{"id":730878,"date":"2026-04-16T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/730878\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:12:12","slug":"the-medical-industry-is-dying-and-if-it-continues-so-will-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/730878\/","title":{"rendered":"The medical industry is dying — and if it continues, so will WE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our health system needs\u00a0first aid<\/strong><\/p>\n

The medical profession is in need of a shot.<\/p>\n

If today Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and had a great fall \u2014 better he should get a Band-Aid.<\/p>\n

Need a pill or over the hill \u2014 care of you or for you is kaput. Gone. Done. Finished.<\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s around to put anyone together again.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not ailing, the profession is flailing.<\/p>\n

You need a bed, a doc, a nurse, a medication \u2014 forget it. Soon Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again.<\/p>\n

And neither can you.<\/p>\n

The doctors\u2019 opinions are in<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been interviewing doctors. Many with honors, plaques even. Here\u2019s what they said:<\/p>\n

People are terrified AI can read an X-ray as well as a radiologist.<\/p>\n

Pathologists have begun to use machines.<\/p>\n

Border control is freaking out farmers who can no longer pick their necessary crops.<\/p>\n

More and more scientific tests get conducted in the field, so who pays for all that?<\/p>\n

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You get older, you need help, you get pushed back.<\/p>\n

To gain status in lesser countries, young Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis pick careers in medicine.<\/p>\n

Drones are killing people.<\/p>\n

The population\u2019s aging.<\/p>\n

The cost of prescriptions are rising.<\/p>\n

They step you down to see the nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n

Visits with a real MD are hard to arrange unless some specialized procedure\u2019s required.<\/p>\n

Medical care will soon be rationed.<\/p>\n

Difficult to arrange certain needed medical tests.<\/p>\n

Resources for the aged will be limited.<\/p>\n

Procedures become run by insurance companies.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll talk to a real doctor \u2014 only by phone.<\/p>\n

Fitting in a checkup<\/strong><\/p>\n

Should your physical problem be excess weight, forget hunting a dietitian. Or a medical specialist. Just remember the immortal words of Chubby Checker, whose insurance carrier offered him group insurance. He said: \u201cPlease, my second cousin knew how to get rid of 235 pounds of ugly fat. He divorced her.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the diet pill stuff. For when your bathrobe\u2019s formfitting. For when your bra is a hammock. When Mayor Crapdammy donates your pants for the homeless. When you wear the same size dress as the Statue of Liberty, and maybe still can\u2019t fit and she\u2019s 2 inches taller than you \u2014 and she\u2019s lying down.<\/p>\n

YOU just need exercise. Like this sheik who \u2014 when in the mood \u2014 hired a track star to run for one of his wives. The sheik lived to be 97. The runner died at 64. Moral of the story? If sex doesn\u2019t kill you, it\u2019s the running after that does.<\/p>\n

And not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our health system needs\u00a0first aid The medical profession is in need of a shot. If today Humpty Dumpty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":730879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[14206,210,1141,1142,23378,1269,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-730878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-doctors","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-medical-care","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}