Nothing Can Be Gained In a Broken System

From Inheritancemag.com, by Paul Y. Song

In 1991 then United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop asked me and my fellow graduating medical students to raise our right hands and repeat the Hippocratic Oath.

“I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.”

In the nearly 25 years since then, and despite all of the amazing medical advances, I have found our medical system to be far too deleterious and mischievous for my patients. I have witnessed too many patients of mine go bankrupt from medical bills while cancer ravaged their bodies. I have seen too many of my patients patients being denied necessary tests and treatment by insurance companies. And I have seen too many uninsured or Medicaid patients with advanced incurable cancer simply because they did not have timely access to a doctor.

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Published September 10th, 2015

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