But a more important reason, I think, is that medical students increasingly view primary care doctors as harried and overworked.
Now harried doctors are stockpiling blood and drafting weekend medics as Venezuela braces for what the opposition is calling the "D-Day" of humanitarian aid.
Aiming at targets worth aiming at, (HMO's, harried doctors allotting seven minutes to a patient, no matter the illness), Anonymous stops short, winding up with a sketch and a blackout line.
They are standardizing basic procedures to help reduce errors and condensing long-winded practice guidelines that harried doctors don't read into simple checklists integrated into daily work flow.
This isn't about bandwidth or silicon gate speeds, but sick people in emergency rooms who can't quite describe what's happening to them, being treated by tired, harried doctors who don't remember to fill out drug response reports, and nurses who don't have the time to take vital signs at exactly the 20-minute intervals that the testing requires.
Also, patients themselves often demand the drugs they have seen advertised, and overworked, harried doctors frequently go along.
They offer long, relaxed consultations with their customers (exactly the sort of "good bedside manner" that harried modern doctors struggle to provide).
"We just have to keep calm and go from room to room to find out who is there," said a harried Australian doctor who happened to be here on vacation.
At the unfortunate cost of narrative suspense, Vincent discloses her biases early: like a growing number of Americans, she's fairly certain that America's love affair with modern-day psychiatry is nothing less than a subprime crisis, with the F.D.A., the DSM, Big Pharma and your harried family doctor in on the scam.
However the patients in our study reported unsatisfactory relationships with their doctors, who were often perceived as too harried, and described the consultations as lost opportunities to receive support.
