Getting Out of Medicine
National Review
By Thomas Sowell
March 6, 2010
We can burden doctors with red-tape hassles, but we can’t make doctors put up with them.
Some years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired. On my last visit to his office, he took some time to explain to me why he was retiring early and in good health.
Being a doctor was becoming more of a hassle as the years went by, he said, and also less fulfilling. It was becoming more of a hassle because of the increasing paperwork, and it was less fulfilling because of the way patients came to him.