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A major premise of YourDoctorintheFamily.com
is
that the entire medical-industrial complex is bent to the task of
separating the interests of physicians from the interests of their patients.
The established powers must do this, as it's the only way they have to affect the
basic unit of health care spending - the physician-patient
encounter.
What this
means is that choosing your doctor has just become more important
and more difficult than it has ever been before. Not only must you
worry about your doctor's training and experience, and whether she
may be an axe-murderer, but now you must also try to assess just how fervently
she is going to accept her role as your advocate, when you're going
up against a hostile health care system for some needed medical
service.
As part of our mission to help you
understand and survive the American health care system, YourDoctorintheFamily.com
offers
you assistance in how to
choose your doctor to maximize your chances of getting an ally
for yourself (and not an ally of your HMO). We also offer
hints on how you can nurture
your relationship with your doctor, to cultivate his natural
inclinations to serve as your advocate.
Unfortunately,
as time goes by and as the screws are turned ever tighter on
beleaguered doctors, they are less and less willing to risk their
careers in suicide missions against the medical establishment, for
the benefit of a single patient. Many of the ones who are so willing
have already been weeded out (ask DrRich.)
We at YourDoctorintheFamily.com
believe
it inevitable that, if doctors are no longer able to act as
patients' advocate, then a new profession will soon assert itself to
provide that service to patients. We have the audacity to propose
such a new profession (the Personal
Health Care Advocate), and to start it on its way with a new set
of fundamental ethical principles.
Don't thank us. It's what we do.
We're your
on-line guide to understanding and
surviving the American health care system.
YourDoctorintheFamily.com
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