tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132427796601033173.post930121191947999454..comments2022-04-03T09:17:14.074-04:00Comments on No Match MDs: NoMatchMDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321491139587924555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132427796601033173.post-15906058734110186752017-07-11T19:43:03.470-04:002017-07-11T19:43:03.470-04:00Imagine that the Union determines the number of wo...Imagine that the Union determines the number of workers who enter the labor market, then no wonder how high the wages would go, that is what the medical establishment is doing especially the American Medical "Union" (AMA). The ACGME is not neutral, when it evaluates new residency program, say in dermatology, for approval it sends committee of dermatologists. Imagine the conflict of interest in approving program which will produce future rivals for them in the market.<br />Congress and States Medical Boards should not rely on them by giving medical teaching money for hospitals accredited by them and for licensing doctors trained in programs accredited by them, respectively. I say to both the Academic Medicine and Dr. Nasca who try to diminish the unmatched doctors, let's assume that all 43,000 doctors who registered for NRMP 2017, according to the NRMP, had Noble Prize for Medicine or Physiology then you would have seen 12,000 unmatched doctors, according to the NRMP, with Noble Prize.<br />The medical establishment, AMA, AHA, ACGME, and AAMC should not be allowed to protect socialist medical system in capitalist society by having control on the residency positions. AHA should not have monopoly on training residents. There should be commonsense national standers for teaching hospitals and for the state licensure. Many hospitals outside the states are willing to meet those standers so that those unmatched doctors can make their training in them, with lower cost to the medicare, and meet their state licensure requirements.<br />We are capitalist society, and the market and not the lobby of the AMA should determine the number of doctors in the market. When the number of doctors exceeds the market needs then the doctors would get lower salaries and the market would adjust itself by attracting fewer people to the profession until the market reaches the equilibrium between the supply and the demand for doctors and not by artificial number of doctors that the AMA is trying to dictate. Jack Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16058408234852989136noreply@blogger.com