You are practically suggesting that people need to bribe their doctors (through direct gifts or using their status+ability to garnish more customers) just to get decent health attention. You paint a picture of a person who is pretty much apathetic about his patients (“He really is not going to go above and beyond his call of duty unless he is either emotionally, intellectually, or financially compelled to do so”).

Did you ever stop to think that maybe everyone that needs medical attention doesn’t have the time or money to come up with special gifts or elaborate plans to impress their doctor just to get service? Do you see anything wrong with this picture? Hippocratic oath, etc.?

I know that doctors are humans too, and are influenced by greed and all those good things. But how the hell have you gotten into the mindset that you need to be compensated by your patients beyond just doing your job and getting paid for it?

How about we do the opposite. How about we take all the crooked doctors who take bribes from their patients and “curry favor” to those extra special super duper uber-patients of theirs and just… I don’t know… take away their medical licenses?? Wouldn’t that be a good incentive?

Please reply with your name, address, and license number when you let me know what you think