Dropping Out is NOT the Answer

I like Dr. Pamela Wible. I think she’s doing fantastic work bringing attention to the tragedy of physician and medical student suicide. We also have similar practice styles (solo, unhurried visits, total communication) although hers is a subscription practice and I still make do with insurance. Also, she’s monetized it with the title Ideal Micropractice, an organization which costs $250 a year to join. After 26+ years, I’m pretty comfortable with my version, which is ideal for me, and can’t see paying for the privilege of sharing what I’ve learned. (I just offer it for free to anyone who asks.) But her latest blog post, titled “Yes! You can open your dream clinic — without completing residency” crosses the line. A video of a frustrated young resident, complaining that her residency was just training her to become a “robot doctor”, waxes rhapsodic on the joys of dropping out and opening her own practice. Complete with naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, “body work” (whatever that is; massage?) and “functional medicine” of course. All with the approval and support of her marvelous mentor, Dr. Wible. Granted Dr. Wible lives in Oregan, where the woo flows deep and fast (ie, “alt med” is widely accepted.) But just because lots of people believe in unscientific nonsense dressed up as “medicine” doesn’t alter [see what I did there?] the inconvenient realities of science,...
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