(Snippets from the frontline)
The silent doctor
Doctors have been described as the best and brightest, and they should be as medical decisions impact the lives of many people. But business has taken over medicine with physicians losing their voice and becoming a commodity.
Over the past two decades, healthcare statistically worsened compared to other nations, while many Americans go into bankruptcy, lose their homes, face denial of tests and treatment, or have no insurance coverage.
Business decides whether you are admitted to a hospital, how long you stay, and when you are discharged. They decide what drugs you take, what studies you have, and whether you get chemotherapy or a mammogram.
Meanwhile, doctors sat silent except for a few whistleblowing physicians who are under constant attack by hospital and insurance company administrators. Many physicians live in fear they will lose their job and home, hospital or insurance contracts, or not be able to re-pay student loans.
Doctors have therefore relinquished most medical decision rights to business.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
Concierge practice is the antidote. Followed by membership in the American College of Private Practice http://www.acpp.md
Tom
Thomas W. LaGrelius MD, FAAFP
Diplomate of the American Board of
Family Practice and Geriatric Medicine
Skypark Preferred Family Care
A Concierge Medical Practice
23451 Madison St., Suite 140
Torrance, CA 90505
http://www.skyparkpfc.com
310-378-6208 office
President and Chair, ACPP
http://www.acpp.md
Let’s circulate your web site to 120,000 medical students.
Let’s find a way to protect doctors who protect patients from administrative abuse. Is it AAPS, UAPD, or some other medical group?
If you were finishing medical school, internship, residency etc. and choosing a practice, what would you read to decide how to decide? H
Thank you for writing this: It is the diagnosis.
What are options for treatment:
AAPS? UAPD? Tax-credits for charity-care as in Virginia? Other?
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