Comments on: Conflicts of Interest Among Physicians II http://brainblogger.com/2008/08/12/conflicts-of-interest-among-physicians-ii/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Evan http://brainblogger.com/2008/08/12/conflicts-of-interest-among-physicians-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-283871 Evan Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:40:17 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1010#comment-283871 A related question: how is compliance with the oath ensured. By doctors, no? Hmm. A related question: how is compliance with the oath ensured. By doctors, no? Hmm.

]]> By: MSB http://brainblogger.com/2008/08/12/conflicts-of-interest-among-physicians-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-283820 MSB Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:12:44 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1010#comment-283820 In Canada, where all docs are salaried, efforts to add a private tier to the national health care system have been defeated in Parliament. Just as insurance companies have no place in a health care system for the US, docs should not be in charge of the financial management of the health care system. Health care needs to be a service provided by government to all citizens, not a businees in which the entrepreneurial do best. Medicine is a profession whose values have been threatened by business. Doctors should earn good salaries for working a set number of hours, with compensation from the gov't for student loans, etc. As the wife of a physician and a health care professional, I think doctors are being shafted, but I have no sympathy for those who feel they're entitled to exorbitant incomes driven by procedures and who increasingly refuse to accept insurance and public medical programs.. In Canada, where all docs are salaried, efforts to add a private tier
to the national health care system have been defeated in Parliament.
Just as insurance companies have no place in a health care system
for the US, docs should not be in charge of the financial management of the health
care system. Health care needs to be a service provided by government
to all citizens, not a businees in which the entrepreneurial do best.

Medicine is a profession whose values have been threatened by business.
Doctors should earn good salaries for working a set number of hours, with
compensation from the gov’t for student loans, etc.

As the wife of a physician and a health care professional, I think doctors
are being shafted, but I have no sympathy for those who feel they’re entitled
to exorbitant incomes driven by procedures and who increasingly refuse
to accept insurance and public medical programs..

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