While many probably believe that the negative impact on the healthcare system's reputation is based on the nation's Covid response, I will endeavor to provide, from the perspective of a retired physician and patient, a roadmap that brings all of the elements of the healthcare system together to explain how the disastrous Covid response merely highlighted the rot, rather than being its cause.
The healthcare industry can be divided into four interrelated disciplines: 1) Hands-on care providers; 2) Researchers; 3) Public health professionals; and 4) Designers and administrators of health systems infrastructure.
The importance of this is that the lay public's relationship with the healthcare system is largely through their primary care physician.
Would the public have reacted differently if they were aware that the person they trusted most to help them navigate the healthcare system was beholden to someone other than them?
I'm providing these details, because, as I'll show, it is relevant to the current state of the entire healthcare system.
My medical school and residency training was followed by almost 40 years of healthcare experience, including 19 years of direct patient care in a rural setting as a Board Certified Internist; 17 years of clinical research in the areas of substance use, HIV, and HCV at a private-not-for-profit healthcare agency, where I was lead or co-author of approximately two dozen papers published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Recently, I've had what I believe were very constructive interactions with Brownstone contributors, who for the most part are not healthcare professionals.
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-retired-physicians-view-of-american-healthcare/
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