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Re: Blame for HMO's--was Health Insurance & HMOs From: Gerald P. Rodriguez (geraldpr@roadrunner.com) Tue Dec 30 08:19:48 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe: "Re: Prematurity vs Chemotherapy" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Health Insurance/HMO's" Next in thread: Larry glazerman: "Re: Blame for HMO's--was Health Insurance & HMOs" Reply: Larry glazerman: "Re: Blame for HMO's--was Health Insurance & HMOs" Gosh and Golly! Now we are indulging in blame and finger-pointing at yesteryears' or "senior" physicians for not becoming "cost-effective." This in turn has lead into the abyss of mangled care? I don't think so. I have been in practice for 27 years and I have plenty to feel guilty about already, e.g., WWII and the atomic-bombing of Japan, the holocaust, race relations, male chauvinism, etc., etc. Not being "cost-effective" in my earlier years in practice is one item for which I will *not* take the rap. Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| "I would place the American aristocracy, not among the rich, who have no common tie, but put it on the judicial bench and the bar." A. de Tocqueville on American lawyers ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Woolley <wooll005@tc.umn.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <ob-gyn-l@talk.obgyn.net> Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Health Insurance/HMO's >In message <38d5478b.34a83ff2@aol.com> writes: > And, for anyone else, especially you "senior" docs, any lack of >> interest in the business of medicine helped get us where we are now. Had we >> physicians paid more attention, several years ago, to the proper use of our >> technology and tests and reined in our young colleagues about over utilizing >> it without regard to cost; we might have avoided this over-zealous attempt to >> control us now. > >At least I can agree wholeheartedly with this assessment. Since we couldn't >bring ourselves to become cost-effective, it is being imposed upon us. > >Bob Woolley >St. Paul, Minnesota > Next message: DoctorJoe: "Re: Prematurity vs Chemotherapy" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Health Insurance/HMO's" Next in thread: Larry glazerman: "Re: Blame for HMO's--was Health Insurance & HMOs" Reply: Larry glazerman: "Re: Blame for HMO's--was Health Insurance & HMOs"

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