Not when it is paid for by Pharmaceutical companies. Medical professionals with integrity & a real understanding of science are walking away from their jobs. In Oregon the NG was called up to work positions in hospitals. More need to walk away.
The people have more power than what they know. All it would take is for enough patients to vote with their feet and their dollars to start to turn some of this around. Where are all the patients in this fight? It takes all of us working together. It is hard for a provider to leave it all on the field while patients continue to flock to the next provider in line. How many continue to stay with a woke practitioner instead of walking out? I am afraid not enough. When a provider that is trying to do the right thing is being hammered by their licensing board, the public needs to show up and support the practitioner. The boards are not used to that kind of eyes on. They don't like it. The support of the patients and the public is enough many times to sway the board from acting on their threats. That is part of the reason the front line docs have been so public - it helps to protect them.
Because we have demanded an insurance based pharmaceutical system that has dictated the terms, we are stuck with what they have been willing to throw at us. Many practitioners have walked away when the ADA was passed. They either retired or went into subscription based practice. I am currently on the sidelines. It is not an easy decision to make. At least I had the foresight to see this kind of crap getting ready to hit the fan and prepared - as least as much as anyone can be prepared for the possibility of being forced out of a career. There are more of us than people realize.
Not when it is paid for by Pharmaceutical companies. Medical professionals with integrity & a real understanding of science are walking away from their jobs. In Oregon the NG was called up to work positions in hospitals. More need to walk away.
The people have more power than what they know. All it would take is for enough patients to vote with their feet and their dollars to start to turn some of this around. Where are all the patients in this fight? It takes all of us working together. It is hard for a provider to leave it all on the field while patients continue to flock to the next provider in line. How many continue to stay with a woke practitioner instead of walking out? I am afraid not enough. When a provider that is trying to do the right thing is being hammered by their licensing board, the public needs to show up and support the practitioner. The boards are not used to that kind of eyes on. They don't like it. The support of the patients and the public is enough many times to sway the board from acting on their threats. That is part of the reason the front line docs have been so public - it helps to protect them.
Because we have demanded an insurance based pharmaceutical system that has dictated the terms, we are stuck with what they have been willing to throw at us. Many practitioners have walked away when the ADA was passed. They either retired or went into subscription based practice. I am currently on the sidelines. It is not an easy decision to make. At least I had the foresight to see this kind of crap getting ready to hit the fan and prepared - as least as much as anyone can be prepared for the possibility of being forced out of a career. There are more of us than people realize.