Slippery Slopes and Landing on Your Feet

Huesch talks about the slippery slope, which isn't flat even at the beginning. It all starts almost immediately. As social animals humans learn quickly from peers, colleagues, and friends. People learn very fast in response to the internal and external pressures to produce income. Health care reform, since the beginning of 2014, offers a tremendous opportunity for some physicians to get with the program or decide they've had enough. Sure, with the increases in patient demand for health care resulting from the Affordable Care Act's many provisions, it's a bad time for some physicians to transition to other careers or cut back on patient care.