He takes exception to the hysteria about two-tier dermatology. A nice retort to the piece:
Until society sees fit to legislate otherwise (which, DrRich supposes, could happen as early as the next president’s administration), doctors will continue to spend some of their time engaging in hobbies and business or family activities outside of the formal healthcare system. Some may even leave the formal healthcare system altogether in favor of these other activities. DrRich himself has done this. And until society renders it officially illegal for doctors to do so, DrRich respectfully asks that doctors be left alone to celebrate their individual autonomy as granted to them under America’s founding documents, whether it’s by establishing authentic Indian restaurants, setting up Botox clinics, or even becoming retainer practitioners.
Well said.
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Well said, indeed.
DrRich absolutely drives a stake into the heart of the typical insincere and dishonest NY Times hystrionics.
The aforementioned publication seems on a death spiral to zero readership and bankruptcy with its endless politically correct hissy fits masquarading as “news.”
The implication that this means docs are bad is more of the collectivist anti-individual freedom garbage that has infected the NYT since they were heaping praise on Stalin while he was murdering millions in forced farm collectivisation.
On the other hand, the fact that third party payers have made the routine practice of medicine a marginally profitable enterprise that sharply devalues medical services below their natural free market value with consequences for patients is something that people need to know about, and I am glad that they reported it, even if they didn’t properly characterize the nature of the problem.
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