An Original Photographic of "Poseidon On the Atlantic" by mkrause, copyright, 2004, 2011 at mkrause54@yahoo.com or mkrause381@gmail.com.
Poseidon was a major Greek god of several cities. In Athens Poseidon was considered second only to Athena. In most Greek cities, Zeus god of the sky was considered the most important god.
Poseidon often is seen positively, creating new islands and offering calm seas. But, when offended, Poseidon the "Earth-shaker" would strike the ground with his Trident causing chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings, and shipwrecks. Poseidon is thought to have created the salty ocean seas when striking his Trident into the ground.
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Facing the Facts (Continued):
4. Be aware that medical schools and medical centers are high-risk areas for identity theft.
Lots of people are attracted by the prestige of being called "Doctor" and the perceived respect, power, and of course money, particularly through insurance reimbursements. Many of these are not willing to finish high school, graduate from a 4-year college or university, or undergo the time and expense of applying to, then studying and working to graduate from a school of medicine.
Identity theft and impostering seem to have become mcre common in the very difficult US economy. At the end of the day, the amount of medical and other insurance monies stolen by imposters in "computerized medical insurance billing" schemes undoubtedly will be astronomical, beyond the millions into the billions.
The harms done to the real doctor are manifold: personal and professional reputation, bill collecting, tax collecting, the doctor in the worst cases is blocked from his or her own career as medical insurance money is diverted from the real doctor and funnelled to imposters and insurance industry insiders.
Currently, there is a curious confluence of 4 major factors diminishing the medical profession. (1) Affirmative action often is misunderstood as equal to take another's salary, despite no achievement of equal education and credentials.
(2) Immigration patterns have changed with increased demands by ethnic and racial groups to be included without achieving standard credentials. Newcomers want the bigger jobs and salaries now, not 3 or more generations later as often is the pattern with North Atlantic and European immigrant families from the 1850s.
(3) As de-regulation has progressed and money has become the most important factor, the average patient cannot be sure their doctor or other health care provider is who he or she says he or she is.
(4) Paradoxically, with de-regulation financial and increasing political/governmental pressures have diminished the role of physician-led state medical boards in regulating their own profession. The bankruptcy of the Nationwide insurance companies which provided private, the partially government-related Medicare A and B programs, and government-subsidized Medicaid ("welfare"} medical insurance allowed federal bankruptcy judges and others to step in to control and divert the flow of money through medical practice.
Not knowing many lawyers felt that doctors were a "natural enemy", many doctors were surprised by the animosity of the attorney attack on medicine and medical money. This was a victory of lawyers over doctors: taking control of hospitals/medical centers, medical practice, including hiring and medical insurance reimbursement money. This of course occurred during the Clinton administrations, when trial lawyers triumphed over business, usng the courts to take corporations, including "sole proprietorships" and "partnerships" traditional in medical practice.
"Alternative" health care programs as well as "look-alike" traditional schools now require serious scrutiny by student applicants. This also is true for patients (now often known as clients or customers) and other health care providers, who refer customers for additional or supplemental products and services.
These patterns merge into a "profitable egalitarianism" without a basis in a meritocracy of fact, reasoning, and verifiable achievement. (In the common parlance: if almost no one in practice is a real degree-holder, and if it is all about the money anyway, then it is.)
These patterns have sprung from the Maoist cultural revolution ideology common to socialist/communist ethnic and racial movements. This ideology has risen markedly within the US Democratic Party, as the US government has become more of an "advocacy" consortium of "public/private partnerships" instead of more traditional and impartial agencies.
Under Mao, the educated, whom Mao found to be too critical of his policies, were sent to work in the rice paddies and farms in the countryside. The educated would replace the uneducated peasants who would replace the educated in Mao's government. What peasant would criticize or complain after a very big promotion from rice paddy to government work?
Ethnic and racial Maoists trying to take-over US medicine believe they have been denied the "money" in the health care budget. What such organizers do not seem to understand is that the government asked taxpayers to subsidize direct medical care to the poor, provided by paying modest wages and salaries to educated, credentialed health care providers. Taxpayers have not agreed to pay out cash to people who seek it in a health care building or medical center, as patient or provider.
Most taxpayers would not agree to pay a 3-6-month training program "medical assistant" (weight and temperature office worker) the doctor's or even nurse's wage or salary. What starts as a move by ancillary workers or technicians or others to take salaries from the educated soon devalues the entire industry. No one wants to pay for the services or the insurance which helps subsidize the health care industry.
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Graphic: An Original Photographic of "Poseidon On the Atlantic" by mkrause, copyright 2004, 2011 at mkrause54@yahoo.com or mkrause381@gmail.com.
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