Unhappy time for medicine
“This is not a happy time for medicine. There is an increasing discordance between rising costs and the satisfaction that most patients have with the care they receive. We pay more and get less.
It’s not quite true to say that all are dissatisfied. Some are quite happy with the system: CEOs of health maintenance organizations, executives of pharmaceutical companies, personal injury trial attorneys, investors comfortable with profiting from the misfortune of others, and legions of bureaucrats and regulators whose jobs are to maintain the status quo. None of these folks actually provides any care.”
