Things have really changed in medicine. Nurses and management trainee types with clipboards are running things and ordering doctors around. This turn of events, aptly depicted in the MDOD medical blog, is reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution . The Cultural Revolution made janitors surgery professors and forced surgery professors to work as janitors. Anyone with skills above those of the average person was persecuted.
This urge to disturb the peace, to smash established ways of doing things, is a universal leftist impulse. The Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong in the 1960s to shake things up and get rid of “black gang elements,” i.e. those nasty professionals, businessmen, and capitalists. This destructive upheaval caused the deaths of millions and did irreversible damage to the culture and economy of China.
At least if you work for AT&T or Hewlett Packard, most of the managers have a science or engineering degree or an MBA. Their skills, along with those of the rest of the employees, have produced new and innovative products and profits. This is capitalism, which has proved to be the best system for providing freedom and prosperity for most people.
A health care system in which nurses and barely literate business goons order doctors around is less like capitalism and more like something from Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The ultimate results probably aren’t going to be any better.
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