Dr. Robert Lamberts is a doc whose Musings of a Distractible Mind: Thoughts of a Moderately Strange Primary Care Physician offers an insider’s view into the day-to-day life of a doctor who wears a size 10 1/2 shoe and does not like spinach.  What if, he wonders, other parts of our lives were run like our medical care is?  Starting from the time when school kids wake up in the morning, Dr. Lamberts and his distractible mind start musing:

“The first thing that happens in your day is that your alarm fails to go off,” he begins. “Although you have major things happening, nobody ever has explained to you exactly what you are supposed to do and when. You watch the morning TV show and it seems that some experts say you should go to school while others say you should avoid school at all cost.  You call a friend who says that she knows someone who went to school and it destroyed her liver.  Another friend goes to school every day and is just fine.  Continue reading “What if other parts of life were like health care?” →