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EDUCATION AND DEBATE: Thomas G Rundall, Stephen M Shortell, Margaret C Wang, Lawrence Casalino, Thomas Bodenheimer, Robin R Gillies, Julie A Schmittdiel, Nancy Oswald, and James C Robinson As good as it gets? Chronic care management in nine leading US physician organisations BMJ 2002; 325: 958-961 [Full text]

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As good as it gets?

Eileen Orr, 29609   (18 November 2002)

As good as it gets? 18 November 2002
Eileen Orr, Patient Retired, 29609 Send response to journal: Re: As good as it gets?	This reads as if these institutions are accepting more patients than is financially or humanly possible for them to treat thereby shortchanging themselves and all or some of their patients. Doctors cannot be expected to understand nutrition along with all the ailments we present, can they? One does expect that these doctors and their families are eating the same foods available to the rest of us with little or no understanding that fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics and other additives have created a food supply that's making us all sick. Along with the power of pharmaceutical companies providing drugs with terrifying side effects, we, and they, are getting sicker and weaker. If some of you would take the time to read krispin.com, you would discover that many of the illnesses, or symptoms, you are treating are entirely unnecessary because they're occurring in malnourished and vitamin and mineral deficient patients. NOTE: My only connection with krispin.com is that I am a reader of her site. Competing interests:   None declared