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...Relman said that traditionally, physicians would sacrifice financial interests for their patients, while those who tried to turn medicine into a profit-earning business were labeled charlatans and quacks...
...last two decades, the growth of the biomedical industry has made health care more commercial, and doctors have become more competitive as specialization within the profession increased, Relman said...
...federal government has encouraged this free-market approach to medicine, Relman said. In 1975, the Supreme Court declared antitrust laws applicable to the medical profession, encouraging competition among physicians, he said...
...result, Relman said, is that doctors are gaining a large financial stake in their own practice--a conflict of interest that would have never occurred under the old physician's code of ethics...
...health care is not a business then we must not allow our physicians to be businessmen and our hospitals to be businesses," Relman said...