Medicine Backwards

Intro Choir Patients are losers, Losing care Finance treadmills, High-time to redesign care. Verse 1: Caring systems, now corporate deals, Doctors trusted, cogs in wheels, Chasing profits, in cruel ordeals, Corporate leaders, leaderless C-suites. Pre-Chorus: Medicine backwards, where did we go wrong? From healing hearts, now “profit is king”. Treadmill medicine, bean counters' delight, Burnout factories, losing our mite. Chorus: High costs, denials, bureaucratic maze, Patients, doctors, lost in a daze. Efficiency craze trumps empathy, effectiveness, Heart of medicine, evaporates in a haze. Verse 2: Endless digital documentation, prior authorizations, Patient’s long wait times, lost in a daze. Dysfunctional EMRs, digital data overload, Doctors lost in diagnostic codes. Pre-Chorus: Medicine backwards, where did we go wrong? From healing hearts, now “profit is king”. Treadmill medicine, bean counters' delight, Burnout factories, losing our mite. Chorus: High costs, denials, bureaucratic maze, Patients, doctors, lost in a daze. Efficiency craze trumps empathy, effectiveness, Heart of medicine, evaporates in a haze. Bridge: Doctor-patient bonds, now a relic of the past, Transactional care, when will it die? MBA C-suites, profit-driven lite-care, Soul-less tyranny, lost in the dark. Verse 3: Burnout factories, dying dreams, Physicians overwhelmed, asking why. Ethical dilemmas, under corporate mandate, The joy of healing, a lost cry. Outro 1: Patients pay the high prices, a costly game, Denied care treatments, it’s a crying shame. High costs, insurance denials, who’s to blame? In this broken system, it’s all the same. Outro 2: To move forward, we reclaim, The heart of medicine, heal the pain. Restore trust, and break chains, For a future where care reigns supreme. Extro Chorus Medicine, losing its soul Medicine is losing Soul-less, soul-less Now's time, to be re-born