Quote of the Week
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
Chinese Proverb
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See number 6 above. We will have “Grandaids” because most primary care doctors do no prevention, but sit on their fat butts writing fat prescriptions that cause more harm than good.
Oh, yeah? So now I have to precribe antibiotics to a child because he was exposed to the parent who had “bronchitis”? “To nip it in the bud,” as parents would say.
Wasn’t that the basis for Medicare withholding payments for In-house UTI’s, pneumonias, and anything else presumed to be iatrogenic?