Teachers Feel Physicians' Pain
This appeared in today's Corpus Christi Caller-Times... My morning routine goes something like this: first, start the coffeemaker and feed the cat. Next, go outside and fetch the newspaper. Third, pour the coffee and slide back into bed to read the Caller-Times, starting with the obituaries and ending with the opinion columnists. I save the editorial pages for last because they are so entertaining and provocative. Ann McFeatters and Tom Whitehurst make me laugh. Leonard Pitts makes me think. Charles Krauthammer usually makes me mad, but I took special note of his column this past Saturday. “Doctors’ reasons for quitting” was the headline. He wrote of the growing number of physicians who are leaving the profession, fed up with government interference in the practice of medicine. Krauthammer detailed the complaint of classmates in his medical school class 40 th -year reunion report as “not financial, but vocational—an incessant interference with their work, a