To the Editor:
I read with great interest Dr. Henry Buchwald’s article about patient care quality, surgeon dedication and administration woes [“The Corruption of Care,” August 2022, page 1]. I am a former liver transplant surgeon who left academic surgery in 2003, and restarted a general/vascular surgery practice in a small town in North Carolina. I found the political issues relating to hospital administration suffocating and impossible to navigate. At age 66, I retired from