I Have Been Talking with Your Doctor: Fifty doctors talk about the healthcare crisis and the doctor-patient relationship

I interviewed 50 doctors using about four pages of questions developed based on the professional research literature on doctoring and my personal professional experience working with doctors. The interviews lasted between 30 minutes and two hours. I sat down with the doctor interviewees one by one. They talked I typed. They met with me in between patients taking breaks to answer emails texts phone calls or deal with emergencies or after hours on time off during paperwork time or while eating a rushed meal. It is also worth mentioning that some of the doctor interviewees experienced their own traumas close to the time of our interview such as their own illness or that of someone close to them or the death of a family member or close friend. Several of them experienced the death of their own child. Remarkably they all kept working each one saying that helping others helped them to cope with their own pain. After completing the interviews I am left with an even deeper understanding of the health care crisis. It is my hope that these interviews will expose an intimate portrait of the gravity and urgency of our healthcare crisis. It is with the utmost gratitude admiration and humility that I thank my doctor interviewees for their help with this task.