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Healthcare Upside Down – article in GSN
I came across this article in General Surgery News. You need to have an account to read it. It’s about how health care inthe United States has morphed from patient-centered to business-centered. Even the words are changing. It’s sad to think of the young people who entered the field of medicine thinking that they would be helping people be healthy and happy but ended up just helping people make more money.
https://www.ormanagement.net/Opinion/Article/05-24/Healthcare-Upside-Down/73778
JUNE 24, 2024
Healthcare Upside Down
By Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD
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Each of the 14 book chapters begins with a quote and a whimsical story. The second chapter, “The Language of Change,” starts with a quote from George Orwell’s “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future.” The chapter analyzes how past perversions of language are the antecedents for the realities of current healthcare. Healthcare facilities today are often called “firms”; “triage” is now not used to categorize severity of affliction but to maximize professional time for profit; “staff” relegates authority for healthcare decisions to a group subject to administration; “provider” eliminates professional distinctions; and, most grievously, the patient is now designated the “client.”
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