Anupama Verma is a nephrologist and can be reached on Twitter @anuvmd.
A recent article was published in the Atlantic about Americans being the worst patients.
Americans are part of a broken and dysfunctional health care system with exorbitant costs, a maelstrom of bureaucratic red tape, and insurance coverage that barely covers what most people need.
But are they contributing to this system by being such bad patients?
The article in the Atlantic seems to imply that this is the case. The ...
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Late one Friday night while walking the long and lonely hallways of my hospital, my mind wandered back several years. I recalled my first weekend call as an eager, newly minted nephrology attending. I had met one of my colleagues earlier that morning in the doctors’ lounge, whereupon I had been handed a clunky, black weekend pager. “Welcome to being on call every fourth weekend for the rest of your ...
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