Dr. Carol Paris

[DeSwiss]

Uploaded by Singlepayeraction on Mar 29, 2012


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Dr. Carol Paris moves her medical practice from Maryland to New Zealand. She tells us why.
See story at singlepayeraction.org
Interview at Union Station, Washington, D.C.
March 27, 2012 8 am

She’s closing her practice.

And moving it to New Zealand.

“I’m so tired and weary of trying to practice sane, passionate, good medicine in this insane health care system in the United States,” Paris said last month in an interview at Union Station before walking over to protest in front of the Supreme Court against the Obama health care law and for single payer. “It impairs my ability to practice in a way that is ethical and passionate. I have a few years left in me to practice. And I’ve decided see what it is like in another country. I have a couple of friends who are psychiatrists who have done a sabbatical in New Zealand. And they said they are so sad to be back in the United States practicing because it was so much more sane and caring in New Zealand. I’m going to see what it is like for my own mental health.”

“The insanity here is that we have a system of financing health care in this country that is all about profit for corporate America and not about the health care of the people,” Dr. Paris said. “It is opposed to the health care of the people of America. You can’t be about profit and be about a social service.”

“Every day, I spend more time helping my patients figure out how to game the system, how to maneuver the system of health care insurance,” Dr. Paris said. “Maybe they can afford to see me and maybe afford medicine, but they can’t afford therapy. So, I’m robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

“Any recommendations I make for my new patients is based on the assumption that they will have no health insurance tomorrow.”

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!! n/t

[freshwest]

2. Thanks DeSwiss

[enough]

3. I've been wondering how doctors stand to work in this system.

Whatever expertise they have is subordinated to the corporations' profit motive. In some ways they are the least free agents in the whole system.

[truth2power]

4. Thank you for posting this, DeSwiss. A for-profit healthcare system is an obscenity. n/t