Should Corporations Practice Medicine Confronts the Most Controversial Patient and Physician Issues of the Century A Wake Up Call to the Public and the Health Care Professional

Corporate management of the sick and disabled has finally reached a critical point. Although most Americans are finally recognizing how oppressive a profit-oriented socialized health care system can be, we foolishly continue to pay for some twenty federally supported health care programs while too many can no longer afford their own care. Surprisingly, that same type of commercialization and lack of standards confronted our country at the end of the nineteenth century. The 1910 Flexner Report warned us about advertising, competition, and money incentives, saying: ...promotion of medicine as a business, rather than an ethical profession, resulted in the general interest of the public being lost. Should Corporations Practice Medicine? suggests a more humanistic practice of medicine thats performed by professionally licensed specialists; but only if organized medicine can or will assume the professional leadership required.Krismer, John R. is the author of 'Should Corporations Practice Medicine Confronts the Most Controversial Patient and Physician Issues of the Century A Wake Up Call to the Public and the Health Care Professional' with ISBN 9781588515186 and ISBN 1588515184.