Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.