Restoring Trust between Patient and Doctor

For almost 15 years, I have been straddling the fence between the medical profession and the public that consumes its services. My position as a onetime practicing physician and a current communicator to medical consumers has over the years drawn letters and comments from each side complaining about the other. However, I have sensed recently that each side recognizes more and more that continuing criticism will only make matters worse and that in a quite literal sense, neither side can afford to live without the other. Without good doctors to care for us, we medical consumers could pay a terrible, . . .