OK, so what do we do about it? What should our war strategy be? We have pleaded for years to Congress and our professional associations for change. Now that the Messiah of Change (sorry, couldn't resist) will be coming in January, can we expect things to improve? I am gloomily pessimistic. So, instead of trying to wage a World War, I just keep plodding along waging my little battles on the home front. Unfortunately, too many physicians refuse to fight at all and just wave the white flags and surrender. Until we somehow rile up the locals (patients) nothing will change. We somehow need to get the Rosie The Riveters behind us. And, if it takes us as their physicians to exert some pressures by refusing to bend and refusing to abide by their insurance company's so called "rules" then so be it. Losing their nylons 60 years ago was enough to move the masses then. Surely we have more persuasive measures now. (Sorry for all the metaphores....couldn't resist again).

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "