Mr. Sesno:
For the patient, what matters most?
Dr. Bentz:
Quality care.
Mr. Sesno:
And I think the fact that you are--you’re not a
horse-and-buggy operation anymore. You’re not a
ballpoint-pen operation anymore--that you’re using
the state-of-the-art in all of the aspects of health
care that gives them confidence when they walk out
of the office. But we saw you in your office there,
and you told us that in a sense, you, and a lot of
doctors like you, can’t afford this.
Dr. Bentz:
That’s a--cost is a big issue, and I think--and I’m
not alone. I think there are many people--I
reiterate, in my age group--who have been in
medicine for a number of years, and they have a
decision to make. They have to either--you can
either--as my father would say, "You can stand there
and shuffle your feet and wring your hands, or you
can do something about it." I did. I transitioned my patients into a practice that has electronic health
records and moved on to an institution that had all
of the things I needed to continue to do health
care, like palm pilots and all the computer support
I could possibly need.