The doctors are shrugging
Atlas Shrugged is now non-fiction. I work for an Optometrist. Our office received this letter from and Ophthalmologist that we referred patients to. Only the pertinent part of the letter is posted here.
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
It has been a privilege working with all of you through the XXX for the last 13 years. I have made a major career decision, and I have decided to stop practicing medicine in the current U.S. healthcare system. Many of you have heard this from me directly, whereas others are getting the news for the first time. For me, the business of medicine has created too big of a wedge between the doctor-patient relationship to maintain happiness and job satisfaction.
June 30, 2016, will be my last day at the XXX...........
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
It has been a privilege working with all of you through the XXX for the last 13 years. I have made a major career decision, and I have decided to stop practicing medicine in the current U.S. healthcare system. Many of you have heard this from me directly, whereas others are getting the news for the first time. For me, the business of medicine has created too big of a wedge between the doctor-patient relationship to maintain happiness and job satisfaction.
June 30, 2016, will be my last day at the XXX...........
to go just about anywhere ... fun when it snows!! -- j
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little gulch in tennessee! -- j
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The AS predictions have been coming true for a while.
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." Milton Friedman
Regards,
O.A.
and they think it's wonderful. . how insane! -- j
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Soon, Herb!!! -- j
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created "too big of a wedge" between the doctor and
the patient. . it is the government. -- j
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I suppose I shrugged in a small quiet way too.
I say all this because this is the kind of practice she has provided for YEARS, but without adequate compensation under the "health cost containment and crisis management" program that US healthcare has evolved into.
Now she can practice medicine in the way she feels it SHOULD be done ... with the patient's best care in mind with patients who recognize the value of getting their best health care and in true Gulch fashion, they are willing to PAY for the service they get. No demands for their "right to health care", or expectation for discounts to get her years of experience and research effort.
So yeah, I guess she "shrugged" as far as the 2,400 patients are concerned ... but she is salvation and hope for the 600 who respect knowledge and value.
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