I don't think it is about us. I think it is about donor fees, funds, grants, symposia, abstracts, speaker fees, and fame, not to mention admiration from friends and colleagues.
Sadly, we have a few doctors who have forgotten why they are doctors. My uncle is a doctor - quite a surgeon amongst his colleagues, and he is quick to tell me all of the papers he has spent his lifetime on... and the lectures and the travels.... but I wondered as he once talked with me about his personal accomplishments amongst his colleagues... if he felt the same pride when he put humpy dumpty back together again...
if he felt that same glow when he put shattered limbs, flesh, and soul back together again.
Mother called me last week to tell me that my uncle was so upset, that he couldn't ski anymore, he tore his retina.
I can't ski - too weak.
Wonder if he can operate anymore.
God thing?
I went to a Healthcare Design Conference last week and had a blast listening to the case studies presented by design professionals solving problems in our hospitals and healthcare facilities. These people have the patients, doctors, and hospital staff as primary focus. It was like... here is the problem, and here are our constraints, and this is how we solved it and look at the result Whoo Hoo!
The breakouts presented by the academia though...
I wonder about those published studies. (Skeptic)
But... I have a medical library card... and am glad to use it for you! Just ask!
There is always another way