| A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient |  | Author: Edward E. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Random House
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ISBN: 0394562828
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19699400924
EAN: 9780394562827
ASIN: 0394562828
Publication Date: April 12, 1988
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 Little known facts about doctor-patient-hospital relationships June 26, 2008
I must identify myself so that my opinions may be put into proper context. I am a retired M.D. (Obs-Gyn) aged 84 retired 19 years. I retired when my malpractice insurance equaled all my other office expenses and consumed over one third of my gross income.
I, just as Dr. Rosenbaum, did not fully realize the lack of competence of many of my colleagues until I became a patient.
As a member of a Medicare HMO (which is the only way to go!) my designated hospital is Stanford University Hospital, which is the teaching hospital of Stanfor University School of Medicine. I am a 1954 graduate of the University of California at San Francisco and interned at the San Francisco City & County Hospital alongside the Stanford graduates. I also had admitting privileges at Stanford.
I knew that hospitals varied in their admitting routines but never realized how awful the admitting into a teaching hospital is for the patient. Take a book because you will be there several hours and be seen by many different personnel with no clue as to what their job or relationship to you is or is to be. With the politically correct, touchy-feely atmosphere permeating the institutions in California today, there are no uniforms, name tags or other identifying marks. Some of the doctors appear younger than my grandchildren and dress as though they are going to a rap concert. Some of the janitors have a more dignified mein than the residents. During my several admissions at Stanford I have never had what I considered a truly complete history and/or physical. As an aside, I have yet to have an examination as complete as we were expected to do as medical students.
I found that the younger doctor I choose as my personal physician upon retirement, in spite of having known me for several years and having been my physician for a few years, could not remember what my major problems were. He graduated a decade after I entered practice.
Medicine in 2008, even more than in 1988, the date of the book, has become a big business with little or none of the financial and scheduling aspects being under the control of the physician. As a Kaiser doctor for a few years, I should have seen it coming. The populace in the 60's & 70's had a drumbeat from the media about how the doctors were gouging the public and that HMO's were the answer. Well, now you have HMO's doing the deciding! Satisfied?
 The Doctor March 8, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read this book because I loved the movie, "The Doctor". The book has little resemblance to the movie. It is a factual account of the treatment for cancer bya doctor. There is little romance, no conflict with the wife and the patient played by Elizabeth Perkins only has passing mention.
Having said that the book is very interesting and I learned a lot about medicine.
Do not compare it to the movie.
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