Trust Is Gone from Healthcare (and Washington)

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By Deane Waldman, M.D.

Americans no longer have faith in health care workers or medical institutions. According to Wisconsin Public Radio, 2022 was the worst year on record for attacks against providers of medical care. The New York City Council recently created an Office of Healthcare Accountability to "shine a spotlight on hospitals that charge exorbitant prices" and gouge the public.

Apparently, we trust neither health care workers nor medical facilities to put patients first (as most hospital signage proudly proclaims). This is not misperception. It is reality.

In healthcare, both people and institutions serve a third party, government and/or insurance, rather than patients. That statement is written with pain by this physician-author who practiced medicine for nearly half a century.

Both people and institutions in healthcare want to do right by patients, but they cannot. The masters they serve are government bureaucrats and insurance executives, not sick people.