From the Blogosphere
The Biggest Mistake is Not Learning from One
John Mandrola, MD
A
friend recently asked me why I am
so hard on doctors. “You write a lot
of negative stuff about us,” he said.
That worries me. I am not a nihilist. I believe
in what we do. I put doctoring decidedly in the noble category,
right alongside teachers.
In fact, my attachment to doctoring is the reason I write about it.
Here’s my thinking about confronting negative stuff: One of the
major problems with health care at this moment is an erosion of
trust in doctors. We have a credibility problem. The information
age has changed the landscape of medicine in two major ways:
First, access to health inform