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Navigating Changes while Advocating for the Physician Community and Safety of Patients
PRESIDENT’S PAGE
PRAYUS TAILOR, MD
MSD President Prayus Tailor, MD is a Nephrologist who practices with Nephrology Associates in Newark and Wilmington.
It is a great and humbling honor to be selected to serve as the president of our 227-year-old Medical Society.
Over two centuries, we have seen the way in which we deliver health care change dramatically. Telehealth, the topic of this year’s annual meeting, is just one example of this change. While the way in which we practice medicine continues to evolve, the reasons why we practice medicine have not. A survey
of over 17,000 doctors conducted this year by The Physicians Foundation most satisfying about medicine are the patient relationships and the intellectual stimulation.
The changes in medicine have been both rewarding and at the same time onerous. The Affordable Care Act has given millions access to health care. Yet simultaneously we see many of our colleagues leaving their practices and even the profession, unable to stay
in reimbursement, frustrations over
administrative paperwork, and the subsequent usurping of valuable time spent with patients. This gap, the increase in patients with a reduction in physicians, will be exacerbated in Delaware if our for the Delaware Institute for Medical Education and Research (DIMER) program which was nearly defunded this year. Without this program, our aspiring medical students will have the most in this country as Delaware would be the only state without a medical school or an needs to continue to promote medicine
as a noble and worthwhile career to its students. This program is vital to health of Delaware and the Medical Society
will be working tirelessly to make sure it continues.
Our Surgeon General just reported nearly 21 million American’s suffer from substance abuse disorders. The medical management of pain has been implicated as a target on the battleground of this
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