I am glad this gentleman is so charitable, but I wonder where he and the children's hospital makes up their expenses from these "free" medical prodcedures? Ditto for the non-medicaid approved drugs he dispenses for "free."
I hope that those folks who work in healthcare and know what’s going on first hand are going to the town meetings and sending out emails and letters. Not that the powers that be want to be bothered by the truth.
Thanks for posting this!
This is a very good article. I emailed a copy of it to a number of people today. We should all consider doing the same. Two other articles you might want to include in your email are:
(1) “Here’s a Second Opinion” by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. (a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical
School):
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html
(for the more skeptical, a footnoted version of Dr. Atlas’s article can be found at http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649)
(2) “Rationing Health Care,” another article by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/21/rationing-health-care-opinions-contributors-scott-atlas.html
Good article.
Haven’t read the links at 7, yet, but pinging as an FYI...
This article, written by a doctor, is the single best argument AGAINST the governmental take over of our health care.
The bureaucrats will, with a patient smile, allow those children to go blind, explaining “it’s regulation”.
Hospitals have a phrase we all know, “STAT”, meaning “at once, if not sooner”. That word will be changed to WAIT. I, too, know of certain doctors who are one bureaucrat away from closing their practice.
What this doctor is saying is that YOU will have a doctor to treat you ONLY if there is someone still WILLING to be a doctor.
Yes — it’s calm and reasonable. Best of all it deals with reality on the ground, not promises that have no bearing on reality.
It’s true re females in med school and later, too, from my own experience. Both my sons’ classes were 51% female; and my daughter-in-law practices but two days a week because she has two little children. Actual data also supports the shorter careers and shorter working-hours of female doctors. This does not bode well for getting appointments unless the fed begins mandating working hours for physicians. And who would be surprised by that?
Bump.
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