Patients, Paperwork, and Politics

Eeric Truumees, MD

Eeric Truumees, MD "You did not enter this profession to be bean-counters and paper-pushers. You entered this profession to be healers—and that's what our healthcare system should let you be." —President Barack Obama, June 2009, speaking to the American Medical Association (AMA) "Obamacare … is going to be amazingly destructive. … I have a friend who's a doctor, and he said to me, 'Donald, I never saw anything like it. I have more accountants than I have nurses. It's a disaster.

Setting AAOS Now Straight

Dear Dr. Truumees: I read with great interest your editorial in the March issue of AAOS Now. I believe you did a very good job addressing integrative medicine and espousing a common sense approach, which I think is too often lost with most orthopaedic practitioners. Your article was balanced and pointed out integrative medicine approaches that are being used by orthopaedists in this country.