New doctors are not kind to their predecessors. Here’s why.

I had the good fortune of practicing family medicine from the 70s to the early 10s. It was the Golden Age. After doing a family practice residency in a community hospital and serving a short stint as an assistant residency director, I started out in my practice that lasted almost 40 years.
Here is the story of how I got the ball …
New doctors are not kind to their predecessors. Here’s why.





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