Microsoft’s Bill Gates recently prescribes more technology as a cure to our ailing health system. Others have parroted his sentiments.
It all goes to show how little they know about what really goes behind the scenes in medicine. When non-physicians try to fix health care, their efforts are doomed from the start.
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Kevin illustrates why physicians are where they are today. They complain and complain that their system sucks, but then whenever anyone offers alternatives or makes suggestions, they’re wrong simply because they’re not physicians.
However, physicians’ sum contribution to the whole debate consists of “pay us more money”.
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