Eric, thank you for your wonderful breakdown as always. I am an Addiction medicine physician. Due to burn out and other issues, I decided to go locums mostly, while doing some non related side gigs. I am licensed in 6 states, waiting for an additional one. For the LIFE of me, I CANNOT find addiction medicine assignments in nearly any state. I am happy to travel, I even take below market hourly rates (which is wildly unfair), only because I love what I do. Most of my gigs to keep busy over the year have to be primary care or hospitalist gigs because I can’t find steady employment in Addiction. My point is, everyone is talking about addiction. Major networks and TH-cam channels make very entertaining reports and documentaries about addiction with millions of views. Politicians talk about it everyday. Doctors demand more specialists on this. Yet ABSOLUTELY NO ONE wants to hire or pay us to take on these patients, advise on policy or consult on these issues. Everyone is a hipocrite who loves to virtue signal and point out the problem, but no one wants to spend a dime on treatment or prevention.
Thank you for your detailed comment. I’ve seen addiction medicine doctors who have cash only practices for wealthy patients along with a residential treatment center. Outside of that, I don’t know what the other options are.
Eric, please never stop. What you put on your channel is genuinely fascinating. You're building a library of knowledge for us to learn from. We love it!
Thank you for sharing, nice topic, hope politicians have those numbers to reflect and refresh their health policies, it looks like is not enough people to treat them ( no number of doctors or nurses or psychologist; if you have 1 train doctor for 100.000 people, maybe is not enough). And how about prevention and education on this people. Is smoking not an addiction? It's very interesting to see that 10% of seniors are addicted to food, but do you know the whole number, for the entire population of USA, addicted to food? Thank you for your video!😊
Are their enough addictive medicine fellowships available to meet the needs of applicants in the US? Each patient needs a multi-disciplinary approach in order to overcome these challenges. It would be unfotunate if patients are seeking assistance, but like many other specialties, there is a national shortage of trained staff. In reference to your last video, we need to get to students at the high school level to peak their interest in LPN, RN, NP, PA, and MSW-clinical. Indeed, facinating occapations that both pay well and help communities thrive.
Thank you for another informative video. As a follow up question to your point about people with addiction costing 2.6x more, does that mean employers need to pay 2.6x more when insuring these individuals, or did you mean that individuals with addiction cost the healthcare system 2.6x more in general?
I think that addiction perhaps shows why private healthcare is a highly inefficient system. Good public health policies could do a lot in this area. Yet, the government has little incentive to do much. The first reason there being that lobbyists primarily control the direction of the government, especially when it comes to food and pharmaceuticals. Second is that CMS is only a fraction of the healthcare system. Ideally the incentives would be aligned such that the people who control the policy are also the people who run the healthcare system, and have to face the costs of poor public health instead of putting on it insurance companies, employers, and patients. This sort of thing is also why addiction is heavily stigmatized. It represents a collective failure of society, yet in the US everything is looked at in the frame of individual responsibility. So, people don't like to talk about it, in the same way people don't like to talk obesity medicine, or even worse, they don't see obesity as a real medical issue.
Sir im from India i have questions is is it possible to own hospital in Canada or USA without being doctor being as a businesan . Can you build your own hospital as a businessman if yes how much does it cost build
Eric, thank you for your wonderful breakdown as always.
I am an Addiction medicine physician. Due to burn out and other issues, I decided to go locums mostly, while doing some non related side gigs. I am licensed in 6 states, waiting for an additional one. For the LIFE of me, I CANNOT find addiction medicine assignments in nearly any state. I am happy to travel, I even take below market hourly rates (which is wildly unfair), only because I love what I do. Most of my gigs to keep busy over the year have to be primary care or hospitalist gigs because I can’t find steady employment in Addiction.
My point is, everyone is talking about addiction. Major networks and TH-cam channels make very entertaining reports and documentaries about addiction with millions of views. Politicians talk about it everyday. Doctors demand more specialists on this. Yet ABSOLUTELY NO ONE wants to hire or pay us to take on these patients, advise on policy or consult on these issues. Everyone is a hipocrite who loves to virtue signal and point out the problem, but no one wants to spend a dime on treatment or prevention.
Thank you for your detailed comment. I’ve seen addiction medicine doctors who have cash only practices for wealthy patients along with a residential treatment center. Outside of that, I don’t know what the other options are.
Eric, please never stop. What you put on your channel is genuinely fascinating. You're building a library of knowledge for us to learn from. We love it!
so true
Thank you for your feedback.
Great work 👍👍👍
Thank you for your feedback.
Thank you for sharing, nice topic, hope politicians have those numbers to reflect and refresh their health policies, it looks like is not enough people to treat them ( no number of doctors or nurses or psychologist; if you have 1 train doctor for 100.000 people, maybe is not enough). And how about prevention and education on this people. Is smoking not an addiction?
It's very interesting to see that 10% of seniors are addicted to food, but do you know the whole number, for the entire population of USA, addicted to food?
Thank you for your video!😊
Thank you for sharing the video.
Are their enough addictive medicine fellowships available to meet the needs of applicants in the US? Each patient needs a multi-disciplinary approach in order to overcome these challenges. It would be unfotunate if patients are seeking assistance, but like many other specialties, there is a national shortage of trained staff. In reference to your last video, we need to get to students at the high school level to peak their interest in LPN, RN, NP, PA, and MSW-clinical. Indeed, facinating occapations that both pay well and help communities thrive.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for another informative video. As a follow up question to your point about people with addiction costing 2.6x more, does that mean employers need to pay 2.6x more when insuring these individuals, or did you mean that individuals with addiction cost the healthcare system 2.6x more in general?
The former. Need to pay 2.6X more.
I think that addiction perhaps shows why private healthcare is a highly inefficient system. Good public health policies could do a lot in this area. Yet, the government has little incentive to do much. The first reason there being that lobbyists primarily control the direction of the government, especially when it comes to food and pharmaceuticals. Second is that CMS is only a fraction of the healthcare system. Ideally the incentives would be aligned such that the people who control the policy are also the people who run the healthcare system, and have to face the costs of poor public health instead of putting on it insurance companies, employers, and patients. This sort of thing is also why addiction is heavily stigmatized. It represents a collective failure of society, yet in the US everything is looked at in the frame of individual responsibility. So, people don't like to talk about it, in the same way people don't like to talk obesity medicine, or even worse, they don't see obesity as a real medical issue.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Where does Cannabis fall into this grid?
Sir im from India i have questions is is it possible to own hospital in Canada or USA without being doctor being as a businesan . Can you build your own hospital as a businessman if yes how much does it cost build
Don’t know about Canada. In US, yes. Each state has their own rules. Hundreds of millions.
Dr. Bricker-does noradrenalin play a role in drug addiction? 🃏🎱🎲
It could. The biochemical pathways in addiction are not fully understood.
@@ahealthcarez Ah, OK. Thank you.