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Personal Health Care Advocates - PHCAs Where will PHCAs come from? |
PHCAs are physicians who step away from one
role – that of medical practitioner – in order to reclaim another,
equally vital role that has been gradually taken away from them – that
of patient’s advocate.
There is a rapidly growing legion of
dedicated physicians who are becoming so frustrated with their profession
that they are ready to make a drastic change. While many of these
frustrated doctors will become farmers, race car drivers, or day traders,
many others will seek to channel their frustration - and their
professional expertise - toward activities that are inherently fulfilling,
and that have the potential to undo some of the wrongs occurring in health
care today. Some of these will be pulled toward a new career as a
PHCA.
Such PHCAs will have a deep sense of mission,
and a
highly-developed sense of empathy for both the client and their physicians. They
will work hard for their clients, and at the same tome assiduously
avoid creating unnecessary conflict between the client (the health care
consumer) and their physicians, most of whom are attempting to deliver
high-quality care under severe duress.
The primary motivation for becoming a PHCA ought to be the desire to do good, to tap once again into that primal motivating force (perhaps long-forgotten) that led them to a career in medicine in the first place – the desire to help people achieve and maintain their health. That desire, and the freedom to do so unencumbered, will likely be extremely attractive to many long-time practitioners.