The Basic Healthcare Transaction
Why do patients feel like they are treated like cows, not humans? Why does our system produce more sick people getting more procedures? Why are things so different for the patients in my new practice? It all comes down to one thing: the basic financial transaction of the healthcare system. From it flow all of the bad things doctors and patients experience. From my rejection of it flow all of the wonderful changes to the care I can now give. There is no meaningful reform that can happen without changing this basic transaction.