Do today’s doctors feel they owe anything back to society?

Apparently not, as physicians see themselves as being taken advantage of:

“It used to be that doctors felt they were fairly well rewarded for their work and they owed something back to society in free care,” Stoner said. He cites the decreasing payments that doctors get from Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies. “Increasingly, doctors are feeling that society is making so many demands on them . . . they are disinclined to feel they have to pay society back with free care.”

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