You lazy commie millennials wouldn’t understand the work ethic of a hot, red-blooded boomer trying to avoid spending any time with his abused and emotionally destroyed Karen of a wife whose only joy is now tormenting minimum wage workers and his kids who don’t talk to him anymore because he’s a brave patriot who speaks his mind and doesn’t give into the woke left.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago

Not too far off..... I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation and my specialty is kinda famous for being really bad at having families.

But I'd say the underlying cause is more like undiagnosed personality disorder/autism than being patriotic. Most of the older guys are extremely divorced dads who are obsessed with squash if they are brown or golf if they're white. We also have divorced dad "pretends to be cowboy or in motorcycle gang" if they're a younger boomer.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 16 points 3 weeks ago

Part of it is that I work at a teaching hospital, so a lot of them are mainly here just to pass down knowledge to residents. The other part is that I live in one of the most conservative (poor) states in America and young doctors don't want to move here, especially if they've specialized.

There's definitely a lot less of them than there were 5 years ago. First wave got taken out(figuratively) when CMS went from Icd-9 codes to icd-10 codes, and everyone had to re-memorize every diagnosis code they use again.

The second wave got taken out(literally) by COVID, we were one of the states where people sued because the hospital made clinicians get vaccinated. So I got to see a bunch of sweet older providers die/be put on oxygen.

And lastly the change over to Epic was just a cherry on top to get the vast majority of the older providers to quit. Now we have huge wait times for most specialty medicine clinics.