This sounds just about right. The reader has fee-for-service reimbursement and malpractice to thank:

The operating doctor could not visit me in the hospital or in rehab, which was a lice-infested nursing home. He did nothing.

My internist forgot to make arrangements for my stress test. He also did not visit me in the hospital. Both these doctors sent their associates to see me, and the associates don’t even know me.

I’m grateful I was born in 1929. Doctors were doctors then. Why do all the young people want to be doctors? They can become electricians, handymen, etc., and not worry about being sued. More doctors now post signs that tell you they don’t carry malpractice any longer. What does one devise from all this? You can never speak to a doctor on the phone because he isn’t available.

Like I’ve said many times before, don’t hate the players, hate the game.