When the buzz words of medical practice change, they reflect a change in how it works. Today's medicine now looks at hospitals as factories and office visits as economic transactions. Patients are no longer patients but consumers or customers. Doctors and nurses are considered providers.
Reducing medicine to economics makes a mockery of the bond between the healer and the sick. Further treatment protocols are created subjectively and work as factory blueprints far too often. Who is left to listen and care to us when we're sick?
