This week I promised you specific examples of dumb rules that we doctors must comply with. Here are just a few. There are enough ridiculous regulations to fill multiple blogs devoted only to this issue posting hourly around the clock. Yeah, I sound a mite cranky now. The truth is that I still enjoy the work of doctoring. I love my time with my patients. There is, however, an increasing burden of stuff thrust upon us that takes time, energy and money away from our healing mission. Perhaps, these regs are solving someone’s problem somewhere. I suppose that this should comfort me knowing that somewhere in a government cubicle, a bureaucrat is smiling. Floor Plan of Cubicles Where Health Care is Reformed We are required to ask patients their ethnicity. Of course, many of them including myself are uncertain how to respond to this accurately. I’m sure that our staff conveys an impression of knowledge and professionalism when they shrug their shoulders in cluel
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