by Caitlin Kenney

On Friday's podcast, we asked you to tell us who a patient most closely resembles in our current health care system. Michael V. has an answer:

A patient is a student.

He is a consumer when choosing a school to go to. Once he's enrolled in school, he hands over his authority to the teacher who knows "best" how to train/teach him a particular discipline. He pays the school/teacher, but has very little say over how he is taught.

The fiduciary model of medicine is wrong, but so is the open market, consumer model...in my opinion.