You Don't Have to Settle for a Mediocre Doctor

Finding a Doctor Who Cares About Your Health Isn't as Hard as You May Think...

Overworked. Too many patients. Not enough time. Too much paperwork. Patients who don't follow instructions. The high-cost of malpractice insurance. All of these are things that I understand doctors complain about, and rightly so. I'm quite sure it can't be easy to treat patient after patient each day, each with a different problem or concern. And the necessity of paying the extremely high price of malpractice insurance forces many doctors to over-schedule their days--they have to see a certain number of patients each day just to cover the costs of running the office. It has to add to the frustration when many of those patients fail to follow the doctor's instructions, ignoring important advice.

But, as much as I sympathize with how difficult it is to be a doctor, I can't help but think that some doctors just settle--they just settle for doing only what they have to do, and nothing more. And what's worse, many patients out there just accept this half-hearted practice of medicine. Maybe some of these patients think have no choice in which doctor they see due to the insurance that they have, or perhaps some are just staying with a certain doctor out of convenience, complacence, or some kind of misguided loyalty. Whatever the reason, though, lots of patients stick with a certain doctor, regardless of the doctor's skill, and no one should be doing this. People should be seeing doctors in whom they have complete confidence, doctors who have the patients' best interest in mind--not doctors who are simply concerned about the monetary bottom line of their practice.