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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Corporate Healthcare: A Failing System

By James K. Elsey, MD, FACS
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I recently attended a meeting where a focus group of randomly selected people was assembled to opine on a wide variety of topics of common public concern. A series of questions came up regarding their perceptions of the medical profession and the current American healthcare system. Alarmingly, almost to a person, the feedback was negative.

The people in attendance complained of the dehumanized features of corporate medicine where they felt like a commodity and a cold