Publisher's Synopsis
This is my observations of the business of medicine from about 1970 to the present. The change from a physician completing his medical education and hanging up his shingle in front of an office to Corporate Medicine and Yelp has been profound.The patient is now a consumer and marketed in the sale of nursing homes, hospitals and insurance companies.The patient is now a commodity and the physician is a collateral commodity.The interests of the corporation are given precedence over the interests of the patient and the doctor.Informed consent used to involve a conversation between the doctor and the patient.The lawyer, the actuary, the insurance company, the Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid, the State Medical Board, are now additional stake holders with more say in the process than the patient and the doctor. That is only an opinion. The facts are hidden in black boxes and high levels of security under the many masks of "trade secrets."
