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Academic Impacts on Family Physicians
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Is Health a Right? |
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Good News About Family Medicine |
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Ladies and gentlemen, you know we're in big trouble in medicine today in this country when there's a code not only for flatulence, but one for the guy standing downwind as well. I'm not making this up. If you look in the ICD-9 diagnosis coding book that Medicare requires physicians to use, you'll find a code for almost everything that can happen to a person…. There's even a code for a person who has been sucked into a jet engine. Now think about that.Why would you need a code for a person who has been sucked into a jet engine? by Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. , President Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
I have found it interesting that many activists, myself included, are actually functioning with a mix of God-given wisdom, God-given compassion, and God-given passion. I don't know of many physicians who were not abused in some way. Those who were not abused, have come to think that they were abused. They transfer this sense of injustice to a patient or patients and take up their banner. Those who can make it to the broader context of what God wants for each of us, may lose some of the apparent passion, but they will be able to find depths of knowledge, understanding, and energy that they will never be able to understand.
No, we are not even close to this vision. We have shared only a small part of this with our sons and almost none with our daughter. We are still struggling with priorities in our marriage and intimacy. I am meeting weekly with two FP colleagues to explore issues in this area in a Christian perspective. We all discovered common ground here. Perhaps we are better at priorities for patients or for promotion, etc. I hope that you will ponder the mission of your family, and your role in fulfilling that mission.