These suggestions will fix America's healthcare system.
1) Have sex with each other - Obviously, some doctors have sex with each other; they share a common interest. But you should all have sex with each other. Or, at least, if you're not actually having sex with each other, you should be consumed by a need to have sex with each other, to the point that you leave the emergency room operating table to express your feelings and act on your desire. I think I speak for all patients when I say: it's cool. We'll wait. We need that kind of passion in healthcare.
2) Bend the rules; Don't play by the book - Who says you should treat Adrenoleukodystrophy in a "conventional" way, or follow "standard" protocol? Squares, that's who. A doctor is half artist, half outlaw. Improvise, and don't let anyone mess with your creative mojo.
3) Lose the the forms and waiting rooms - You almost never see forms and waiting rooms on doctor shows, but that seems to be, like, 90% of one's time at the doctor. Lose all that stuff; it's not dramatic. Treat everything like an emergency, and rush us into an operating room while yelling directions to each other. Even if it's a routine checkup.
4) Work out more/Wear more makeup - A lot of you doctors are just not good-looking enough. Your humble correspondent's doc is smart, kind, and thorough. But he looks like Pete Seeger. That's not going to cut it. Now, no one's suggesting elective surgeries (although it's an idea) but you could hit the gym for, say, two hours a day and get really buff. And, especially if you're a female doctor (but also if you're male) make sure someone applies your makeup expertly. There's no more important time to look beautiful than when you're saving a life.
5) Don't let people die - You know how many people die in hospitals? When doctors are right there? It's ridiculous. Don't let people die, unless they're evil. Or have an important life lesson to tell us right before they expire, like "you don't know what you got 'til it's gone." If you don't have a life lesson, you don't die. That should be a rule.
