‘He may be biased but he's right.’
That is what my wife remarked as we left a screening of ‘Sicko’, having watched it with a group of health professionals, public health, health policy, and practising doctors. We even saw the transplant surgeons and their spouses coming from the theatre. None seemed surprised at what they saw. How can we be? Doctors have the most intimate experience with the system we ostensibly control. Watching the film, I became angry at ‘them’. However, as a practising physician, I am an obvious co-conspirator. Of course, we don't control the system at all, even if we work as medical directors of insurance companies. The medical director of the insurance company in the film admitted that he doesn't sign most of the letters …