Friday, March 30, 2012

First Do No Harm

All MD's take this oath. In the case of U.S. physicians, by far the highest paid on the planet, almost none are keeping their promise.

The U.S. spends by far the most per capita on healthcare yet achieves poor results. Despite spending in excess of 300% of what France spends we have large portions of our population uncovered while France has 100% coverage.

Worse, despite the fact U.S., MD's make triple or even quadruple what their French peers make the U.S. is 36th in life expectancy while France is 6th.

Porqoui? The horrible stupid U.S. healthcare system exists as it is because American physicians want it this way.

Physician heal thyself.