Change and the Case for Being a Medical Conservative:
When my favorite podcaster, the economist Tyler Cowan, asked Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel what nonobvious advice he would give to medical students today, the answer surprised me.
The famous bioethicist said:
I do think that this is probably the most exciting time in American medicine in a century, since really about 1910, 1920. And it causes a lot of anxiety for people, so I want to be sympathetic to that….
…We would prefer no change. But I do think, if you can go with the change, this is a super exciting time when lots of things are changing, and you can have a real positive impact in shaping the future, probably for at least half a century.”
I am not precisely sure what change he refers to, but you can feel change.
Electronic records have replaced paper charts;More patients contact me via electronic sources; I often crowdsource (with colleagues across the globe) difficult cases in real time;Advanced practice clinicians are replacing physicians, especially docs without a specific procedure or skill;Clinicians increasingly serve as translators of medical evidence.
But one thing that will never change about the practice of medicine is that there is a right way to do it.
Three colleagues and I recently described the right approach.
It is The Case for Being a Medical Conservative.[1]
My co-authors: Andrew Foy is an academic cardiologist at Penn State. He got it started with an outline. Adam Cifu, an academic internist ...
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