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Relman: I'm totally opposed to them. Unionization is for workers in an industry. Medicine is not an industry. Medicine is not a business. Medicine is a profession and the economics and ethics are entirely different. It's very sad to see that medicine is being treated more and more...
Relman: I think there are many reasons. The main reason I think is simply the tremendous economic burden that health care now carries. Health care is the second largest industry in the country. There are tremendous pressures on the part of government to control the costs, there are temptations to...
Relman: I think there are two general approaches that have to be taken. One is that government and the insurance companies and all third parties that pay for health care have to remove the perverse economic incentives that stimulate doctors to overuse medical technology. Doctors are only human and theyrespond...
Secondly, the profession has to pull up its socks and take more responsibility for monitoring what it does. The profession has to be more critical of itself, it has to set up more rigorous systems for evaluating its own technology, making rigorous decisions about what's justified and what isn...
Peace Is Our Profession is an anthology that combines recollections and poetry by men and women who fought in Viet Nam or demonstrated against it. The book smolders with old indignations; yet there are notable flashpoints. From Herbert Woodward Martin's A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary...