THE DEMISE OF MODERN MEDICINE AND GASTROENTEROLOGY

A country that once led technological development in health care now l eads the charge back to the cave, from which it took mankind 2 million years to emerge. The problems in U.S. health care are not simple. The refore, there are no simple solutions. True health-care reform can be accomplished only via improved and unbiased public education, identifi cation of the role for primary care, and the need for sub- and sub-sub specialties. Government has an important role, but even more important ly, as a nation, our priorities for rewards require careful reevaluati on. Suppliers and consumers must sit down at the same table, realizing that basic health care is not responsive to the usual supply and dema nd theories proposed by economists. Only then can health care reform b e considered a positive change.