As an ER doctor, you don't have the option of jumping ship and going Direct Primary Care, as far as I know.. But I wish more physicians would entertain Direct Primary Care as a practice alternative to being owned by corporate medicine. At least the public would have some choice then, and not be locked into the horrible sink hole corporate medicine is today. The U.S. is the only developed country without universal healthcare and has a maternal death rate on a par with Colombia. The only way to decrease this rate in the U.S. is to provide universal healthcare to families without access to care for pregnant women and their families.
The image of the corporate health pirate yacht riding and raiding on the great sea of morbidity is an ingenious and well-deserved metaphor.
As an ER doctor, you don't have the option of jumping ship and going Direct Primary Care, as far as I know.. But I wish more physicians would entertain Direct Primary Care as a practice alternative to being owned by corporate medicine. At least the public would have some choice then, and not be locked into the horrible sink hole corporate medicine is today. The U.S. is the only developed country without universal healthcare and has a maternal death rate on a par with Colombia. The only way to decrease this rate in the U.S. is to provide universal healthcare to families without access to care for pregnant women and their families.