Health-Care Reform Needs Change in Medical Culture

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"Nothing changes until something changes." Simple but true. Nothing changes until something changes in America's approach to health care -- also true but not so simple. Yet there is only reform chatter, not change (from the rise in the usual background noise of Washington, the National Security Agency knows there is an attack planned). I say chatter because no one is hearing anything but rumblings. There is no debate. Where are the ideas? There is no conversation that has reached the rest of the country.

What has been lofted in trial balloons is not change. Therefore, nothing will change. We will still be ranked low in most categories of health as compared to other developed countries. There is talk about a public plan for the 46 million uninsured citizens. But handing insurance cards to the 46 million will not fix the problem. It will only make matters worse. The problem is systemic. The whole body is ill, not just the legs. So now millions more will continue to receive the expensive, error-plagued, disorganized, crisis- focused, specialty-driven, inefficient bureaucratic mess.

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Health-Care Reform Needs Change in Medical Culture

Rearranging finances is only part of the solution. The task of true change must be nothing less than a cultural revolution inside medicine itself. Cultur...

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