Of Specialists

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

                            -  Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

Specialists' Insist on More Care and Higher Prices

I agree with much of what this ENT doctor says. It is very brave and honest of him to own up to the responsibility we as physicians have for skyrocketing healthcare costs.  His solution, however, is overly simplistic and relies on more government funding and government regulation. An excess of these we can also see feeding healthcare cost spikes.

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