{"id":66639,"date":"2026-07-17T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66639"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:50:53","slug":"doctors-are-not-paid-to-return-you-to-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66639","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Are Not Paid To Return You To Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Doctors_Are_Paid.jpg\" alt=\"Doctors Are Paid\" width=\"346\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Doctors_Are_Paid.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Doctors_Are_Paid-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I heard a doctor describe much medical practice as a game of &#8216;match up&#8217; &#8211; &#8220;You give me your symptoms, I&#8217;ll give you some drugs to suppress those systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The broken system profits from your illness \u2014 not your health. Doctors get paid for repeat visits for prescriptions while you stay sick.<\/p>\n<p>What if Doctors didn&#8217;t get paid until the patient was healed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a doctor describe much medical practice as a game of &#8216;match up&#8217; &#8211; &#8220;You give me your symptoms, I&#8217;ll give you some drugs to suppress those systems.&#8221; The broken system profits from your illness \u2014 not your health. Doctors get paid for repeat visits for prescriptions while you stay sick. What if Doctors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors Are Not Paid To Return You To Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66641,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions\/66641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}