I worked 40 years as a psychiatrist, retired in 2012, and found helping family and neighbors much more satisfying than doing EHR's and billing. I like to write, appreciate your books and postings, go to a number of medical appointments myself, and am actually SORRY for the robot-like doctors staring at their screens. Have you looked into PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Plan) or the AMA? (They need you desperately.) (Still, I can understand many good reasons for not giving too much time----like your horses, etc.) Anyhow, I thank you for your thoughtful and personal description of practicing medicine----I hope you work (with some reduction of hours) til you're 90! Bill Houghton
I worked 40 years as a psychiatrist, retired in 2012, and found helping family and neighbors much more satisfying than doing EHR's and billing. I like to write, appreciate your books and postings, go to a number of medical appointments myself, and am actually SORRY for the robot-like doctors staring at their screens. Have you looked into PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Plan) or the AMA? (They need you desperately.) (Still, I can understand many good reasons for not giving too much time----like your horses, etc.) Anyhow, I thank you for your thoughtful and personal description of practicing medicine----I hope you work (with some reduction of hours) til you're 90! Bill Houghton