Window of opportunity for physicians

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With the recent increase of media attention to healthcare issues via Time's story Bitter Pill http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

and Dr. Ben Caron's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFb6NU1giRA

Should we as physicians take this opportunity to speak up and talk about issues that have gradually eroded our field in the past decade? It seems that so many physicians and future physicians learn to play the game (which there is nothing wrong with that). But why not try to change the rule of the game altogether so we wouldn't have to constantly worry about what will happen to our profession 5 years from now? The AMA is not serving it's purpose, something else needs to happen.

I for one agree that physicians should play a much bigger role in washington and policy-making. For the patients as well as our own autonomy.

 

[ManaPool]

lol pre-med

 

[SuperWobble]

Honestly, yours and my profession is on the way down due to PPACA and science budget sequestration and all you can say is lol pre-med? Get off your high chair and realize that your attitude is a plaque in medicine these days that makes politicians, lawyer, and mid-levels walk all over us. BTW I am a medical student.

 

[apumic]

Honestly, yours and my profession is on the way down due to PPACA and science budget sequestration and all you can say is lol pre-med? Get off your high chair and realize that your attitude is a plaque in medicine these days that makes politicians, lawyer, and mid-levels walk all over us. BTW I am a medical student.

If you're a medical student, maybe you should change your title so that people won't assume you have no clue what you're talking about? You have no reputation here, so you can't expect people to assume you have any knowledge about things.

Additionally, why did you mark "Pre-Med" when you just signed up here within the last couple of weeks? I smell a rat.... or maybe a troll.

As for policy-making, physicians have always been behind the times when it comes to lobbying but what solution do you propose?