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I recently watched my friend, a dedicated doctor, walk away from his job at a local hospital. Why? Overcrowded conditions, largely fueled by an influx of illegal immigrants seeking care. This isn’t just a number; it’s a crisis.
My friend poured his heart into his work, but every day became a battle against a never ending tide of patients. The emergency room was jam packed, and he struggled to give everyone the attention they needed. With each shift, he felt more and more powerless. The moment he lost a patient due to delays connected to overcrowding? That was the breaking point. He couldn’t bear to be part of a system that failed in such a fundamental way.
His resignation sent ripples through the hospital. Colleagues shared their frustrations, highlighting how this situation isn’t just about illegal immigration, it’s about real people suffering because our healthcare system is stretched to its limits. We need to wake up! Illegal immigration is adding pressure where it’s already bursting. Healthcare workers are dedicated, but when they can’t provide the proper care, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
My friend’s decision was heartbreaking but necessary. It highlights how urgent reform is needed. We must invest in healthcare infrastructure and support our medical professionals to handle the growing number of patients. Let’s advocate for a system that works for everyone, addressing the challenges of illegal immigration alongside patient care. We deserve a healthcare system we can believe in before it collapses under pressure.
Yea my friend is an anesthesiologist and his hospital worked him and his group down to the bone. They only had 15 anesthesiologists in the group when the hospital had a workload for 23. to My friend was constantly working long hours taking 24 hour shifts.
With both the illegal immigrants and the Medicaid patients the group thought they were massively underpaid. The chairman of my friends group tried to negotiate with the hospital CEO for more money for the group of 15 doing the work of 23 but the hospital refused.
So not only is my friend walking out but the whole group is planning on walking out on the hospital.
But if you ask your friend whether they should expand the supply of doctors by making the pathway to medical school easier, he'd probably disagree.
It's not just about the doctors though they are only one slice of the issue. The critical shortage we have and are failing to address is the nursing/support staff shortage. When you dont have these people the doctors have to absorb some of the load as well as spread it out to other nurses.
The other critical issue is the 1997 change that froze the number of Medicare-funded residency slots effectively capping it so the US, even with schools full cant catch up. Universities and hospitals have and continued to rely on Medicare funding for residency training, reimbursing teaching hospitals for a portion of resident stipends and associated teaching costs. These schools and hospitals can easily put forth the investment to address the cap but have refused to do so. I mean when a doc is graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt the least their tuition could go to is part of that.
I doubt it. He had a hard road to get where he is today.
> write a personal blog post about how overcrowded hospitals caused my good doctor friend to walk off his job at a hospital.
> great, now make the hospital overcrowded by immigrants
> great, now everywhere you see "immi" put illegal in front of it
> great, now make the post shorter, punchier, less literate, more passionate, and persuasive.
> great, now remove the headers and emdashes
You fucking retards.
Yeah at my local community meeting the county police blatantly said he wasn’t going to help or support ICE.
The Feds are fighting an uphill battle but I understand I was going to do a post about how illegal immigration caused my good doctor friend to walk off his job at a hospital.