What’s YOUR fantasy? More and more doctors are putting patients in charge of designing their ideal health-care experience. Share your wildest dreams and I’ll do my best to bring them to life. Promise!

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While ideal clinics are opening all across America, some doctors accuse me of practicing “Alice-in-Wonderland” medicine.  When ridiculed, I often wonder: Why?

After all, who could be against ideal health care?

Even the Journal of Family Practice praises our innovative community-focused model. And now our clinic is featured in the newest edition of Harvard School of Public Health’s Renegotiating Health Care,

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I’ve been writing prescriptions for twenty years. Early in my career I realized what patients often need can’t be delivered by Pfizer or Merck. Here are some of the best prescriptions I’ve ever written:

• Have sex every day!
• Quit your job!
• Take a one-week vacation at the coast.

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I get a call this week from Maria, a “frustrated and disgusted” ob/gyn in Pennsylvania. I ask her how she found me. She says she dug out my article, one she’d been carrying around since 2007. After fifteen years in three employed hospital positions, she’s finally ready to quit assembly-line medicine.

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One of my sweetest patients is John, a man in his fifties with debilitating arthritis. He’s a fast-talking, anxious fellow who returned for some advice. He told me he wanted to stay active and volunteer, and was ready for the companionship of a good woman.

His blood pressure was higher than usual.

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Breakthrough cure for pain: LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyXoIql9hY

Have you laughed with your doctor lately? Share your story.

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Enjoy year-round sunshine with a month paid vacation. Earn 300K plus production bonus. No state tax! No call! Daily I’m bombarded with glossy postcards promising the good life.

With so many options, why are physicians fleeing medicine? Some leave for teaching, waitressing, even homemaking. Others escape into administration,

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4aWpjPtRwA

What do YOU think?

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As Jill leaves, she always says, “I love you!”

Sometimes I whisper. Other times I scream down the hall: “I love you too!”

I think it’s illegal. Or risky. I’m supposed to contain my love, to practice professional distance. But why dissociate from myself or from those I care for?

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I was once a factory-farmed physician. Then I escaped.

Six years ago I left my job and invited my community to design an ideal medical clinic. Thousands of physicians nationwide have created similar ideal, patient-centered practices.

Would we ever go back? Nope. Never. But from what did we actually escape?

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In honor of International Women’s Day I celebrate the perseverance of one female physician.

“In 1965 my mother, Judith Wible, received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Of 160 graduates, eight were female.

The dean and fellow classmates reminded the “girls” in the class that they were “taking a man’s seat” and they’d never use their degrees.

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I often wonder: Why am I a doctor?

Maybe I want to live in the real world, a world without pretense, a world where people can’t hide behind money or status. Illness exposes our authentici­ty.

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Is ideal medical care defined by experts, politicians, or physicians? None of the above.

I was trained in family & community medicine to care not only for the physical health of an individual but the social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural well-being of the patient, family ~ and community.

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Welcome to the Ideal Medical Care Blog ~ where politics, health care, and humanity intersect ~ your home for intelligent, provocative commentary on the movement to achieve ideal care for all. Inspired? I welcome your comments.

Pamela Wible MD

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