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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Then fix the bureaucracy and logjams, but nothing about pissing off practitioners and nurses is fixing that.
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Oh, I agree for sure. But it seems like this turns into the same kind of discussion we see when it comes to services like policing. You want to restructure and try to improve things and right away it turns into "X" number of police officers off the streets and how can we keep people safe?!
This happens with health care as well. As soon as you bring up the idea of restructuring and reallocation of resources it's a war with frontline staff, two-tiered healthcare and all the usual suspects.
I won't go into details here, but my mom has been in the hospital for the past month or so. Watching this process playout and how things are handled is just plainly ridiculous. It's not a business (and nor should it be, for the record!), but if it were, there would be things that would happen just because it's sensible and would save that business a bunch of money. Instead, the way the system works now, it's just plain expensive and inefficient. With all the boomers aging, these issues are only going to get worse. We have to do something to fix these problems and try to reform this. But, to make this happen someone is going to have to spend a lot of political capital and ruffle a lot of feathers on the way.
And to be entirely clear and forthright, in "my" situation, the issue is not frontline staff. They've been great and there's no issue there. It's the system and the way it "functions". I'm pretty much convinced that if you ran a commission and asked these folks on the frontlines what could work better and how we could streamline things, they'd have the answers. I'm not entirely sure that some of the people higher up the food chain would want to hear it though.