Medscape November 25, 2020
Physician leaders have launched a grassroots nonprofit called Osler’s Alliance, created to reverse the erosion of the physician–patient relationship. On Monday, they held a virtual town hall to issue a call to action.
In August, Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and editor-in-chief of Medscape, wrote a piece published in The New Yorker, “Why Doctors Should Organize.”
In it, he explained the need to unify the nation’s nearly 900,000 practicing doctors to bring back the doctor–patient relationship that existed before the business part of medicine took over its soul.
“Such an organization wouldn’t be a trade guild protecting the interests of doctors,” Topol wrote. “It would be a doctors’ organization devoted to patients.”
“Once...
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