now, the doctors are more concerned with their job and not the patient and i think they like to do their job and aren't exactly as worried about the patient anymore.
To simplify greatly, we have gone from care to cure.
Cure: Doctors can now cure many things that they could not cure before. New cures and treatments continue to be discovered and used; specialists get more and more specialized and expert. Lewis Thomas (born 1913) wrote somewhere that when he was in medical school they were big on diagnosis because there were four things they could cure and they didn’t want to miss any of them.
Care: Of course many many doctors care a lot about their patients. But the system we have in place now makes it much harder for them to show this. Partly, this is a direct result of the increased expertise - it is completely impossible for anyone to be expert in all fields of medicine. But it’s also due to the fact that internists/GPs are now incredibly pressed for time. They also fear lawsuits. And the notion that you have one doctor - usually for many years or even decades - is gone because you have to go to one that takes your insurance and that changes when you change jobs. House calls are impossible because of both the increase in equipment and the time pressure.
