[datavirtue]

Doctors seem to me like deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming train that is the medical system. My wife just lost her third primary care doctor because of turnover. When I was a kid we had family doctors we had known and visited at their office for twenty years and one doctor would stop by our house to visit and check in on my brother whom he diagnosed and treated as a cystic fibrosis patient for over a decade. We were just an insignificant middle class (working class) family in Cincinnati.

These days the bedside manner is trash. Though I don't blame the doctors. And they are little more than privileged employees...if that. The real service they provide, and the service people are growing to expect, is to navigate the insurance system to wrangle out some semblance of coverage. Being employees the most you are going to get is a wink and a nod because as employees they cannot speak freely.