And don't forget the Mayo Clinic. FWIW:
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/07/22/mayo-clinic-ceo-medicare-payment-model-is-a-catastrophe/And then there's this too:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124843884971778899.html ... I like the quotation from Osler. IMHO such principles still motivate medical students until they grapple with student debt or the realities of their first mortgage after so many years of relative poverty ;-) That's why I think we need to make sure physicians are wealthy. Make $ a given, then re-appoint physicians as agents for patients and crafty diagnosticians rather than tickers of boxes to order every investigation in sight. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
