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In the industry we call it “Credential Washing”.
Make no mistake, people will and probably have died because of it.
It’s a shame because I have worked with some amazing Foreign doctors who went through the process correctly.
This cheapens their struggle.
By the way, is anybody ever going to talk about how we ended up here?
Maybe when the American medical Association decided to cut class sizes in half for graduating physicians?
Maybe when the AMA decided that they weren’t going to build another school, even though the baby boomer generation was starting to push up and is going to need more care?
I mean, just generally speaking did you know that when a patient becomes 55 they go from an average of one visit a year to three visits a year?
And when they turn 68 they go from an average of three visits a year to five visits a year?
So if you had a wave of aging patients, wouldn’t you want to be prepared for those?
Oh yeah, and we’re generally living longer than when they made these decisions back in the 80s so the population of care is actually increasing almost exponentially.
Hey, but what do I know?
The other sad part about this entire thing is that if I put a gif of a hot nurse, I’m far more likely to have both men and women actually try and read this thing that could help them.
By the way, according to Stanley McChrystal uses this to highlight the scale of the problem in complex systems like healthcare, comparing it to more visible causes of death at the time (based on late-1990s data):
• More people died annually from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents (43,458 deaths).
• More than from breast cancer (42,297 deaths).
• More than from AIDS (16,516 deaths).
That was before the credential washing crisis.
Those of us that have been in HEALTHCARE for a day or two we’re all nodding our heads and going yeah.
I’d be fascinated to know where I got this wrong by the way. I’m always excited to learn to grow an adaptive.
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