⚠️ SICKCARE — Part IV: The Clinician’s Dilemma (Healing Inside a System That Depends on Recurrence)
Most clinicians didn’t enter healthcare to manage recurrence. They came to help people heal. Yet many now practice inside systems that reward throughput, compliance, and return visits more than resolution. This reflection explores the quiet dilemma clinicians face—trying to do meaningful healing work within structures that depend on patients not fully getting better.
Most clinicians didn’t enter healthcare to manage recurrence. They came to help people heal. Yet many now practice inside systems that reward throughput, compliance, and return visits more than resolution. This reflection explores the quiet dilemma clinicians face — trying to do meaningful healing work within structures that depend on patients not fully getting better.