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You will be amazed how Medicare’s good intentions have systematically destroyed physicians’ opportunity to care about their patients.Patients will find out why your physician seems so rushed and why they only have time to deal with one problem per visit.Physician readers will get a new understanding of why the joy of medical practice is shrinking.

The story begins with the Sustainable Growth Ratio in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. The same Medicare mentality is continued in the 2014 MACRA legislation. The burden of “Value Based Purchasing” was added to the misguided effort to control the total cost of Medicare by reducing how much Medicare allow for physicians.

The forced adoption of the primitive Electronic Health Record severely compounded the demands heaped upon physicians which prevents them from having time and energy to care for their patients. The Electronic Health Record also inserted a computer screen between the patient and their physician, which damaged communication. Ever-increasing bureaucratic and administrative demands block physicians’ opportunity for caring. That is also the cause of increasing physician “burnout”.

Caring was and should be the Heart of Healing.

Above all else, Caring about as well as for their patients is what physicians want to do. Taking that away from physicians causes an essential “Moral Injury” to physicians and it takes away the joy of practicing medicine.

This expose’ documents concisely how that obstruction is primarily due to Medicare’s missteps over the last 25 plus years.

The book concludes with some concrete suggestions on how to restore caring in the American medical system. Now is the time to buy the book and get an overview of what is happening to care in the America medical care system.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09766RJNN
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (June 18, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 93 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8521506378
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.21 x 9 inches