"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 May 2006 00:14:59 GMT, "Maxprop" said:

It's more than just boredom. It's frustration with the legal climate
surrounding health care, the governmental intervention that imposes more
and
more controls over how a qualified physician can practice medicine, and
the
eroding doctor-patient relationship, thanks to the first two items.

Undoubtedly true. He who pays the piper calls the tune. The combination of
third party payment systems and a greedy plaintiff's bar puts less and
less
emphasis on what the patient wants or needs. The medical profession is
coming closer and closer to the media business model, in which those using
the service are not the consumers of the service, but the product sold to
those who pay for the service. Just as a newspaper makes money by selling
advertisers access to its readers, so MDs succeed by developing a large
base
of product in the form of patients, and selling third party payors access
to
those patients.

A nice analogy, but inaccurate. It's the third-party payors who sell the
product (patients) to the practitioners. Speak with any physician who has
watched his long term patients perform a mass exodus from his practice when
a third party, with which he is not a provider, sells his patients, or their
employer, their song and dance.

Max