A former colleague from Canada who practiced medicine with me here in the States never hesitated to make one thing clear to me: He couldn’t wait to get back. It wasn’t the cultural life that he missed, nor was it the ex-girlfriend I always suspected he pined for. It was the medicine. “It’s different,” he would say wistfully, without elaborating. “Practicing medicine is just different over there.” A study published this month in the journal Health Affairs made me think of my colleague again and offered one likely possibility for his return to Canada: There, he had more time to focus on his patients. Specialists solicited hundreds from doctors ivate practices over the United States and Canada how much time they went through every day with safety net providers and other outsider payers, finding data for cases that were denied or mistakenly paid, settling inquiries regarding protection inclusion for professionally prescribed medications or analytic tests, and recording the diverse str...
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