Three Quick Shortcomings in the Medical System

   Improvements could be made in our medical system. I think of three quick shortcomings.

   (1.) When the doctor is afraid of being sued, he or she clams up -- and this means they quit diagnosing as thoroughly as they should. You are asking them how the procedure went, and they provide little input. They need to be diagnosing what is still wrong, but don't, because they are fearful that any shortcomings or things that went wrong in surgery, will be used against them in a lawsuit. If the surgery left you worse off, they don't want that on record. So, they simply do not ask all the questions they should to properly diagnose you.

   (2.) The person deciding if you should receive a surgery is usually the surgeon, him- or herself. They make their living off the surgeries, so of course they are inclined to recommend them. And, they have a product that is beneficial. Surgeries do help. They do wonderful things. The doctor, feeling he or she has something that is a good product, and knowing he or she will make a profit by performing the surgery, perhaps recommends it even at times when it is not necessary.

   (3.) Insurance protocols throw the process on an assembly line. Doctors do things by checklist, rather than need. As long as they can check off the item, saying they did it, that becomes their objective.