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Why corporate healthcare is stealing the soul of medicine and the ethics of healing.

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Why corporate healthcare is stealing the soul of medicine and the ethics of healing. Anyone who has visited a doctor lately has noticed the entire framework has changed.  While there are still a few independent groups of doctors who wish to care for people and help them with their problems, many of us have found that our favorite doctor now works for a large conglomerate hospital system or other entity. You no longer know the staff; your doctor is now practicing one size fits all medicine. Beginning at the primary care level, the new game is to make a diagnosis Read More »

Corporate Giants are buying your doctors practices; Is this good for the quality and cost of healthcare?

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Corporate Giants are buying your doctor’s practices; Is this good for the quality and cost of healthcare? Unless you have never gone to a doctor, it is very likely that your doctor’s practice is now part of a larger corporation and that the people you knew who worked for them are no longer doing so. Corporations such as Aetna, Summit Medical Group which is now part of CityMD and your local hospital system has likely been opening walk-in clinics everywhere. Many of the larger groups are especially interested in the practices that serve many Medicare patients, as this is where Read More »