The Documentary of Medical Doctors Who Became Doctors Yet Some Left Clinical Practice

 The Documentary of Medical Doctors Who Became Doctors Yet Some Left Clinical Practice

In the 2000s, there was a documentary on PBS that described the life of medical students who became practicing doctors and left clinical practice. The documentary followed a group of about 8-10 medical students who were accepted to medical school, graduated, passed residency exams, and went into medical practice. Most of the doctors were practicing doctors in their own medical practice or working in a hospital. The interesting point was that most of the 8-10 doctors had decided to leave practice and intead went on to help their communities by instructing preventative medicine. About 7 doctors left clinical practice to instruct preventative medicine in the 1990s or 2000s.

Since the 1980s, experienced primary care physicians have also written about how medicine was changing and not for the better. On Kevin, MD (a medical blog that had expert doctors and exposed corruption prior to covid) in the 2010s, physicians exposed the incongruencies and bureaucracy encroachment on medicine described in insurance companies attempting to take authority and independence from physicians. Since the 1980s, insurance companies were attempting to prevent doctors from ordering needed treatment and diagnostic materials when the insurance companies decided. Physicians since the 1980s described that the golden days of medicine were past in the 1970s. Some experienced primary care physicians left practice in the 1980s preferring autonomy and independence.

The physicians of the documentary were some of the brightest of that generation in the 1990s or 2000s attending one of the top med schools (prior to covid and without non-compete). The physicians graduated and practiced medicine. However 7 out of the 10 had left clinical practice. Initially, there was the question of how could physicians have left clinical practice in the 2000s. It may be that the physicians saw that there was decreased autonomy and independence in medicine. It may be that insurance bureaucracies were attempting to take autonomy from physicians. It may be that medical practice had changed. It may be that physicians were supposed to spend less time with each patient (especially in primary care and psychiatry). It may be that they saw preventative medicine as a better manner to decrease disease through exercise and diet counseling instead. 

Most physicians go into medical school because they want to help others. There is also the mental stimulation of needing to learn everyday. There is the reward of being able to use talents for good. There is the curiosity of discovery in research or science. All these are good reasons for wanting to go into medicine. Those who left clinical practice describe how helping others was more important to them than other things. (There were also amazing doctors who kept practicing. There was an amazing ophtalmologist who gave free eye exams and glasses to children in countries that did not have a medical infrastructure nor ophtalmologists.) Yet it is interesting how most of the doctors from that documentary left practice to be health promoters or instruct preventative medicine in the 1990s or 2000s. The documentary along with articles of physicians who described the reality of medicine since the 1980s have allowed for the truth to be understood. This is with the understanding of how the big pharma monopoly has also encroached into medicine described in Dr. Abramson's book, Overdo$ed America, since the 2000s. Dr. Abramson also left practice to devote himself to writing truth about how pharmaceutical companies have compromised medical practice in primary care through dishonesty and promoting newer expensive (and even dangerous) non-generic medication (i.e. Pravachol) based on compromised medical journal articles instead of exercise and diet counseling. Big pharma and the insurance bureacracy has also attempted to prevent the doctor-patient relationship from helping the patient improve through honesty, empathy, and encouragement by decreasing patient visit times in primary care. This would explain why physicians have left medicine since the 1980s and is described in the documentary. (With covid experimental "vaccines", there was the need to be vaccinated in order to compete for residency slots and even experienced practicing physicians were prevented from working if they were not covid "vaccinated". There is a shortage of physicians and experienced physicians are not common (there are the stats of how there is maybe 1 physician per 500 people in some states), yet there was the need to prevent experienced physicians from working if they did not have covid "vaccines". Why would non-"vaccinated" physicians not be allowed to work if they had multiple years of experience practicing medicine? (The same applied to nurses who were not "vaccinated" and there were also shortages of nursing staff throughout the US in 2020. If experienced nurses were not "vaccinated", they were not allowed to work. Courageous nurses wanted to work and help patients, yet were not allowed to unless they were covid "compliant".) This describes another discrepancy of the covid narrative.

No Regrets Concerning Not Returning to Med School

Despite not being able to return to medical school, I was able to gain perspective from other physicians who decided to leave clinical practice despite having passed medical school exams, USMLE boards, rotations, residency, and even practiced for multiple years. There are multiple stories of physicians who left clinical practice to start over in another profession. The stories are not few since the 1980s. There are multiple physicians that decided to leave busy clinical practices in order to have autonomy far from the medical system that has attempted to decrease the autonomy and authority of physicians in Primary Care. Dr. Abramson left practice to write books and articles on the corrupt pharmaceutical companies attempts to diminish autonomy to Primary Care Physicians.

There were multiple physicians on Kevin, MD (prior to covid) who described that medicine was not what it once was. Primary Care Physicians with decades of experience described that insurance companies were attempting to diminish the autonomy of Primary Care Physicians in the practice of medicine. Primary Care Physicians were told that they had to treat based on the recommendations of the insurance companies and not on their clinical acumen since the 1980s when insurance companies cared more about profits than clinical care. Even HMOs that initially looked to suppress the cost of rising medical costs were opposed and attacked by the media and socialists. Effective and efficient HMOs in the 80s provided great and inexpensive medical care that socialists did not want. Socialists wanted medical costs to balloon to double digit percentages (medical costs inflated 2% each year initially but reached 10% increases in the 80s) each year so that money would go to pharmaceutical companies. The patient visits were reduced to 15 minutes to maximize prescription of medication instead of counseling. The socialists probably wanted to minimize the doctor-patient relationship in order to favor expensive medication. Physicians that spent more than 15 minutes on a patient visit were penalized like the Psychiatrist who was removed from her position as Pediatric Psychiatrist for spending too much time with her patients. It is a well known fact that empathy, reciprocity, and both physician and patient working together to improve the patient's health is great medicine. It is also a well known fact that diet and exercise counseling can be more beneficial than non-generic, newer, and expensive medication that were approved in haste (i.e. Pravachol, Vioxx, Celebrex, Quinaglute, Norpace, Rezulin, Fossamax, and Actonel to name a few dangerous medications). Socialists despised the doctor-patient relationship in Primary Care since good Primary Care can prevent chronic diseases and improve patient care. I can be grateful that I did not need to get vaccinated with an experimental "vaccine" designed by socialists (that last 6 months yet was made in 9 months) and also not have to speak lies promoting an experimental "vaccine". I am grateful that there were Primary Care Physicians who spoke out against the lies of the media and told the truth despite being envied by socialist sycophants who wanted to prevent the doctor patient relationship, discourage the use of cost saving HMOs, promote bad medication, and increase medical costs artificially. Socialism is the reason medicine has also declined significantly since the 1980s.