Deane Waldman, M.D. – People no longer trust their doctors. In addition to survey evidence, there is increasing violence against healthcare workers, worsening burnout of doctors and nurses, and accelerating erosion of the caregiving workforce.
Restoring trust starts with determining why it was lost. There are at least seven reasons: lack of choice (loss of freedom), affordability, depersonalization, accessibility, outcomes, CoViD, and system frustration. Only by fixing the root causes might people’s faith in their physicians be restored. Continue reading
Keith Jackson, MD – We all know in our hearts that a well functioning society should reward intelligence and hard work. This runs counter to the thinking of those who consider this concept aggressively hurtful to the stupid and lazy, but it is something we know should be true. Merit should matter. Similarly, we know that well functioning medical care should reward good care of the sick and the intelligent pursuit of seeking even better outcomes. Many things are working against merit-based reward in health care, however.