Academic medicine raising health care costs?

Most patients are not stupid. They will go where they think they get the best care. They are probably not qualified to make that deicsion, but that is what they will do.

Ivory tower academics will not do well with things like scheduling, fitting urgent patients in, waiting room times and seeing their own patients while they are in the hospital.

If any doc can keep their patients happy and healthy, they will do well – in academia or in the community, If not, patients will try not to go to see them.