Doctors complained to each other all the time and to anyone else who would listen. The system is broken. Referring mostly to bureaucracy, insurance, the skyrocketing cost of care, Big Pharma’s focus on only lucrative drugs, the cost of medical training itself plus licensing, and the exorbitant salaries of some specialties like oncology. But who could have broken our own system if not us? And the system wasn’t so much broken as it was circuitous, self-blaming, and operating under false pretenses. A hospital is a business, and businesses like to make money whether that profit came from goods or
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