| So the president began this week speaking to the workers in the system: doctors. At the meeting of the American Medical Association, Barack Obama tackled the model "that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession-a calling-to a business." He reminded doctors: "You didn't enter this profession to become bean counters and paper pushers. You entered this profession to be healers. And that's what our health care system |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.
