Dr. AWOL

Doctors like to complain a lot. But, when it comes to contributing to the solution for what ails Sick care USA, Inc, they frequently are nowhere to be seen. Most "are just too busy seeing patients".

To be fair, there is an element of truth to the claim, trying to keep ahead of a very tight curve, and, particularly when it comes to participation in digital health technologies, deployment and rules, technologists and industry don't make it easy to collaborate. What's more, startup mania and the accelerator world, in general, are not particularly user friendly to practicing doctors given their schedules and workload.