I’ve noticed doctors seem to have a new disdain of their patients as well.
Medical Care has quickly become an adversarial system, much like the Legal System.
The future looks bleak.
Just taking what the CDC, your local Big Medicine Bureaucracy and your face to face MD say should happen should be deeply questioned.
You are on your own to decide which ways to go.
I neglected to include your Medical Insurance Company on the list of adversaries.
We do. We are tired of doctor google. Being demanded to do things that make no sense because some Internet quack said something. We are tired of getting stiffed on Laurent’s because doctors “don’t need my money. They are already rich”. We are tired of senseless government regulations and being forced to spend 8 minutes charting for every one minute patient care. We are tired of quality measures that do not promote quality but rather reduce pay. We are tired of non-clinical administrators.
In my generation of physicians we are tired of going pups coming out of residency decoding not to work except to whine about seeing 12 patients We are tired about patients not following our treatment plans and then blaming us for self inflicted complications. All the while work attorneys from Dewey Screwem and Howe suing on contingency basis (we don’t get paid unless you do) while our defenses cost $400/hour and the vast majority of times when we win we are will out the funds with no recourse.
We cannot refuse care to people without being sanctioned. Any patient can come to the ER abuse us and we still can’t say hir the bricks.
We are quite happy if people don’t want our health care. There are plenty of other choices. We are ok with that.
First visit to doc in the new year, they were handing notices out to Medicare patients that the group is participating in an ‘Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - ‘group of doctors, hospitals and/or other health care providers that work together to improve the quality and experience of care you receive. ACO’s receive a portion of any savings that result from reducing costs and meeting quality requirements.’
Gee, wonder how much my docs’ ‘take’ will be.
When money supersedes patients as the priority, this is the outcome.
I have experienced that as well.