I have been telling my SR and Explore readers for several decades now that we don’t have a healthcare system in the United States, we have an illness profit system and, as this article describes, the system is getting worse and failing to produce appropriate and adequate healthcare for millions of Americans. The result is that physicians and nurses feeling increasingly “morally wronged” as the article describes. Meanwhile instead of doing anything to rectify this growing failure the Democrats, except for a few members like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are weak and compromised, and the Republicans want more of the same and spend their time arguing about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Like so many things in America today the result ranks third rate compared to the rest of the developed world. WE are not the world’s leader and, increasingly the world no longer sees us that way.
After nearly two decades working in emergency rooms around the country, Corl’s idealism gave way to disillusionment as he struggled to provide patients with the type of care he’d been trained to deliver. Credit: Balazs Gardi / The New York Times
Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered. The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical research center in Maryland. Dean started asking the physicians she knew how they felt about their jobs, and many of them confided that they were struggling. Some complained that they didn’t have enough time to talk to their patients because they were too busy filling out electronic medical records. Others bemoaned having to fight with insurers about whether a person with a serious illness would be preapproved for medication. The doctors Dean surveyed were deeply committed to the medical profession. […]
I’m always a bit frustrated in your occasional “READ THE FULL ARTICLE links which lead to a page of a newspaper or other publication which cannot be read without a paid subscription.
dr.Pratiha,PhD
on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 11:49 am
What a tragedy regarding our American doctors and the medical system !
At least, I beg they can give a try with the deep meditation and some knowledge related to what we humans are, related to this planet.
I’m always a bit frustrated in your occasional “READ THE FULL ARTICLE links which lead to a page of a newspaper or other publication which cannot be read without a paid subscription.
What a tragedy regarding our American doctors and the medical system !
At least, I beg they can give a try with the deep meditation and some knowledge related to what we humans are, related to this planet.