Sex, Drugs, And Scrubs
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This is a story about what it took to become a doctor when doctors were physicians, not providers. It is about a young doctor doing his internship in a city/county hospital in the early seventies and the training he went through to become a competent physician. It is about his struggle to find love and maintain hope in the face of the daunting challenges he faced. It is about the wild drug- and alcohol-fueled parties coupled with the torrid nights of unrestrained passion he needed in order to deal with the pathos of the human condition he encountered every day at the hospital. It is first and foremost a love story about two young lovers, but interwoven in the framework of their love are the obstacles they have to overcome and the transitions they had to go through to reach the threshold of a bright future together. It is about one year, the internship year, in the life of a young doctor going through hell, but finding heaven in the love of a beautiful, exceptional, young woman.The United States is ranked 11th in the world among industrialized nations in health care, yet the cost of health care in this country is the highest in the world and double the cost in France, the country with the best ranking. There are multiple reasons why Americans pay more and get less, but one major factor is physician quality. Health care quality is tied to physician quality. This country once had the best health care in the world because it had the best physicians in the world. Those physicians were trained with methods that went back to Dr. William Osler, the Father of Modern Medicine. However, the methods he developed damaged many doctors during their training and left some of them with a form of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Reforms were instituted in the training methods, but those reforms left deficits in the physicians training. The medical profession needs to find ways to replicate the previous training experience without damaging physicians in the process in order to improve
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