Anger in medicine: righteous indignation or needless hostility?

As a family physician who also deals with this daily, I appreciate your thoughtful post on this topic. What is expected of physicians versus what we can deliver is profoundly disconnected, to the point where physicians have to emotionally unplug

Thanks for this one Mark. You nailed the diagnosis with Late Stage Capitalism…

Just one of quite a number of issues putting HCW in harm's way. Here in 🇨🇦, a big issue is lengthy wait times, lack of staff and limited options. Not a great combination either.

Thank you Mark for this thoughtful piece. Here’s a stat: if all MD salary is cut by 50% across all specialties, health care costs will drop by 4.7%… so that is not where it’s at. Cheers and keep doing your good deeds

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Ah yes, the perpetual banging our heads against a brick wall..informing a patient about a life-threatening diagnosis, while also simultaneously informing them that treatment or further work up won’t meaningfully begin for several months because of the insurance company. It’s sick

Righteous indignation… at the wrong target(s).

Righteous Indignation is a Virtue; it is a difficult Mean to attain.

We have allowed the MBAs sitting in their comfortable, Covid-safe offices and third party insurance companies to take away the practice of medicine. All doctors, nurses, and ancillary healthcare workers need to rise up and be relentless to advocate for patients and our profession

Thank you for this thoughtful and heartfelt post. Anger is part of the grieving process as you say, but physically assaulting a HCW is criminal. In Canada, lack of access, long wait times, hallway medicine in ER is worsening, HCW are being assaulted

I hear you ☹️