Comments on: Healthcare cost and The Provider Curse https://radajones.com/healthcare-cost-and-the-provider-curse/ Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:44:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Wendell H. Perry, DO https://radajones.com/healthcare-cost-and-the-provider-curse/#comment-423 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:44:53 +0000 https://radajones.com/radajones/2019/09/27/healthcare-cost-and-the-provider-curse/#comment-423 I come a little late to the party. I thought that I was the only one who thought about this stuff. Of course I found out that that isn’t true because I talk to colleagues and occasionally pull my head out of the sand. I just read an interesting book called Assume the Physician by John Hunt, MD. It has echoes of The House of God, complete with the empty suit administrators and their circular, self-serving logic.

I hear all kinds of theories about how this happened while we weren’t looking. But how to reverse it? Not much about that. In Assume the Physician, the doctors mount kind of a Spartacus slave revolt against the hospital and insurance companies. Sadly it ends pretty much the way Spartacus’ uprising ended.

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