Advocating for meaningful real health reform
The article below sums up in large measure the plight of physicians, and indirectly all of us, with the current health care system. Real reform is needed sooner rather than later and real change, not just talk, needs to occur. A great physician shortage is looming which will only add to the problems discussed in this essay unless a variety of measures are used to alter events. Streamlining of regulations, paperwork, health information access and doctor patient interaction are all required. Yet, the focus for our elected leadership is preservation of the sacred cow, the health insurance industry at all costs . . . jomaxx
“I love being a doctor but I hate practicing medicine,” a friend, Saeed Siddiqui, told me recently. We were sitting in his office amid his many framed medical certificates and a poster of an illuminated lighthouse that read: “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.” . . . link to article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/views/17essa.html?ref=views&pagewanted=print
