It is true that if a person is working under fear, it will be more expensive. You build defenses before you can even focus on what you should be doing in the first place. In the case of doctors, they order a lot of unnecessary diagnostics to cover themselves from malsuits in the future. They are saddled with the fear that the patient or his relatives will find a reason to sue him when what he was doing was to save the patient.
I don't know with everybody else. But I work on the ethics of helping the patient and never think of what I am doing is routine and mundane. Every patient is unique and needs my 100% attention and focus. There is not even an iota of negligence. Nothing drives me to forget what Hippocrates said: FOREMOST DO NO HARM." If I don't have the time for one more patient, I refer him to another doctor to take care of him fully rather than do a haphazard diagnosis and treatment. That is why I remain poor.
Until the United State remove this Democles sword on the shoulders of their doctors, their healthcare will always be expensive.
I don't know with everybody else. But I work on the ethics of helping the patient and never think of what I am doing is routine and mundane. Every patient is unique and needs my 100% attention and focus. There is not even an iota of negligence. Nothing drives me to forget what Hippocrates said: FOREMOST DO NO HARM." If I don't have the time for one more patient, I refer him to another doctor to take care of him fully rather than do a haphazard diagnosis and treatment. That is why I remain poor.
Until the United State remove this Democles sword on the shoulders of their doctors, their healthcare will always be expensive.
Totally Agree with your comments about YOURSELF. You are what you wrote. Also having been inside the U.S. Health care system. You are totally correct. The reason the U.S. Health Care is so expensive, and provides such poor quality health care is because of the amount of litigation which takes place. The U.S. physician adds extra testing cost only as protection against malpractice.
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