Toward medical dystopia.
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چکیده
I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks. Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing doctors to sacrifice their independent professional medical judgment and their integrity.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
دوره 75 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013