Why it’s hell to be a doctor in America today
By Susannah Cahalan
August 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is mad as hell.
American health care is in upheaval. On one side, overhead and malpractice insurance costs keep increasing, while salaries stagnate. On the other, patients believe that expensive drugs are better, more people are on government-run insurance that pays less, while private insurance fights every claim.
Now doctors spend most of their time trying to game the system, requiring endless paperwork, protracted bureaucratic battles and “treadmill medicine,” seeing as many patients as possible in as little time. This problem will only intensify as millions join the ranks of the insured under the Affordable Care Act.
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Dr. Sandeep JauharPhoto: Maryanne Russell
In this self-perpetuating cycle, doctors spend most of their time as businessmen — and care suffers.
It’s no wonder then that doctors no longer enjoy their jobs, explains Jauhar, director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and author of “Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), out now.
“This book is meant to be like the scene in ‘Network’ when [Howard Beale] opens the window and yells, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore,’ ” Jauhar says in an interview with The Post.
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Their mess started with the rise of managed care under Reagan and Bush 41. They should have fought it back then instead of complaining about it now.
Hire more staff.
Malpractice insurance is very high because the medical profession police themselves so the bad doctors are never tossed out nor do they loose there right to practice here or any where in the US.
Doctors should stop the whining and complaining. American physicians have for too long been grossly overcompensated when compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
How? Where is this fantastic money tree that will pay for more staff?
You are hoping insurance will pay?
Doctors have to learn how to manage their business. I do not feel sorry for them. Many small business owners do not make boatloads of money and are stretched thin.
Welcome to the world of business.
So shocking to hear that from a doctor. Doctors are crooks and have ripping the insurance companies off for years. 500 dollars for a office visit be real. Do doctors have doctors or they examine themselves.