Trust me, this is not by choice. “A true professional is one who willingly serves another without an inordinate concern for profits. Perhaps the greatest deterioration of the professional is in the ‘doctor’ medical industry. Spawned by insurance and pharmaceutical company profits, while looking out for the attorneys behind their backs, these doctors are using patients as a commodity for profits.
The medical corporation has no heart, no soul, and doesn’t understand love. It becomes a perfect breeding ground for social Darwinism that promotes survival of the fittest, which makes for a superman race. If left to exist as it is, the monster will be controlled by the government, and medicine will be socialized. Then the big sister of socialism-communism will be knocking loudly at our door.”
Similar Posts:
- Should doctors friend their patients on Facebook?
- Should doctors support Congress’ health reform efforts?
- Primary care doctors face burnout, and how that affects health reform
{ 4 comments }
This is a letter to the editor written by someone who thinks he and others should have care without the responsibility of payment. Or perhaps he thinks that fair pay for fair work should apply to some but not to others. Or maybe payment obligations should only be obligations when it is convenient to treat them that way. It is a naive and extraordinarily
self-indulgent perspective. If I want to be paid for the hard work I do, somehow I am inhuman if my work happens to be as a physician.
The writer is unfortunately not alone in his view of the world. He decries the expression of freedom inherent in another’s demand of pay for work. Strangely, he thinks this is somehow the road to serfdom. He decries communism, but his voice comes straight from that camp.
CH
I took it a slightly different way. I don’t think he’s actually blaming the individual physician completely for the deterioration of the professional. Certainly, he is throwing some blame, but he’s also noting that you are being used.
In short, medicine has become a business, and in all businesses, some of the soul of the professional is lost. I think anyone in any profession, at least as an independent practitioner, has that battle daily. And the last two sentences are right on point. I don’t know about that “superman race” thing, though.
CJD
All professionals should work for free, including NBA and NFL players, carpenters, plumbers, architechs, landscapers, interior designers, dentists, and on and on and on
The only ones who should get paid are the politicians and the drug dealers.
Comments on this entry are closed.