{"id":76341,"date":"2022-09-10T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=76341"},"modified":"2022-09-09T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:40:04","slug":"things-have-gone-horribly-wrong-in-american-medicine-for-example-physicians-are-sharing-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/10\/things-have-gone-horribly-wrong-in-american-medicine-for-example-physicians-are-sharing-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"“Things have gone horribly wrong in American medicine; for example, ‘physicians are sharing ideas'”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a> on the American healthcare system’s descent into not just “rule by experts” — which you rather expect for a field like medicine — but the far worse “rule by government<\/em>-approved experts”:<\/p>\n

Our $3.7 trillion medical system is characterized by its fragility<\/em>, the narrative says, with patients who can’t get treatment and doctors who can’t learn. So what’s gone wrong? Here’s the headline, with a whole universe of silly assumptions baked into every word:<\/p>\n

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Things have gone horribly wrong in American medicine; for example, “physicians are sharing ideas”.<\/p>\n

I’m just taking a moment to stare at my own sentence. Be right back.<\/p>\n

Anyway, medicine is broken \u2014 doctors are thinking<\/em>. Sick people show up to see them, and they try to figure it out themselves<\/em> by using, like, evidence and diagnostic practice and their medical knowledge. Lacking government directives, physicians are living with a horrible system in which they have to assess sick people and come up with their own answers about their illnesses and the best course of treatment. And so, Politico<\/em> reports, networks of doctors are gathering to share data and work collaboratively, a sure sign that things have gone horribly wrong:<\/p>\n