HAILE T. DEBAS, MD
Maintaining Professionalism During Tough Times
We live in challenging times. We have a dysfunctional health care system characterized by declining reimbursement for physicians' services, declining federal subsidies to medical education, with impending cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid, and graduate medical education funding. Rising malpractice rates in several parts of the country are discouraging some physicians from staying in practice, forcing others to move to different states, and threatening the provision of emergency care.
As if this were not enough, the medical profession is subjected to numerous unfunded federal mandates including the PATH [Physicians at Teaching Hospitals] Audit, HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act], and EMTALA [Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act]. In addition, we see unprecedented levels of scrutiny both from government and the public. Physicians in practice and those aspiring to practice have noticed the degradation of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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