If you aren’t sure why doctors are leaving Idaho, it’s because you’re not listening to them
If you aren’t sure why doctors are leaving Idaho, it’s because you’re not listening to them
If you aren’t sure why doctors are leaving Idaho, it’s because you’re not listening to them
If you aren’t sure why doctors are leaving Idaho, it’s because you’re not listening to them
27 comments
but i dont know any idahoan doctors
I get the feeling most people here know why
After citing statistics about obgyns and fetal care physicians, the author writes this.
>my physician husband and I decided to leave Idaho.
There are many 2 doctor couples. So this exodus will affect other specialities as well, not just women-centric fields. Maybe when men cant find a physician, they will start to care.
We travel from Idaho to California multiple times each year for medical care. It’s a 12 hour drive but there aren’t many other options.
But I don’t even live in Idaho
Why do conservatives need doctors? Can’t they just pray to their deity for good health? Look, in Idaho it’s legal to let children die because a parent chose faith over medicine. The adults should follow the same strategy.
>Seventy-three of 75 respondents cited Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws as the reason.
Amazingly, problems only get solved by applying logic to facts. I realize that a lot of people want their religious fantasies to be true. But that won’t make them true. And solutions based on fantasy don’t work. Who knew?
The only reason I’m still in Idaho is because I WFH for a place out of state. It’s cheaper living here then living there. I’m not out interacting with all the crazy bastards that live here. I can’t imagine living here and working a public facing job.
Is there anyone who doesn’t know why?
“Where did all the doctors go?” 🤷♂️
Never expected far right talking points to boil down to hating doctors and librarians almost as much as women, trans people and ethnic minorities.
The state government will solve this problem by making it illegal for doctors to leave the state.
They can’t pay back their student loans while being in prison. It’s that simple.
Good. The people of IDAHO made their bed, now they can die from the bed sores.
Not an ounce of sympathy for the people of Idaho. Voters have to understand there are consequences and repercussions voting in MAGA whack jobs.
I keep getting messages from MyChart that OB/Gynos are leaving St Luke’s where I live in ID. They even said the office won’t be taking new appointments till the fall due to lack of staff.
I’m not having anymore kids, so I’ll be just seeing my GP for my annual I suppose. She’s been trying to get pregnant for a hot minute and is going to try IVF. I have a feeling she and her husband will be leaving the state pretty soon.
The people who run this state are fucking ghouls.
The people of Idaho don’t need real doctors anyway. Not when they’ve got prayers.
Because it’s Idaho? Possibly the most ruby red rugged conservatives state in the Union? Gonna be fun when they can’t even find a doctor for a physical. I’m sure they’ll “power through it” with their love of GAWD
We tell children (people) to become experts in their field of work and study. We push people to take years of learning and training to become experts, the go-to for a field or science. Then we let people who are not experts use their ‘feelings’ to overturn and overrule the expertise of those who are the best of the best in their fields. I don’t get how we have gotten here, but I can’t believe we look at people who spend decades on a subject learning to be the best at it and will say “I know better”. No Joe Schmoe the plumber, you do not know more about healthcare or psychology than the guy who spent 20 years in the field.
We all lived through covid (it’s only been 4 years).
We all saw republicans literally die to own the libs.
We all saw them do the opposite of medical science and claim fauci as some demon.
Sorry conservatives, but your actions have consequences. No amount of talking will lead them away from the MAGA conspiratorial path.
Let them experience the consequences of their own actions, save the ones that want saving.
Had an acquaintance (a friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing) whose wife is in OB/Gyn. (Not sure of her specialty.) He was at a party squawking about how when they drive all the “baby killers” out of Texas, his wife will have her pick of places. Couldn’t help myself, I asked how that would affect how many hours she works, and I mean, fewer doctors means less overall support, right? He wasn’t concerned. HE had already planned that SHE would need to put in at least 80+ hours the first few years in a group practice. He then went on to talk about how he was going to see about becoming a realtor. He was trying to push them to a better house, and it “didn’t seem that hard to do.”
Lovely.
Anyone who didn’t vote or voted for republicans deserve what they get. I only have pity for the people in Idaho or the other states that are forcing doctors out that did not vote for republicans. The majority of voters of those states voted for the politicians who created these laws and the governors that signed them and in some cases the judges that upheld the laws. Its not like this is a new party platform, or that those politicians haven’t been saying what they intend to do when they get elected. If those that voted republican don’t like whats happening, then vote in someone who wont destroy medical care in their state.
My friend is an ER doc and he told me just this week about a patient that had an extopic pregnancy and had to be emergency medivacd to his ER in Utah because she couldn’t get treatment in Idaho. Luckily she lived, but it was touch and go. Republicans don’t give a fuck about women or children. Shit is disgusting.
I feel bad for those that truly don’t have the ability to pick up and move away from red states but if anything I’m surprised there hasn’t been a bigger exodus of those that can. If you’re a doctor you can work literally anywhere and make a really good living. Why live in a 3rd world state?
I’m lucky enough to be able to live and work where I choose and you couldn’t pay me enough to live in a red state. Maybe if I was single and the money was outlandish but as a married man with a daughter, all the money in the world wouldn’t be enough to put my wife and daughter through those conditions.
An easy way to tell if you’re deep in Cousinfuckistan, is if you overhear a conversation where people say “CRICK” instead of “creek”. Don’t overthink it, and definitely don’t have unprotected sexual intercourse in these areas.
Big government is great when it acts as an arm of religious extremism – conservatives
Physicians are not stupid. Just look at TX and what happened there. A woman that was clearly a candidate for an abortion couldn’t get one in TX because the corrupt AG Paxton put doctors and hospitals on notice.
The Handmaids tail was a futuristic documentary.