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Lani could you please post the link - it was not in your post.
You raise thought provoking issues. A yard stick at the "corporate" level of private medine must be profit, which is not an automatic private good public bad, far from it - but does raise questions as to how the provision of medical services can be guarded against the implementation in finely balanced situations of the more profitable treatment scenario, and that creeping into a wider malaise. If doctors come to be individually valued for their profit contribution, and it be a requirment of their employment, - and we all need to be valued - what consequences might be forseen? Market creation could be fired by all sorts of subtle pressures from different directions, and potentially backed by enormous funding and marketing potential by medical related industries including the pharmacuetical industry. The human need for fairness, weakness of envy, desire to protect family in all its subtle shades in such emotive areas as disease and survival, must be a fertile landscape for a marketing organisation, who have to rely on the product information they are given so justify and beleiving their stance... and so it goes down and round in cirlces that we have witnessed through history at many levles. There are so many examples in history of the consequences of subtle and cohesive negative influences on good people working in disparate areas to the same aim producing outcomes to which none of them would have subscribed individually. Human weakness, and we are all prone. Enron might be a topical example.
I vaguley recall I think that "performance" in the UK is in part measured in terms of chemo given, which in a differnent way raises if correct similar issues.
RB.
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