Yet Americans are disenchanted with the health services they receive and with the physicians who care for them. Patient dissatisfaction with doctors has rarely been more acute. Increasingly physicians are viewed not as advocates, but as a purveyors of costly technologic merchandise. This is universally acknowledged. The crisis is ascribed to runaway health expenditures, now a trillion dollars annually.
Numerous remedies focus on cost containment.
Doctors in the Lown Group take a different view. The problem is far deeper than economics. The basic reason is that medicine has lost its way, if not its soul by abandoning a nurturing doctor-patient relationship, without which healing is impossible. Come talk with us. Let us share insights and together make sense of what must be done.