For Providers

All providers everywhere ask the same four questions.

1. When did my noble calling turn in to painful work?
2. Why does the system make it hard to help people?
3. When did I become a perp, instead the guy with the white hat?
4. Why do I have all the responsibility and the Public has none?

Everyone from the President on down agrees the “system is broken” yet no one is fixing THE SYSTEM, just blaming parts of it.

SOMEBODY has to fix healthcare. Washington has not and cannot. Who better to practice good medicine on a sick person (or sick system) than healthcare professionals?

WE know what good medical practice is: evidence-based; treating causes not symptoms; incentives aligned with outcomes; and having effective feedback built into the system. At present, healthcare has none of these.

The book “Uproot U.S. Healthcare” offers us a way to do what we were trained to do: diagnose and treat sick things – people or systems.

I therefore ask that you read the book; encourage other colleagues in healthcare to read the book; and then exhort your patients to do the same. To make it easier for you (and them) to purchase the book, I negotiated a 25% discount if purchased here on this web site.

Next, we need to start talking to each other, public and providers alike, about healthcare. That is the purpose of this web site. Over time, we can develop a consensus about what the system should do and what individuals should do.

Then we should demand a national vote on healthcare that will show what we want the system to do and what we want the system not to do. The Public and healthcare professionals together must demand a new system (not tweaking what we have) based on our agreed-upon principles.

Such a process will produce an affordable, accessible, patient-centered continuously learning healthcare system in which you and I will be proud and happy to work.