Media Article: Doctor yearns for return to time when physicians were 'artisans'
By Michelle Andrews, National Public Radio
Introduction by Jim Bills, Vanderbilt Center for Experiential Learning and
Assessment
This was one of the most interesting interviews I have read in some time. ASPE eNews
has reported over the past several issues about the fact that thousands of patients die
or are gravely injured in this country annually due to medical error. We have also
reported on the important role of checklists and evidenced-based protocols in reducing
medical errors and saving lives.
However, in this interview on National Public Radio a few months ago, Dr. Abraham
Nussbaum, a psychiatrist at Denver Health Medical Center, bemoans the changes to
medicine that have transformed medical care from a calling for “artisan” practitioners to
an occupation where medical care is being taken out of the hands of physicians and
transformed into more of an assembly line approach. As Michelle Andrews of NPR
points out, Dr. Nussbaum believes that patients are being “shortchanged by current
medical practices that emphasize population-based standards of care rather than
individual patient needs and experiences.”
Please read the interview and think about whether the greater good of new medical
approaches outweigh the time when medical care was more individualized. Dr.
Nussbaum wishes that medicine was patient-centered, or does he really yearn for the
day when it was more physician-centered?
Link to article: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/24/479208775/doctoryearns-for-return-to-time-when-physicians-were-artisans?sc=17&f=1008&utm_source=
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