I really think we're on the same side. I hate this type of "medicine". I didn't like P.A.'s on my trauma service in residency trying to tell the chief residents how it should be done. But that was ego most of the time. Rarely did we let it get in they way of patient care. I loved our P.A.s but they had a superficial/"cookbook" style and fortunately, most of them knew that.
But I'm with Leslie on this one. Doctors screwed up long ago and let our ethics, morals, and hope to actually help patients guide the way while the lawyers of the world stomped on us and took control. This is just more of the same...and it's happening in the healthcare reform circles now. They always talk about trying to decrease doc's salaries and the doc's "fraud" but tend to leave insurance reform or tort reform on the back burner. Don't want to bite the hand that feeds you.
