Medical Practice: From Cottage Industry to Corporate Practice
The American medical profession faces much alteration in what they do as practicing physicians that has been felt as an impingement upon their professional autonomy. As more and more physicians transition from private practice controlled by them and their
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e Corporatization of American Health Care The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
The Corporatization of American Health Care
J. Warren Salmon • Stephen L. Thompson
The Corporatization of American Health Care The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
J. Warren Salmon School of Public Health University of Illinois Chicago, IL USA
Stephen L. Thompson
College of Professional Studies and Advancement National Louis University Chicago, IL USA
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Karen H. Thompson (1947–2016) and Dr. Bernard H. Baum (1926–2008).
Preface
The American healthcare system frequently has been called a “non-system”; yet we clearly interpret it very much as a coherent system—it is a system designed, much the same way as other businesses in America are organized, for private profit- making and return on investment. We have relied heavily upon news sources as academic writing lags on current topics of concern. At times, we may generalize, or seem abstract, in presenting points, since we have absorbed an immense amount of knowledge to be sorted out, synthesized, and presented over the past history of 150 years. Much of what we focus upon contains numerous moving targets, changing weekly, often hidden or obscured from the public’s attention. With the onset of the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, the blatant weaknesses in our healthcare structure and with the populations, not historically well served by the current system, have
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