Andy Stumpf

My mom is turning 70 soon.

It seems if my brother and I don't go to every appointment or we slack off for a few years, someone tries to take advantage of our sweet ma and pa.

What advice or thoughts do you have balancing parents health, making sure they are in good hands and not calling out of work to go with them to each appointment?

How do I balance this?

Well,

Medicine, doctors are – it's a community comprised of individuals.

I have had fantastic experiences with doctors and I have had horrible experiences with doctors.

I don't think I've encountered a doctor yet that was like – had malicious intent and was carving people up or like killing people in an emergency room to try to like live out one of their fantasies.

But –

there's a bell curve for every occupation.

There are people who are at the peak and there are people who have fallen off on both sides.

And every community has their top performers and every community has their lowest performers as well.

And when it comes to medicine, or actually I guess just in general life, I hope that most people encounter those at the top of their game, not at the bottom.

So it's variable.

And I have found that

The vast, vast, vast majority of doctors get into it for the right reasons.

The Hippocratic Oath.

First, do no harm.

They want to help people.

They're passionate about what they do.