Here, Mark discusses parallels between the Industrial Revolution, the bespoke customization of bike frames, and modern medical practice: more patients and a transformational experience.
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It will be decades until society swings back away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and the price we’ll pay in the interim will eventually be rationing, death counseling, and other warm and fuzzy attributes of a so-called communal society. Heck, this makes its opposite, the so-called “greed” of rugged individualists, seem timid in comparison.
Here, Mark discusses parallels between the Industrial Revolution, the bespoke customization of bike frames, and modern medical practice: more patients and a transformational experience.
Think like a virus when considering open possibilities in taking control of your future.
People, not institutions, are capable of morality. At best, institutions are amoral. At worst, they are immoral.
I argue that hospitals, as institutions, are at best amoral. At the same time, they are driven by profit and their executives bear no true downside risk, no risk of going negative in terms of personal liability.
Individuals, physicians in this discussion, are capable of morality and my experience is that most are highly moral. Sure, there are some bad apples, there are in any subset of society.
Why should hospitals be run by nonphysicians?
It will be decades until society swings away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and a high price will be paid in the interim.