Y’all are missing the boat. The most evil thing in medicine is the emergence of the non-clinical administrators. And even those who were clinical leave bedside and become non-clinical. They have all forgotten that at bedside we are dealing with someone’s father, mother, sister, brother, son or daughter. The conversations are often gut wrenching. Delivering this news is horrifying. I can’t imagine what it would be like to babe to have to hear it as a parent.
When I was administrating I mandated that every clinical leader had to practice and go to bedside. But my brethren physicians abdicated their roles in favor of money. We allowed this to happen. I am ashamed of my profession daily but choose to fight the fight from the inside. I can’t blame those who just leave the field and do something else. But that creates the void for the sycophant physicians who value greed more than their sacred oath.
All the more reason to keep healthcare decisions at the individual level as much as possible and not let the feds interfere at all with healthcare.