictionblog.org says it should be labeled that.
http://addictionblog.org/the-news/is-...
I used to supervise such enterprising young men and would send them to their cells by shouting, "Lock down!"
Unfortunately, hooked up users were doing time in that prison too.
A little later I joined the Alabama Department of Corrections for 21 years. Back problems do run in my family, though.
I remember being prescribed stuff like that for an arthritis flare-up. That was four or fiver years ago and other times further back, but I never became a druggie.
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