03/16/10
At: CNS News
Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if
Health-Care Reform Bill Passes, New England Journal of Medicine Says
By Christopher Neefus
(CNSNews.com) - Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the
medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care
reform legislation into law, according to a survey published in the latest issue
of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Primary-care physicians, those who work in the critical fields of family and internal medicine, not only feel that they would want to quit but that they might be cast out of medicine. 46.3 percent of those physicians said that they would either want to leave medicine or that they would be “forced out” by the changes to the system.
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Click here to read the article at CNS News. Then hang onto your lunch pail because it's going to get bumpy. More patients competing for fewer doctors and a lot of us with no or inadequate insurance.
In the near future I'll be putting together a links page with medical and first aid manuals for home treatment. For now, the following sites are good starting points:
westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/ military first aid and medical manuals in left column under "Practical Resources".
Good luck and stay healthy.