Doctors everywhere are under the cosh

It’s not just Irish doctors becoming disillusioned with their lot, as a crop of new books on the US health system has revealed to Dr Muiris Houston. It’s bordering on understatement to say that Irish doctors are disillusioned. Hospital doctors starved of resources, GPs struggling to make ends meet, junior doctors who cannot wait to leave the system — it’s not a pretty picture. But it’s not just here that doctors feel under the cosh. Some recently published books and a finely written piece in the Atlantic magazine paint a less than rosy picture of American medicine. Assembly line In…