I am a family doctor, working now for about a decade.
I went into medicine for mostly the right reasons...I wanted life to be more meaningful, directed towards helping others. And sure, I wanted to make a decent living, as well.
I was full of energy, naive enthusiasm, and hopefulness about the possibilities, and despite all I've witnessed, I still am.
But that hope is tempered, for better and for worse, with the first-hand knowledge and daily experience of a broken-down health care system.
We have so many miracles available today, in the form of new/better/refined knowledge, many wonderful treatments of all sorts, and so many people that care and want to help.
But our health care system, more pointedly, the system that finances health care, does not function, and is keeping millions of people from getting care.
I see the results of this broken system every day, in the form of more and more suffering and desperate people. The huge majority of the problems that these people have are preventable and treatable, but the system rarely rewards prevention, and now actively denies treatment.
This is a deplorable, and because the system keeps people from accessing readily available care, an immoral, situation.
I am writing this blog as a way to educate people to the realities of our situation, and to explore, develop, and educate people about the readily available solutions that could exist.
There will be stories based on what I see every day. They will be based in fact, but I will need to omit and change information to protect confidentiality.
The only limits to the care that we are capable of giving to all people today are in our imagination.
We must, and we can, create a health care system that functions for all people. A functioning health care system is one of the cornerstones of a healthy society.
BE HEALTHY
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