KevinMD May 13, 2022
This spring, in my culminating semester of PA school, I took a course entitled “Health Care Delivery Systems.” After 30-something months, the end was in sight, and I was not particularly excited for another serious class while I was wrapping up rotations, studying for my boards, and writing my master’s paper.
However, as soon as I started working on the class assignments, I realized this class might deserve a higher rank on my priorities. Like most students, I had been focused on what I considered actual medicine (i.e., diagnosis and treatment), but this course opened my eyes to another side of health care. I ended up learning a lot about medicine in the United States and our health care financing...