Comments on: Pelosi bill is anti-tort reform http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00530 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Stephen Strum http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00530#comment-3398 Stephen Strum Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:38:20 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/?p=530#comment-3398 When will we physicians learn that without a manifestation of our unity about key issues relating to healthcare that our goals will not be realized? I would like to see a DAY OF UNITY when every physician in the USA joins with his and her fellow colleagues on "main street" USA and shows that we, the doctors, are sick of having a healthcare plan created by a bunch of bureaucrats who no little about our profession. There is a need to show such unity to our patients. Who in the medical profession has been asked for input on the healthcare plan du jour? Why is there not a Manhattan Project-like approach to this problem involving physicians with decades of experience in the front lines of patient care, contributing their best ideas and getting feedback from a caucus of their peers. Then, present what is agreed upon to our elected officials. These lawyers in Congress should not be devising a health plan any more than Joe the plumber should plan a wedding. And, after a plan is created, why is there not a PILOT trial involving a limited population of patients to try out such a plan to see if patients and physicians find it acceptable, before glibly jumping into another frying pan--which seems to be our government's modus operandi for too long a time. Stephen B. Strum, MD, FACP Medical Oncologist When will we physicians learn that without a manifestation of our unity about key issues relating to healthcare that our goals will not be realized? I would like to see a DAY OF UNITY when every physician in the USA joins with his and her fellow colleagues on “main street” USA and shows that we, the doctors, are sick of having a healthcare plan created by a bunch of bureaucrats who no little about our profession. There is a need to show such unity to our patients.

Who in the medical profession has been asked for input on the healthcare plan du jour?

Why is there not a Manhattan Project-like approach to this problem involving physicians with decades of experience in the front lines of patient care, contributing their best ideas and getting feedback from a caucus of their peers. Then, present what is agreed upon to our elected officials. These lawyers in Congress should not be devising a health plan any more than Joe the plumber should plan a wedding.

And, after a plan is created, why is there not a PILOT trial involving a limited population of patients to try out such a plan to see if patients and physicians find it acceptable, before glibly jumping into another frying pan–which seems to be our government’s modus operandi for too long a time.

Stephen B. Strum, MD, FACP
Medical Oncologist

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