Malcom Gladwell stuff making the rounds

[i_wanna_be_Brown]

<p>This forbes interview with Malcom Gladwell has been making the round on my facebook feed: <a href=“Malcolm Gladwell: Tell People What It's Really Like To Be A Doctor”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2014/03/13/malcolm-gladwell-tell-people-what-its-really-like-to-be-a-doctor/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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“I don’t understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we’ve made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that’s a shame. My principal concern is the amount of time and attention spent worrying about the business side. You don’t train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.”

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[MiamiDAP]

<p>We cannot do anything about it,…except to vote,…but many will not see it this way, so might as well forget it, no point in bringing it up. Everybody has been to a doc…and there are some who still talk to you. I choose my doc. based on the fact who is her first priority - her computer or I. If it is her computer or she /he does not listen to me, forget it, I am taking my business and thousands of $$$ somewhere else (somewhere else still exists believe it or not). I have been telling here and to my own D. (who will never neglect it, it is her priority), TALK AND LISTEN TO YOUR PATIENTS.</p>