Creating the Practice for the Future

摘要

The transition into the next era of medicine has placed the US health care system in an awkward and ironic moment. At a time when the country faces its greatest need for its physicians to rally to the cause of restoring, protecting, and growing the health of its citizens, the health care system remains antagonistic to physicians. At a time when the country needs more doctors than ever to serve its aging and ailing population, the health care system has made it difficult to choose the practice of medicine as a career. The preservation and elevation of the independent physician in modern society is opined here as a national imperative that has been ignored at risk to the health of the nation.