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Germany faces a critical shortage of health-care workers, with 47,400 unfilled positions in 2023/2024, particularly for physiotherapists (11,600 vacancies), dental assistants (7,350), and nursing staff (7,100), according to a study by the German Economic Institute (IW).

The aging population is driving increased health-care demand, with those aged 65+ projected to rise from 21% to 29% by 2030.

The study highlights a broader labor market issue, with over 530,000 skilled worker vacancies across all industries, including 42,000 in construction-related fields.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GP without doctor is just a consequence of the vast majority of doctoral thesis in medicine, for ages, having been slop without academic value. You don't need to be a good researcher to be a good healer, to know what you're doing, and if you want to spend your career setting bones then there's probably not much to research to be had in that area, anyway, so why force practitioners to come up with random stuff to investigate.

Did you know that you can become Heilpraktiker with Hauptschulabschluss, though? The only real requirement is the Gesundheitsamt judging you to not be an active hazard to patients and you can practice medicine. With or without scare quotes, from martial artists doing off-brand physiotherapy to complete but "studied" quacks like homeopaths.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw where this was going. You have a thing against studying.

I don't know what you mean with the second paragraph. I already don't believe in that sort of voodoo. Keep in mind, Germany invented much of that bullshit. They still hawk homeopathic mumbo jumbo at pharmacies

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I saw where this was going. You have a thing against studying.

Not at all. Learning pointless stuff and producing pointless doctorates is not studying it's wasting time and effort. Whatever happened to the virtue of laziness.

I don’t know what you mean with the second paragraph. I already don’t believe in that sort of voodoo.

The physiotherapy part isn't voodoo it's just off-brand.

They still hawk homeopathic mumbo jumbo at pharmacies

You could call it placebopathic and people would still go for it because wanting symbolic reinforcement of your wishes is a very human thing. Medicine shouldn't be in the business of telling humanity how to be on a fundamental level, that's a battle for philosophers, but in the business of providing health. The current situation around homeopathy is not ideal, especially those prices for sugar cubes are ludicrous, but this reductive "everyone's an idiot and everything's pointless" attitude isn't making it any better, either. What would your way to kiss a boo-boo be?