http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/personal-finance-writer-scott-burns-offers-some-good-healthcare-advice-too/ Helping Americans Buy Prescription Drugs Online from Canada Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:09:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/personal-finance-writer-scott-burns-offers-some-good-healthcare-advice-too/comment-page-1/#comment-158220 Lyle G. Bohlman MD Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:23:15 +0000 http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/personal-finance-writer-scott-burns-offers-some-good-healthcare-advice-too/#comment-158220 Scott, of course speaks with wisdom on this subject. I have practiced medicine for more than 30 years, my father and older brother were physicians and I have seen the slow transformation of a profession moving inexorably a from patient centered service orientation to a disease centered cost orientation with all the attendant alienation of the patients we ostensibly "serve" being left in the wake of the profit motif that by necessity drives business. I think it is too late for our country... I read with amusement letters from British physicians in the British Medical Journal campaigning to prevent the EU's allowing Direct to Consumer drug advertising. I do hope they are successful. Doctors in England may not be wealthy, but they are professional and patient centered. Scott, of course speaks with wisdom on this subject. I have practiced medicine for more than 30 years, my father and older brother were physicians and I have seen the slow transformation of a profession moving inexorably a from patient centered service orientation to a disease centered cost orientation with all the attendant alienation of the patients we ostensibly “serve” being left in the wake of the profit motif that by necessity drives business. I think it is too late for our country… I read with amusement letters from British physicians in the British Medical Journal campaigning to prevent the EU’s allowing Direct to Consumer drug advertising. I do hope they are successful. Doctors in England may not be wealthy, but they are professional and patient centered.

]]>