MedPage Today November 21, 2021
— Patients pay the price for our fragmented healthcare system
Americans have become the commodity in their own healthcare system. A patient has gone from being a person who has a relationship with a physician to a sheep that is herded through, with the corporate medical world making money off them with every move. Gone are the days when a physician would do rounds in the hospital in the morning, see patients in the office, follow them into the nursing home, and do home visits as they came to the end of their journey.
“Care” has now become a fragmented web of hospitalists, intensivists, and mid-level care that only remotely reflects the relationships that were the bedrock of the American...
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