I’ve been writing a lot about patients and doctors wresting away the management of health care from the dreaded insurance companies and government. In order for this to happen, the currently extant payment system must radically change. How do we accomplish this? It will not be an easy task, but as more influential people recognize the need, which seems to be happening, we can return to sanity.
And What About Dentists?
Aside from their willingness to explore dark, moist, cavernous spaces, a propensity proposed by The Redhead as common to dentists and gynecologists, dentists are worth including in the health care morass we’ve expounded upon here. So, I’ll now give you a dentist story or two.
But first, let me say that I don’t have dental insurance, so my relationships with dentists are not complicated by third-party payers. I’m the guy writing the checks and making the decisions.
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Dealing with Doctors: The Third Circle of Hell
Since The Turkey has been opining about doctors and decent health care, I decided I would join the “discussion.”
The Redhead’s Top Five Things I Hate about the U.S. Medical Profession
5. Physician’s Assistants. I agree with the Turkey on this one. ?????? ?????? ?????? When I go to the doctor, I want to see a doctor. P.A.’s are generally more arrogant than are doctors themselves. On a visit to my former OB/GYN’s office, I asked the P.A. a question of a personal nature (so I won’t mention it here). When the P.A. answered, she felt it necessary to do so by ending her sentence with “you silly girl.” My question might have been “silly” by her oh-so-knowledgable four year degree standards (okay, maybe two), but talking down to a patient in this manner is unacceptable. She may have been a P.A. at a gynecologist’s office, but she sure didn’t have much of a bedside manner.
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