I wish I could write that medical care today is an optimal, cost-effective and efficient system that consistently provides appropriate and sterling medical care. I wish I could write that pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and extended care facilities all view patient care as their primary and overriding mission. I wish I could write that physicians all share the highest ethos of patient advocacy. It is not possible to achieve these idealistic goals as the individual professionals, corporate entities and the government that comprise the medical profession are imperfect and face numerous conflicts of interests. Indeed, this blog as devoted considerable space to highlighting these issues. Here’s a representative vignette from my world. I was asked to see a hospitalized patient for an opinion on her low blood count, or anemia. This is a common request for gastroenterologists as internal bleeding is a frequent explanation for anemia. This is when we gastroenterologists
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