Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A Doctor's Declaration of Independence

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 28, 2014 | Daniel F. Craviotto Jr.
It's time to defy health-care mandates issued by bureaucrats not in the healing profession.  In my 23 years as a practicing physician, I've learned that the only thing that matters is the doctor-patient relationship. How we interact and treat our patients is the practice of medicine. I acknowledge that there is a problem with the rising cost of health care, but there is also a problem when the individual physician in the trenches does not have a voice in the debate and is being told what to do and how to do it. As a group, the nearly 880,000 licensed physicians in the U.S. are, for the most part, well-intentioned. We strive to do our best even while we sometimes contend with unrealistic expectations. The demands are great, and many of our families pay a huge price for our not being around. We do the things we do because it is right and our patients expect us to.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

T-Shirt