"BUSINESS OF HEALTH CARE DEPENDS ON EXPLOITING DOCTORS AND NURSES."

I am going to turn today's column over to Dr. Danielle Ofri of New York City.  A physician at New York University, she also practices at Bellevue Hospital in New York.

She is a wonderful writer.  She wrote this in a recent op-ed piece for The New York Times about practicing medicine in 2019, putting words together in ways that cannot easily be improved upon:

    The health care system needs to be restructured to reflect the realities of patient care. From 1975 to 2010, the number of health care administrators increased 3,200 percent. There are now roughly 10 administrators for every doctor. If we converted even half of those salary lines to additional nurses and doctors, we might have enough clinical staff members to handle the work. Health care is about taking care of patients, not paperwork.

Danielle Ofri, The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses / One Resource Seems Infinite and Free:  The Professionalism of Caregivers, New York Times online Saturday, June 8, 2019 (The New York Times may charge for online access).

Dr. Ofri put those words together in ways that cannot easily be improved upon.  No-one should try.

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