MedPage Today December 18, 2024
— Establishing trust makes our work more meaningful and effective
As a critical care physician in the blue-voter state of California, I was initially stunned by the election results. But as I reflected upon the criticism heaped on the Democrats for the loss, I realized that politicians may be like physicians in a key respect: many don’t listen to the people they serve.
After years of working in hospitals from California to Texas to Massachusetts to North Dakota, I am disheartened by the number of times I see golden opportunities to listen to patients squandered. Daily.
Americans stopped many Democratic politicians from taking office in part because they lacked situational awareness. Election post-mortems suggest that politicians didn’t listen to voters’...
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