So yesterday I get this email from a physician friend. . .
Subject: On Call 24/7 🙂
Some on-call text messages from my patients:
“I fell better just hearing from you”
“Good deal thanks!”
“Enjoy your family this week!”
“Well,
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Doctors spend their 20s and 30s studying while most of their friends are at parties and enjoying their youth.
Doctors may amass up to 500K debt for the honor of one day caring for you and your family.
Doctors delay childbearing and starting their own families so they can care for your family.
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Most docs aren’t happy. I wasn’t either. Until I left assembly-line medicine.
In 2004, I held town hall meetings where I invited citizens to design their own ideal clinic. I collected 100 pages of testimony, adopted 90 percent of feedback, and we opened one month later.
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