Opinion from one MD...BD
During the last several weeks, I have asked you to consider some of the factors which I feel have been responsible for the large percentage of our Gross National Product which is needed for health care. I have also tried to explain why I got feelings of paranoia when so many people intimated that we physicians were primarily responsible for this escalation of medical costs. This week I want to go one step farther and let you know how big business involvement in health care has resulted in many patients getting inadequate care.
If the physician does just a little less for each patient (s)he sees, the more free time (s)he will have. Not only that, in many cases the size of an annual bonus (or the amount actually deducted from his/her salary) reflects the total overall cost to the company for those patients assigned to that physician. Therefore it is to the physician’s benefit to limit the number of referrals to specialists or to obtain additional testing.
I felt paranoid practicing medicine - The Bluffton News-Banner
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