Becker's Healthcare August 30, 2024
From loss of autonomy to artificial intelligence, six physicians joined Becker’s to discuss the biggest threats to the physician workforce.
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.
Richard Goldstein, MD. Colon and Rectal Surgeon at Center for Colon and Rectal Health (Langhorne, Pa.): The biggest threat to physicians is the corporatization of healthcare. There is essentially no practical difference, from the physician’s perspective, between private equity groups or hospital chains, whether for-profit or non-profit. For a few physicians the pay is extraordinary, for most it is not. The pressure to continually see more patients, or perform more procedures, is never-ending.
This was a Faustian bargain. Physicians have lost their authority, their autonomy, and...
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