Lemons to lemonade. Why I remain in practice

Physicians face spiraling decreases in reimbursement; continued unfunded mandates requiring them to expend money and increasing time on initiatives without proven value, and upgrades to their EHR (electronic health record) that mean more time entering data in ever-greater detail that most of them feel benefit neither their patients nor them. They are portrayed in the media as being incompetent, money-hungry, uncaring, arrogant, all the while walking around with targets on their back for the ever-increasing number of trial attorneys looking to cash in the tort system of medical malpractice. Change is inevitable. Buffeted as they are by the winds of change, the author remains optimistic that as long as there are those of them who can remember why they chose this career in the first place, their profession will survive.