Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
New York Timesnytimes.comSaved by Emily Silverman, MD
Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
Saved by Emily Silverman, MD
In both cases, providers and patients are working toward their own self-interest given the health care choices they face. Health care providers are trying to make the best living possible by structuring days to see a maximum number of patients, in light of the demands that administrative and paperwork place on their time. Patients and their familie
... See moreFighting a rising tide of paperwork and bureaucracy, providers of health care, whether physicians, nurses, or administrators, say that time has become a scarce resource of which they have far too little.
Nurses, who are perhaps closest to patients’ day-to-day issues, hear about the realities of people’s social circumstances and recognize that medical care is just one small input to health and well-being.
the United States is in the midst of a crisis rooted not just in rising costs but in the very meaning and ethics of care.