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Wal-Mart can be good for your health
The medical establishment is opposed to drop-in clinics in Wal-Marts and other retail stores. But self-interested doctors need to get over their archaic ways of doing business.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. [2008-02-19]

  • @dlmk1950

    Businesses, including but limited to WalMart, don't operate on the concept of doing good for others. I agree.

    But often businesses--and other enterprises--wind up doing good for others even though that was not their primary motivation.

    Are the for-profit sickness enterprises, otherwise know as hospitals, private clinics, free-standing ER's, etc. motivated by doing good for others? Are quickie oil changes? No, but almost inadvertently they do (good for others.)

    One change I would like to see made is for the media to stop calling the medical industry the "Health Care" industry and call it what it actually is: the "Sickness Care" industry.

    Virtually any innovation that impinges on the physician-monopoly is sickness care is a positive development.

    -- FredrickBernanke
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    Monday, February 18, 2008 07:50 PM
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