No wonder physicians are demoralized, leaving the profession early, and joining labor unions. They are being enslaved by managed care masters and HMOs, while the concept of managed competition is destroying the medical profession. Yet, it’s the American public, all of us as ultimate patients, who have the most to lose. The concept of managed […]
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In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand firm like a rock.Thomas Jefferson The Corporate Practice of Medicine One hears repeatedly that managed care penetration in health care delivery continues unabated; that it continues to interpose itself in the medical decision-making process erstwhile reserved to the patient and his physician; and
The Cardinal Virtues It has been written by the great thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition that the chief moral virtues — the four cardinal virtues — are courage (or fortitude), temperance, justice, and prudence. According to the modern philosopher Mortimer J . Adler, the four cardinal virtues are the virtues which constitute the moral
The Cardinal Virtues It has been written by the great thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition that the chief moral virtues — the four cardinal virtues — are courage (or fortitude), temperance, justice, and prudence. According to the modern philosopher Mortimer J . Adler, the four cardinal virtues are the virtues which constitute the moral
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death.Revelation 6:8 At the peak of his reign in A.D. 540, after accomplishing major political, judicial, and military successes, Justinian’s empire was struck by the old enemy of mankind, one that not even Justinian could conquer: pestilential disease. The
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