Doctors have become a profession of whiners. Meetings, dinners, doctor lounges and the blogosphere are flooded with physician complaints, tirade, and anger. The volume of pained voices suggests that health Armageddon is only a few moments away.
It was not always so. Medicine is a career where idealism runs rampant. In medical school interviews, young students really do answer that they want to help their fellow man. Nonetheless, in recent years that has changed.
Instead of espousing the latest breakthroughs, preaching preventative care or carrying on collegial disagreement about research direction, doctors harangue about insurance company dominance, the intrusion of dehumanizing electronic records, ridged evidence-based, Venn-diagram treatment regulations, lost autonomy, malpractice assault and of course plummeting reimbursement. Why has the mantra of the doctor moved from, “I am here to help,” to, “I am here to be harassed?”
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