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We’ve become a nation of hypochondriacs. Every sneeze is swine flu, every headache a tumor. And at great expense, we deliver fantastically prompt, thorough and largely unnecessary care. There is tremendous financial pressure on physicians to keep patients happy. But unlike business, in medicine the customer isn’t always right. Sometimes a doctor needs to show tough love and deny patients the quick fix. A good physician needs to have the guts to stand up to people and tell them that their baby gets ear infections because they smoke cigarettes. That it’s time to admit they are alcoholics. That they need to suck it up and deal with discomfort because narcotics will just make everything worse. That what’s really wrong with them is that they are just too damned fat. Unfortunately, this type of advice rarely leads to high patient satisfaction scores.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. What a fabulous paragraph, even if the article is a couple of years old. Click on the link below to read the rest of the article by Dr. Thomas A. Doyle. No, I don’t know who he is or anything about him either, except for the bit of blurb at the end of the article. But he has some very interesting things to say, don’t you think? 

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