Like sorry dude but unless he was a really bad doctor, he should be forced to go back to his old job. Humanity needs medical professionals more than it needs comic actors. It takes like ten years to train a replacement doctor.

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[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 46 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The number of doctors is generally limited by doctors to keep salaries artificially high.

There is also significant opposition to allowing other medical professionals to undertake basic activities that are traditionally the domain of doctors.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

FYI it's limited by doctors lobbying. Residency programs are funded by Congress, and the amount of spending was capped in 1997 and only raised once since, in 2021. And even the doctors are saying it's too low now.

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 26 points 8 hours ago

Even between doctors different specialities fight each other to maintain a monopoly on certain procedures, like gastroenterologists and general/gastric surgeon with endoscopy, or any time general practitioners take on a more specialised role to meet a community need, the relevant specialists will complain and denigrate them.