End Of The Golden Age Of Doctoring: A Marxist Analysis

The first thought that comes to mind when one hears “doctor” is that it’s a glorious profession that bring in a large income and is stable. While the pay maybe be “great” to some, to say that the profession is stable would be unseemly. According the John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau, they would say that the profession is somewhat self-destructing. In their piece, “The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring” the explanation for this self-destruction lack support of support for the profession by the government and many more. There has been a huge shift in the profession; The historical background of “doctor” began during the medieval times, when monks, would provide medical assistant to those who were in needs. Monks were to study in secrecy where
The Marxist perspective is that health care should eliminate inequalities and help those who aren’t able to get the care for themselves. This would be a great, but the cost in taxes would be high to cover everyone. The Pluralist perspective is the health care system could “balanced and protect the interests of all groups and individuals” (McKinlay and Marceau, 387). And lastly the New Right perceptive is that medical care should be only on the interest of the individual, this mean little involvement as possible. Connecting these viewpoints in today’s world, the New Right view would be the viewpoint of many Republicans. They believed that everyone should be responsible to get the health policy of their own and that the government should not get involved. While the pluralist viewpoint is the Democrats. Due to the different policies that are given in each Presidential election, it makes the job unstable because doctors are looking to find which insurance that would cover them and procedures they are able to
Many students would study to become a doctor and by having so many qualified doctors. By oversupplying the profession is field is becoming self-destructive. “If oversupply is a likely scenario, then the medical profession appears to be on a self-destructive course. In our view, there is clearly an overproduction of physician” (McKinlay and Marceau, 405). Medical school are supplying with some many graduates that it would be very difficult for some to get their practice in to become qualify physicians. “Practicing physicians are already feeling the squeeze and suggesting that the production of medical graduates should be carefully monitored. By the medical education establishment is required to increase the production of medical graduates to justify earlier massive investment in the institutional development” (McKinaly and Marceau, 405). By carefully monitoring the graduates and having a limit is can help meet with demand in near future. Unions like AMA once was a powerful, but as of today, not much are applying to become member and it does not have much hold on the profession as it