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Oh, that'd be a big hit, to have this author interviewed on VSRF. I spoke with my clinician about The Mess (and even regarding The Big Mess created by "The Thing.."). She agreed that the way medicine is practiced needs to change. I don't think they're happy, either.. imagine... every time your patient tries to see you they can't get in when they need to see you, instead you just get assigned to whomever's available that day... that's Kaiser for ya, but it gets voted as best provider. As the late Michael C. Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the end of the Age of Oil, put it, "Change the way money works or you change nothing."

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I am one hundreds of ex Kaiser physicians. They were a reasonable employer many years ago and the care was decent, but I saw kaiser rot away at the core. They moved from a patient centered care to a business productivity model. When I first started at Kaiser I saw 20 patients a day maximum and spent a lot of time with them. My boss was a respected senior surgeon. When I left kaiser my boss was a MBA that traded stocks online at work and told me to see 40 patients a day.

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I agree with everything you're saying, that's been my experience there as a patient over the decades. Kaiser, like other HMOs, is not patient-centered. Medicine should NEVER be "for profit." So do you practice still? Are you in private practice? I'm looking for a functional medicine physician because it's very clear to me that this is the future of real medicine and actual health, and not the kind where you're told to slather on, inject or ingest some toxic crap that causes 20 other problems for which you'll be prescribed 5 other "medicines" all of which work together to kill you by totally destroying your body's natural ability to heal. This kind of "health" has at it's core an ANTAGONISTIC, ADVERSARIAL WORLD VIEW-- Soooooo disgusting-- HELP!

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