Marc Siegel writes on medicine as it should be:

In an age of impersonal medicine, marked by bottom-line thinking and rushed doctor-patient interactions, some doctors still buck the trend — the way Soroff did — and go to extraordinary lengths to give their patients personal care. Some let patients call them at home, day or night; some keep their offices open late; some find other ways to show that a patient’s outcome matters deeply to them.

Many of the examples of “ideal” doctors that Dr. Siegel cites are academic physicians – who are somewhat detached from real world medicine. Can his model survive outside the sheltered realm of academia?