The rape of emergency medicine revisited

Is medicine a profession or a business?

“…James Keaney, MD, has written eloquently about this in his book, The Rape of Emergency Medicine, in 1992. 5 This trend towards the corporatization of physician practices now involves many other specialties. Other stakeholders in health-care delivery are healthcare facilities including hospitals, nursing homes, long -term care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, as well as a large number of outpatient facilities such as imaging centers and surgery centers.…”